Hey Everyone Looking To Purchasing The R9 295X2

[zazally]

Hello everyone. My Birthday is just around the corner, and I am looking to buy the R9 295X2 Radeon card. I know nothing about computers, I just like having one that can play games on max settings at 1080p. My current monitor is a BENQ 120hz 27 inch and I love it. I am currently using a radeon 7970 3 gig card overclocked edition, but I want to upgrade. I want to have a graphics card that can easily support 1440p resolution when I upgrade my monitor in the near future. I was wondering is it worth buying the R9 295X2? I was thinking that or 2 780ti's Nvidia SLI. I only have a Corsair 850 wat HX professional series power supply, and I don't really want to have to buy another power supply if I don't need to. My computer is your standard PC with no fancy extras. I have 1 SSD and 3 hard drives. I also use noctua NH-U14S CPU Cooler. Anyway I am worried if I go out and buy the Radeon 295X2 or 2 780ti's I wont have the right connectors, but I should. Anyway would love some feedback from more intelligent people please. Thank you so much for reading. Take care!

 

[zazally]

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[jshoop]

usually when you run things as administators the screens darken and show a pop up box saying "are you sure you want to do this" or whatever. i turned it off so it didnt darken, just asked the question. and the drivers were probably conflicting as well. those a great fps. i barely get 30fps on easy games (free ones also) on medium settings with my old radeon hd4890. im looking for an upgrade, probably to a 770 or 280x. now if i got the 295x2.....that would be amazing. even with the massive bottleneck i would have id still get over 60fps, the card would carry me

 

[zazally]

Also the GPU has A LOT of lights on it. It will light up a dark room very well. My case looks all red neon color ahaha. The Radeon name is very bright red the card is just amazing.

 

[mr91]

It isn't that big of a deal. You think it I should worry about it?

I would try switching to anther PCI Express slot, I've seen a similar issue before however your situation might be different.

Do you have 2x 16x 3.0 slots?

 

[mr91]

Should I disable intel (R) HD Graphics 4600? Or uninstall it under display adapters in device manager?

Disable integrated graphics in the bios.

 

[mr91]

I was getting black screens for a second while running programs as administrator. It would also turn my current desktop picture to just a plain black screen. I turned of UAC settings or whatever and I don't have this problem anymore. Also my drivers were not installing properly, but I fixed it by making sure all the registries were deleted, started safe mode, used driver sweeper and then everything worked perfectly. I am loving this card. I am constantly getting over 110 frames per second on every game I play max settings.

If you fixed the problem then you don't have a faulty PCI express slot.

Are you going to post the Crysis 3 video?

 

[unknownofprob]

Also the GPU has A LOT of lights on it. It will light up a dark room very well. My case looks all red neon color ahaha. The Radeon name is very bright red the card is just amazing.

That card is amazing haha, I am looking to get one, then Tri-fire it with my R9 290X, but I need a great PSU.

What kind of temps are you getting under load and idle?

 

[Mudit Rawat 07]

TBH I'd say you don't need to spend your money. The 7970 was and is great card with enough power to support gamin at high resolutions. I didn't read all the posts but what I've read is that the people said that this is good/bad long/short but really I don't think anyone said it is not required anyway it's up to you but if I were you I would save the money and instead go for Xbone or PS4 😛 Joke 😀

 

[zazally]

Hey mr91. I will do a Crysis video soon. Our internet sucks, and to upload 1080 videos will really screw us over. Australian problems. I will do one, just it will take a few days to do. I am currently replaying Far Cry 3. I am in love. Everything maxed, msaa x8 and I am getting a constant 110-120fps.

 

[mr91]

Hey mr91. I will do a Crysis video soon. Our internet sucks, and to upload 1080 videos will really screw us over. Australian problems. I will do one, just it will take a few days to do. I am currently replaying Far Cry 3. I am in love. Everything maxed, msaa x8 and I am getting a constant 110-120fps.

lol Sounds good take your time.

Far Cry 3 is a good game, I played it @ 1440p with 8x msaa and it looked spectacular.

 

[Free2play_noobs]

For 1080p or 1440p R9 295X2 is overkill,Better get GTX 770 4GB edition or R9 290 ,(R9 290 for me ,because lot of room for overclocking)

 

[mr91]

For 1080p or 1440p R9 295X2 is overkill,Better get GTX 770 4GB edition or R9 290 ,(R9 290 for me ,because lot of room for overclocking)

Try playing Crysis 3 maxed out with 8x msaa?

I'm sure you will not maintain a solid 60 fps with a single R9 290 even @ 1080p.

This is where a 295 x2 shines.

The Op has a 120 hz monitor and wants to play his games with over 60 fps, I'm sure the op is enjoying his card it's a beast!

 

[Eggz]

I just read every post in this thread for lolz and noticed that most of the posts were OP. Lolz. I would probably do the same thing, though, if spending more than $1,600 on a single PC component. More lolz. This thread is great 😀

As for PhysX on the CPU, don't do it, bro. That $hit will bog you down like mad! CPUs can't do graphics, no matter what people tell you. Your 4770k will turn into a super-skinny bottleneck if you're running PhysX on it with that card. Figure out some hack to get a dedicated PhysX card if you want PhysX. I'd recommend the 750 ti. It is fast enough to do PhysX for your R9 295x2, and it will likely be fast enough to do PhysX for your next upgrade as well. It's only $150, so it's a drop in the bucket for your system.

I can't wait to see that Crysis 3 video! That game is beautiful, even if it is short. Even with my superclocked 780 ti, I have to turn a couple things down a bit to run at 60 fps.

 

[zazally]

Also what is the best program to use while recording games? I want to do a Crysis 3 video. Thank you.

 

[zazally]

I don't understand what GPU maxed buffered frames or whatever option means in Far Cry 3. Should I have it off? Or should I have it at 5? I don't really notice a difference on any setting I chose. I tried all of them 1 through to 5.

 

[zazally]

Also my GPUZ will not show my fan speed or my RPM or whatever. Is that normal? My old card showed it.

 

[zazally]

Also in Far Cry 3 I see a lot of visuals that are constantly loading. Is this normal? For instance you can only see so far into the distance, and when you run you see more textures and stuff being constantly loaded. Is that normal?

 

[mr91]

I don't understand what GPU maxed buffered frames or whatever option means in Far Cry 3. Should I have it off? Or should I have it at 5? I don't really notice a difference on any setting I chose. I tried all of them 1 through to 5.

I would leave it at its default of 1 or turn it off.

I suggest you consider setting the Post FX to Medium because in my opinion the game looks better because Post fx makes the game blurry in my opinion. Try driving a boat or car with post effects on max and you will notice the blur on the dashboard and steering wheel.

 

[mr91]

Also what is the best program to use while recording games? I want to do a Crysis 3 video. Thank you.

I suggest you use the After burner and select FPS, Gpu usage, Vram usage and anything else that you like in the On Screen Display "OSD"

I'm not sure if After burner is the best recording software however it should work.

 

[mr91]

Also my GPUZ will not show my fan speed or my RPM or whatever. Is that normal? My old card showed it.

Fan speed should be displayed in the AFTER BURNER software.

If you're not getting the Fan speed in After burner then you might have a problem.

I suggest you check if there is any motherboard updates for your bios.

 

[mr91]

Also in Far Cry 3 I see a lot of visuals that are constantly loading. Is this normal? For instance you can only see so far into the distance, and when you run you see more textures and stuff being constantly loaded. Is that normal?

This is a good question, I tried Far Cry 3 maxed out @ 1080p with 8x MSAA.

With a little overclock I managed to get a solid 60 fps and I didn't experience any problems however in Assassins creed 1, I get the same problems you're experiencing and the odd time I get this problem in COD Ghosts when playing online.

This might be some sort of frame time Variance problem however I'm not sure, hopefully somebody else in this tread can offer a valid technical explanation for this phenomenon...

 

[17seconds]

Also my GPUZ will not show my fan speed or my RPM or whatever. Is that normal? My old card showed it.

Yes, AMD has locked users out of the fan controls on the 295x2.

Also what is the best program to use while recording games? I want to do a Crysis 3 video. Thank you.

Shadowplay.

 

[mr91]

Also my GPUZ will not show my fan speed or my RPM or whatever. Is that normal? My old card showed it.

Yes, AMD has locked users out of the fan controls on the 295x2.

Also what is the best program to use while recording games? I want to do a Crysis 3 video. Thank you.

Shadowplay.

Does shadow play work on AMD hardware?

I thought it was exclusive to Nvidia.

 

[Eggz]

Also what is the best program to use while recording games? I want to do a Crysis 3 video. Thank you.

Shadowplay.

This is this thread's best lolz so far!

:lol:

 

[zazally]

Safe link! I am getting 70 to 115 FPS with every setting turned on and maxed.