So, Got a brand new Visiontek R9 280x. Hooked it up to my system. Once everything was booted up I received no signal from my monitors, I used Dvi as well as a display port connection on the card and still received nothing on my monitors. I took the card out and tried booting up using just onboard graphics. My system booted just fine. So I put my old card, a 6870. And once again everything booted up just fine. So I tried unplugging all unnecessary hard drives, fans, and ram sticks. Booted system up with new gpu and still no signal from monitor.
My system uses a 630 Watt Rosewill PSU, an i5 3450, and a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H.
Now I also put the new card into my brothers system. I don't remember 100% all of his components, however I do know that he uses a 500 watt PSU, and normally uses a 550TI gpu.
I took out his old card, and put the R9 280x in his system and everything booted fine. I downloaded the drivers for the new card, and booted up skyrim just as a tester. Everything ran incredibly smooth.
The majority of the feedback i'm receiving indicates its my powersupply. I just want to triple-check that i'm not missing any details. I'm not the most amazing with computers just a gamer who wants to game!
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Alrighty fast-forward to now, got the card working in my system. Everything is connected and I have the drivers installed. They recognize the card as a 7900 series sometimes, other times they recognize the card as a r9 200 series. Regardless the card still doesn't seem to be working. Even with both monitors plugged into the gpu, (display-port and DVI) the system still seems to be using the on-board graphics.
When in games I'm getting about 5-10% of the frame rate that I should be for the card. I even ran 3dmarks benchmarks for giggles, My score for the last test was 3% of what the card should get. Out of curiosity I downloaded a couple temperature read programs, One of them was speedfan. All programs indicated my Graphics card was basically doing nothing, my cpu on the other-hand was running at 95-99 c.
At this point i'm assuming that its probably a bad card. But just in case I missed anything, anyone have any ideas?
My system uses a 630 Watt Rosewill PSU, an i5 3450, and a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H.
Now I also put the new card into my brothers system. I don't remember 100% all of his components, however I do know that he uses a 500 watt PSU, and normally uses a 550TI gpu.
I took out his old card, and put the R9 280x in his system and everything booted fine. I downloaded the drivers for the new card, and booted up skyrim just as a tester. Everything ran incredibly smooth.
The majority of the feedback i'm receiving indicates its my powersupply. I just want to triple-check that i'm not missing any details. I'm not the most amazing with computers just a gamer who wants to game!
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Alrighty fast-forward to now, got the card working in my system. Everything is connected and I have the drivers installed. They recognize the card as a 7900 series sometimes, other times they recognize the card as a r9 200 series. Regardless the card still doesn't seem to be working. Even with both monitors plugged into the gpu, (display-port and DVI) the system still seems to be using the on-board graphics.
When in games I'm getting about 5-10% of the frame rate that I should be for the card. I even ran 3dmarks benchmarks for giggles, My score for the last test was 3% of what the card should get. Out of curiosity I downloaded a couple temperature read programs, One of them was speedfan. All programs indicated my Graphics card was basically doing nothing, my cpu on the other-hand was running at 95-99 c.
At this point i'm assuming that its probably a bad card. But just in case I missed anything, anyone have any ideas?
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