- Jan 25, 2016
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Yo again guys, I'm still not yet able to grab a new GPU like my previous thread says, since I've got a bit more saving to do.
Anyhow, is anyone else having this issue / have a way to solve it? If I'm gonna be stuck with this lower-level GPU for another month or so I mind as well get all I can out of it. For the past year or so my R7 250 2 GB DDR3 GPU has been a crap performer, unless I set it to -20% power limit and a cringe-worthy 500 MHz core clock + 700 MHz memory clock it gives me display driver crashes every few minutes, which with my games cause them to freeze, requiring me to restart the games. That's not even overclock for an r7 250, in fact, that's HALF the core clock's speed...
I highly doubt it's a problem with the PSU, as mine is a 750w Corsair TX Bronze (I got it recently to prepare for upgrades in the near future). And I had a Thermaltake 350w Bronze a month ago, same issue with either PSU.
I have the latest drivers, don't know if using a beta driver or reverting to an old one will work, but again this problem has persisted for over a year now and that's with driver updates every time a new one comes out unless there's a huge community warning not to use it for whatever reason.
My CPU is currently an FX-6300 (I'm going to re-do my whole PC in May or June, including a better motherboard and at least an i5 4690k, so don't hate on me for the CPU, it was a good deal when I was on a small budget...)
I'm just really confused as to why my GPU requires me to run it at only about 50%-70% of it's potential due to graphics drivers crashing consistently. This has never made sense to me, it's not like I'm blasting it to 1300 MHz core clock and expecting it to work, I'm just trying to get past the meager 500 MHz core clock...
This does not have to do with heat either, my GPU rarely reaches above 50-55 degrees Celsius when in games for long periods of time, these games including Bioshock Infinite, Team Fortress 2 (b4nny max frames config + lowest settings for highest FPS possible), Skyrim with mods, and Borderlands 2, to name a few. When I tried putting it all at max settings and running a bunch of games and GPU tests regardless of the crashes it never exceeded 58 degrees.
Tried overclocking/raising it with both the old Catalyst Control Center and MSI Afterburner, nether program makes a difference and my GPU still crashes when above 500 MHz core clock.
Thanks guys.
Anyhow, is anyone else having this issue / have a way to solve it? If I'm gonna be stuck with this lower-level GPU for another month or so I mind as well get all I can out of it. For the past year or so my R7 250 2 GB DDR3 GPU has been a crap performer, unless I set it to -20% power limit and a cringe-worthy 500 MHz core clock + 700 MHz memory clock it gives me display driver crashes every few minutes, which with my games cause them to freeze, requiring me to restart the games. That's not even overclock for an r7 250, in fact, that's HALF the core clock's speed...
I highly doubt it's a problem with the PSU, as mine is a 750w Corsair TX Bronze (I got it recently to prepare for upgrades in the near future). And I had a Thermaltake 350w Bronze a month ago, same issue with either PSU.
I have the latest drivers, don't know if using a beta driver or reverting to an old one will work, but again this problem has persisted for over a year now and that's with driver updates every time a new one comes out unless there's a huge community warning not to use it for whatever reason.
My CPU is currently an FX-6300 (I'm going to re-do my whole PC in May or June, including a better motherboard and at least an i5 4690k, so don't hate on me for the CPU, it was a good deal when I was on a small budget...)
I'm just really confused as to why my GPU requires me to run it at only about 50%-70% of it's potential due to graphics drivers crashing consistently. This has never made sense to me, it's not like I'm blasting it to 1300 MHz core clock and expecting it to work, I'm just trying to get past the meager 500 MHz core clock...
This does not have to do with heat either, my GPU rarely reaches above 50-55 degrees Celsius when in games for long periods of time, these games including Bioshock Infinite, Team Fortress 2 (b4nny max frames config + lowest settings for highest FPS possible), Skyrim with mods, and Borderlands 2, to name a few. When I tried putting it all at max settings and running a bunch of games and GPU tests regardless of the crashes it never exceeded 58 degrees.
Tried overclocking/raising it with both the old Catalyst Control Center and MSI Afterburner, nether program makes a difference and my GPU still crashes when above 500 MHz core clock.
Thanks guys.
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