- Oct 28, 2013
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specs:
i7 3770K
2x reference MSi R9 290's
EVGA SuperNOVA G2 1000w
Asus Sabertooth z77
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Ok, so I've had more than 99 issues with crossfire, and up until a 2nd windows reload, this DEFINITELY wasn't one...
Got a second r9 290 for christmas.
Everything went sh***y pretty fast, and because I thought it was a driver conflict, and me only partially deleting drivers beforehand I reinstalled windows.
During my 1st reload, everything went bad for a while as well. Eventually I learned it was most likely ULPS, so I disabled it and pow! My system was running amazingly, Was getting 150fps in bf4 at max, 70 at max in crysis, 180 in bl tps, etc....... Aaaaaaand then I started experiencing crashes, hangs, etc. when I rebooted my pc. It started off as games crashing, and then it turned into my whole computer hanging until I forced shut down via power button. I couldn't find a fix and relied on reloading. I reinstalled my windows for the 2nd time, last night. after I got everything installed, I reinstalled GPU-Z to see this....
(Main card - New card)
(2nd card - Old card)
my older card running like it's a 290x.
I bought that card brand new back in august, and haven't attempted to flash it's bios AT ALL.
The only thing I've actually done is overclocked it via MSi ab, and that doesn't even RELATE to flashing the card's bios. My new card I bought (used - like new) from a trusted vendor. Nothing sketchy at all.
So why & how exactly did this happen? As far as I know the reference MSi r9 290's didn't even have capability of being flashed to r90x's. I'm confused and I don't know what to do at this point. I can't run any games without them hanging, and my computer isn't stable anymore.
`I want to confirm that both of these cards work fine on their own, in the top slot, and the 2nd slot.
`Heat is not the issue at all, they both run with a maximum of 80c (which is perfectly safe for the r9 290(x) series.
`when I was running them overclocked in my 1st reload of windows I was running with a Power limit of 20+, core clock of 1050, mem clock of 1350, and fan speed at 75% (it never reached 85c) Although I'm not running them overclocked now.
`ULPS is disabled (through registry)
`I have the latest drivers
`When I installed windows, I installed with only one r9 290 in the system, and once I had all of the drivers installed, I then installed the 2nd.
i7 3770K
2x reference MSi R9 290's
EVGA SuperNOVA G2 1000w
Asus Sabertooth z77
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ok, so I've had more than 99 issues with crossfire, and up until a 2nd windows reload, this DEFINITELY wasn't one...
Got a second r9 290 for christmas.
Everything went sh***y pretty fast, and because I thought it was a driver conflict, and me only partially deleting drivers beforehand I reinstalled windows.
During my 1st reload, everything went bad for a while as well. Eventually I learned it was most likely ULPS, so I disabled it and pow! My system was running amazingly, Was getting 150fps in bf4 at max, 70 at max in crysis, 180 in bl tps, etc....... Aaaaaaand then I started experiencing crashes, hangs, etc. when I rebooted my pc. It started off as games crashing, and then it turned into my whole computer hanging until I forced shut down via power button. I couldn't find a fix and relied on reloading. I reinstalled my windows for the 2nd time, last night. after I got everything installed, I reinstalled GPU-Z to see this....
(Main card - New card)
(2nd card - Old card)
my older card running like it's a 290x.
I bought that card brand new back in august, and haven't attempted to flash it's bios AT ALL.
The only thing I've actually done is overclocked it via MSi ab, and that doesn't even RELATE to flashing the card's bios. My new card I bought (used - like new) from a trusted vendor. Nothing sketchy at all.
So why & how exactly did this happen? As far as I know the reference MSi r9 290's didn't even have capability of being flashed to r90x's. I'm confused and I don't know what to do at this point. I can't run any games without them hanging, and my computer isn't stable anymore.
`I want to confirm that both of these cards work fine on their own, in the top slot, and the 2nd slot.
`Heat is not the issue at all, they both run with a maximum of 80c (which is perfectly safe for the r9 290(x) series.
`when I was running them overclocked in my 1st reload of windows I was running with a Power limit of 20+, core clock of 1050, mem clock of 1350, and fan speed at 75% (it never reached 85c) Although I'm not running them overclocked now.
`ULPS is disabled (through registry)
`I have the latest drivers
`When I installed windows, I installed with only one r9 290 in the system, and once I had all of the drivers installed, I then installed the 2nd.
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