XFX R9 270 Issues

[Dwood1968]

Hey guys, I recently purchased an XFX R9 270 GPU and I'm not liking it so far. It plays certain games well, but when I'm doing things outside of gaming it seems to be worse than my old 8800GT that it is replacing. For example when I have Chrome browser open in half-screen then go to expand it to fill up more of the screen, it shakes the window and is very "sticky" unlike the smooth transition I was used to. Can somebody give me some insight into whether or not I just bought too much GPU for my current setup? or what the deal is. I'm running Win7 64-bit with an intel e8400 CPU on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R with 8-gigs of DDR 1066MHz RAM. I uninstalled all existing video drivers and utilities before installing the card and tried both the ones from AMD's site and the provided XFX Driver CD. Windows Experience won't let me test my system it gives an error that has to do with video portion of it. Also, in GPU-Z my card runs at 350MHz core and 150MHz memory at the desktop is this normal? I read a little bit about how it switches to high-performance mode during gaming but how can I turn it on all of the time? I've searched around online a little bit and I haven't seen any similar issues so I'm wondering if my other hardware components just can't support this well or if I got a dud somehow. This turned into an essay, I'm sorry just trying to give as much up-front info as possible. Any help is appreciated!

 

[rolandzhang3]

First of all, that E8400 is holding back that 270x badly so you wouldn't really see too big of an improvement over the 8800.

Seeing as you switched over from Nvidia to AMD, did you use drivesweeper etc. to clean out the older drivers then install clean AMD drivers after that?

Please paragraph or space out your typing, my eyes hurt 😀

 

[Dwood1968]

Thank you for the response! Typing these out on my phone, I'll try to work on the dspacing. When I get home today I'll the Drivesweeper you mentioned and see if that works.

I'm in the process of building a new rig atm ( hence the too large psu) and CPU/Mobo is next so that bottle neck should be removed soon hopefully.

 

[Endless_Clips]

Dude I'm having the exact same problem and I tried the sweep. I have exactly the same components except I'm running an overclocked Q6600 at 3.2 ghz. Also I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit and can't get the graphics driver to install I have to do it manually in the Device Manager. I thought switching to 64-bit Windows 7 might fix it but your still having the same problem so poop. Let me know if you find a solution to this problem asap.