XFX R9 290 with Antec CP-850 PSU

[Xanwes]

Hey all,
I recently got the XFX R9 290 Black Edition after installation I installed the drivers but I was (changed back to old card) getting black screens ever 5 - 25 minutes all the way up two 3 hours. This had been with playing games (Shadow of Mordor) and using Word and Chrome. This became very annoying, does someone know if my PSU is not up to snuff?
Current Machine-
AMD Phenom (II) x6 1090T 3.2Ghz
WD1TB boot and 2TB Samsung Storage
8GB's of Ram (Just replaced by repair shop, unsure of make/model)
XFX 1GB HD6870's in Crossfire
Antec CP-850 PSU
Asus M4A88TD-V Evo
If my PSU is not able to handle the 290 can someone recommend a similar priced GPU? I'm looking at the GTX970 atm.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Onus]

Your PSU is a good one, and can easily handle a R9 290.

 

[Amir Fisher]

As Onus said, yes but also make sure you have power saving turned off.

 

[Xanwes]

As Onus said, yes but also make sure you have power saving turned off.

Do you mean Power Saving in the power options in the control panel? Because even with that I am getting the crashes.

 

[Amir Fisher]

As Onus said, yes but also make sure you have power saving turned off.

Do you mean Power Saving in the power options in the control panel? Because even with that I am getting the crashes.

Yep ( also can be set by certain applications ) not sure but it might be your cpu temp.. you can always check your temps with this http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

 

[Xanwes]

What do you mean by set by applications?
Like CCC or MSI?
When I use the 290 I get 38C on Ideal and atm with dual 6870 and Coretemp is reading my CPU at 18-19C
Is there anything you reccomend me to do?
Control panel and set to High Performance, what else?

 

[Amir Fisher]

mmm.. these temps are good actually. have you overclocked your current gpu clock speeds?

 

[Xanwes]

mmm.. these temps are good actually. have you overclocked your current gpu clock speeds?

I havent, but I have the Black Edition which I think has an overclock by XFX, should I send it back and try and get a non black edition to see what happenes?

 

[Onus]

No. First of all does your whole system "crash," requiring a restart (i.e. use of reset button or power cycle), or is it a momentary black screen then it works again (for a while)?
Before you installed the R9 290, did you completely remove all your old video drivers?
Run memtest86+ on your RAM.
If none of that helps, use AMD's CCC to slow the card down to reference R9 290 speeds. If that works, you can either return it for being unstable at factory clocks, or just run it a little slower.

 

[Xanwes]

Okay will try those later/tomorrow,
I did remove the drivers and install the latest.
The screen freezes and sound stops but continues (The wierd noise) and the PC auto restarts, sometimes the screen is black sometimes not.

thanks guys will update

 

[Xanwes]

No. First of all does your whole system "crash," requiring a restart (i.e. use of reset button or power cycle), or is it a momentary black screen then it works again (for a while)?
Before you installed the R9 290, did you completely remove all your old video drivers?
Run memtest86+ on your RAM.
If none of that helps, use AMD's CCC to slow the card down to reference R9 290 speeds. If that works, you can either return it for being unstable at factory clocks, or just run it a little slower.

Used the solution for under clocking on CCC by 10%, PC has ran perfectly all day. Cool temps and high performance with no crashes. Will inform if that changes.

 

[Onus]

If you're satisfied by the performance at reduced clocks, it probably isn't worth the hassle of a return. If it bugs you, however, best to get a RMA before the warranty runs out.

 

[Xanwes]

Reduced clock was only temporary, it may help someone else but for now I will return the card can get something different, sick of this now.
Thanks for your help guys!