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R9 290x Blue Screens - Just a note

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a b U Graphics card
December 1, 2013 7:51:10 AM

Hello all,

Just wanted to note something for everyone (those answering questions mostly).

It seems there is an issue with the R9 290x (may effect others in the R9 series) that is causing misc random blue screens for what appears to be no reason at all. Testing with 2 versions:
XFX Stock Cooler (Cooler ripped off and Arctic Accelero Extreme III stuck on)
Sapphire Stock Cooler (completely stock)

Under the 2 different cards I have ran them in 4 different machines (3 win7, 1 Win8) for about 6-8 hours each using latest beta driver (13.11 Beta 9.4) and the issue spans across all of them. At first I thought it was likely a driver issue but after some research it appears that the majority of early owners of the 290x are seeing the same issue but not with other GPU's on the same driver, some getting BSOD just leaving desktop up. Tested that as well with a 7870 and a 7970 using same driver, no crash.

The issue persists through any clock settings, any fan settings, etc. Even let one run at 75% fan speed constantly to see if it was the issue, other than sounding like a vaccum was in the room, no change, still crashed.

TL;DR: At the moment the 290x is causing misc blue screens that seem to be hardware related. Keep this in mind when suggesting to others. If you are debating the stock cooler at the moment, trust me, don't get it.

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December 1, 2013 7:54:35 AM

cuz amd c:
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December 1, 2013 7:57:57 AM

I have not heard any of these issues before probably driver issue, I reckon

Thanks for the heads up, you should write an email to AMD as well, it might help them!
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a b U Graphics card
December 1, 2013 7:59:08 AM

Nefos said:
I have not heard any of these issues before probably driver issue, I reckon

Thanks for the heads up, you should write an email to AMD as well, it might help them!


Already have.

Anyways, see here:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=440&th...

Effects 290 as well.

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