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My r9 290 Performing Bad Compared to Reviews?

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September 13, 2014 1:02:43 AM

I purchased an HIS r9 290 4GB a few weeks back, and the temps have been remaining in an acceptable range ( never above 71c on stock clocks while gaming )

but it seems to be less of the uber-performance card for the price that most reviewers gave it.



I ran the unigine heaven benchmark at stock clocks.

Here are my Heaven settings:

DX11

Quality: Ultra

Tessellation: Extreme

One Monitor at 900p ( I know it's a waste but I have yet to buy a 1080p one... =/ )

Anti-Aliasing: x8



My score: ( Again, no overclocks )

FPS: 64.7

Score: 1630

min FPS: 8.6

max FPS: 131.4



Whole PC specs

r9 290 4GB

FX 6350 OCed to 4.6 GHz (never breaking 50c)

16GB 1600mhz RAM

1 1TB HDD

1 250GB HDD

M5A97 LE R2.0 Asus motherboard

750 watt seasonic ( I heard they are good) PSU.



So, with all these in mind, is my card performing under what it should? Some benchmarks for just cause 2 had it running at over 100FPS in 1080p...

I booted up my just cause and was only getting about 75FPS in 900p...



Did I just crap out on the silicon lottery?

Is anything wrong?

Should I try to RMA for performing as intended card?



Thanks for your help in advance. =]

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