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September 23, 2014 5:51:12 AM

Good Day all.

Simple question.
My brother bought a new ASUS Radeon R9290. very fancy and all but he has an old M4A Asus motherboard.
Now the graphics card worked fine for a short while but has been slowly melting down and eventually started throwing bluescreens after just 3 days. One interesting error was the display turning into these, "strips of artifacts running on the screen", is the best way I can describe it

We sent the card back to the the guys at rebeltech and they said they'd look into it. We got an email saying that they ran the card through their tests and they found nothing wrong with it.

Any opinions?

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September 23, 2014 5:59:43 AM

Check temperature. If playing games then check that enough watts are given to it from or board. Remove dust from ur case if overheating get some fans to cool it down. If nothing works than its board problem get a new one... But hurry before ur gpu turns trash
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September 23, 2014 6:13:48 AM

While display output artifacts like stripes are often a sign of video memory issues, those issues can be caused by external factors such as a noisy PSU causing the GPU and memory voltage regulators to act up.
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September 23, 2014 8:00:15 AM

Cold be heat or a power supply issue. A cheap power supply and a R9 290 is not a good combination, may need an upgrade. Also check for a BIOS update for the motherboard just to keep things cean.
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September 23, 2014 10:30:28 AM

According to the heat monitor provided by the driver itself we never went above 68 degrees so it wasn't too hot.
I'm not sure on the motherboard BIOS through, I don't like updating that since I've had issues in the past.

Now the PSU answer peaked my interest. Can you define "Noisy PSU". Is it literal noise or do you mean like static interference? Its a 750W PSU, old-ish. About a year newer than then motherboard.

InvalidError said:
While display output artifacts like stripes are often a sign of video memory issues, those issues can be caused by external factors such as a noisy PSU causing the GPU and memory voltage regulators to act up.


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September 24, 2014 6:16:36 AM

Durosuka said:
According to the heat monitor provided by the driver itself we never went above 68 degrees so it wasn't too hot.
I'm not sure on the motherboard BIOS through, I don't like updating that since I've had issues in the past.

Now the PSU answer peaked my interest. Can you define "Noisy PSU". Is it literal noise or do you mean like static interference? Its a 750W PSU, old-ish. About a year newer than then motherboard.

InvalidError said:
While display output artifacts like stripes are often a sign of video memory issues, those issues can be caused by external factors such as a noisy PSU causing the GPU and memory voltage regulators to act up.




What is the brand and model of the power supply?
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September 24, 2014 8:30:27 AM

Durosuka said:
Now the PSU answer peaked my interest. Can you define "Noisy PSU". Is it literal noise or do you mean like static interference? Its a 750W PSU, old-ish. About a year newer than then motherboard.

When talking about PSU noise in terms of system stability issue, we mean it in the electrical sense: are the power supply's outputs clean and stable? The only definitive way to find out for sure without guessing and doing part-swapping is to measure them with an oscilloscope.
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September 24, 2014 11:03:16 AM

Right I've got the brand and the model.

Its a Raidmax RX-700AC
It was a 700W, not a 750W. My apologies,

As for the oscilloscope. I have an uncle that might be able to loan me one but that might take some time. We're picking up the card from the shop on Friday so if it still gives problems I'll try to swap some parts between my box and my brother's

Thank you all for your help so far. Cya Friday!
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September 24, 2014 11:10:42 AM

A dodgy PSU. I would NOT use that with a R9 290.
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September 24, 2014 3:04:30 PM

Durosuka said:
Right I've got the brand and the model.

Its a Raidmax RX-700AC

Yup, that definitely smells like trouble: Raidmax is one of those many bottom-of-the-barrel brands - those that tend to have very short lives and usually cannot deliver anywhere near their sticker ratings without either failing or going out of spec.
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September 25, 2014 11:12:18 AM

Durosuka said:
Right I've got the brand and the model.

Its a Raidmax RX-700AC
It was a 700W, not a 750W. My apologies,

As for the oscilloscope. I have an uncle that might be able to loan me one but that might take some time. We're picking up the card from the shop on Friday so if it still gives problems I'll try to swap some parts between my box and my brother's

Thank you all for your help so far. Cya Friday!


I would replace the power supply, read this and I'd select something from the top 3 tiers or top 2. Raidmax is in the tier 5 which is the "replace immediatly" section hehe http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804779/power-su...
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September 27, 2014 12:43:31 AM

Right, the PC is now sitting at the shop for the weekend. I tried telling my brother about the power supply but he ignored me :/ 
When the thing comes back I'll swap it for mine and see what happens. For now I'm picking InvalidError's response as the answer
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