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R9 290 Unlock to 290X question.

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September 25, 2014 3:56:13 AM

Did a research about unlocking an R9 290 to a 290X and did the following instructions through overclock.net. Have anyone tried to unlock their 290 to 290X? If so... I have a question.

After applying the flash for an R9 290X to unlock my R9 290.

I have a result of 2295 score with an average of 54FPS in Unigine Valley 1.0 after the flash. Didn't do any benchmark that it was still an R9 290 tho but with that score for an R9 290X, is that accurate? I mean other benchmark results for the card gets 2.6k scores in Valley and noticing their processors they're using i7 3***k or 4770k,.

Or maybe because my processor is the one that's holding it back? I have an i5-4440 3.1GHz processor, is this the reason why I have that score? I'm a bit worried tho. :/  Or should I try to flash it back to the original r9 290 bios then try to benchmark and compare the results?

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September 25, 2014 2:21:19 PM

PsychSC2 said:
Did a research about unlocking an R9 290 to a 290X and did the following instructions through overclock.net. Have anyone tried to unlock their 290 to 290X? If so... I have a question.

After applying the flash for an R9 290X to unlock my R9 290.

I have a result of 2295 score with an average of 54FPS in Unigine Valley 1.0 after the flash. Didn't do any benchmark that it was still an R9 290 tho but with that score for an R9 290X, is that accurate? I mean other benchmark results for the card gets 2.6k scores in Valley and noticing their processors they're using i7 3***k or 4770k,.

Or maybe because my processor is the one that's holding it back? I have an i5-4440 3.1GHz processor, is this the reason why I have that score? I'm a bit worried tho. :/  Or should I try to flash it back to the original r9 290 bios then try to benchmark and compare the results?


You should flash it back and compare the results. It used to be possible to flash some AMD GPUs to higher models, chiefly early models of the HD 6950 can be flashed to an HD 6970 if there's no damaged silicon preventing it but AMD put a stop to this a while ago. I would be very surprised if an R9-290 could be fully flashed to an R9-290X. It may be possible to change the way that the device appears to the driver and operating system, but that may not reactivate disabled components.
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