R9 290x not performing to well

KunDuzWolf

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Nov 29, 2014
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I have a problem, I'v had a 7950 and felt that it was time for an upgrade. So I tried a GTX 970 which is suppose to be a great card, however it didn't seem to work to well. I took it back and exchanged it for a R9 290x. I got home and got everything setup. I went to test the card playing Battlefield 4 (And I never play at max settings) and the card wasn't performing to well. V-sync is turned off in both the catalyst and the game. I don't know what the problem is and I'm resorting to this to see if anyone else has had the same problem. Everything is up to date and my computer specs are:

AMD FX-8350
16 GB of RAM
Gigabyte R9 290x
1000w power supply
1TB HDD
Gigabyte Motherboard

Hopefully someone can help me, I'm open to all suggestions at this point!
 
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Did you clean up your previous drivers each time you changed GPU? Leaving old GPU drivers behind is known to cause issues when switching from AMD to Nvidia or viceversa.

Also, as a side note, if you ever got the concept that the highest (or close to that) end GPU from any manufacturer can max out games, forget it.
Unless you're aiming at exotic configurations or unless the game is using an old/lightweight/optimized/combination-of-the-three engine, you can only ensure you'll get the best experience out of it by getting the strongest single card you can afford, as crossfire/SLI usually has to wait for optimized drivers before working properly; other than that, you'll still be bound to developer optimizations, driver updates and general...

Vynavill

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Did you clean up your previous drivers each time you changed GPU? Leaving old GPU drivers behind is known to cause issues when switching from AMD to Nvidia or viceversa.

Also, as a side note, if you ever got the concept that the highest (or close to that) end GPU from any manufacturer can max out games, forget it.
Unless you're aiming at exotic configurations or unless the game is using an old/lightweight/optimized/combination-of-the-three engine, you can only ensure you'll get the best experience out of it by getting the strongest single card you can afford, as crossfire/SLI usually has to wait for optimized drivers before working properly; other than that, you'll still be bound to developer optimizations, driver updates and general quality of the PC port.

You should also know that the 290x is an incredibly HOT card. With the wrong cooler or the wrong settings, it can heat up quite fast and go for thermal throttling.
It shouldn't be the case of the 970, but then again, I wonder what are your standards if you felt a 970 wasn't performing up to expectations... (provided you cleaned up the previous AMD drivers correctly)
 
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