- May 28, 2014
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So the other day, I installed my friend's brand spankin' new Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X in the computer I built him. As always, installed Windows without a hitch, got up and running, installed latest AMD drivers, everything is working fine. So then I download and install Open Hardware Monitor, which says the core clock of the card is at 300 MHz and the Memory Clock is at 150 Mhz!
I know this isn't the case, because my HD 7950 overclocked to 1060 MHz core can't run Crysis 3 or Arma 3 the way this card was JUST running it.
I downloaded Sapphre Trixx, MSI Afterburner, and checked in AMD Catalyst Control Overdrive...
All of them indicate that the core clock of this beast is at 300 MHz, and the Memory Clock is at 150 MHz. (Open HWM indicated that the max it jumped to under load was 545 Core Clock, 200 MHz Memory Clock)
What's wrong? There's no way this card can run at a clock speed that low! The core clock should be 1150 MHz or so and the Memory Clock should be ~5000 MHz.
PSU is Corsair CX750M, two dedicated 6+2 pin connectors are going to the card.
Motherboard is an ASRock Z97 Extreme 6
CPU is the Core i5-4690 at stock 3.5GHz of course.
Please help. Is it installed incorrectly? Is something wrong with the motherboard?
He doesn't mind it because it still runs games at the benchmarks I promised, I just want to know why it's misreporting speeds.
I know this isn't the case, because my HD 7950 overclocked to 1060 MHz core can't run Crysis 3 or Arma 3 the way this card was JUST running it.
I downloaded Sapphre Trixx, MSI Afterburner, and checked in AMD Catalyst Control Overdrive...
All of them indicate that the core clock of this beast is at 300 MHz, and the Memory Clock is at 150 MHz. (Open HWM indicated that the max it jumped to under load was 545 Core Clock, 200 MHz Memory Clock)
What's wrong? There's no way this card can run at a clock speed that low! The core clock should be 1150 MHz or so and the Memory Clock should be ~5000 MHz.
PSU is Corsair CX750M, two dedicated 6+2 pin connectors are going to the card.
Motherboard is an ASRock Z97 Extreme 6
CPU is the Core i5-4690 at stock 3.5GHz of course.
Please help. Is it installed incorrectly? Is something wrong with the motherboard?
He doesn't mind it because it still runs games at the benchmarks I promised, I just want to know why it's misreporting speeds.
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