gpu-z miss read?

matsamas

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Aug 20, 2013
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Hello and happy new year everyone.
I recently tried to oc my r9 290 tri-x oc gpus and i ended up on a black screen and i found its cause of the bios with lower voltage. So i found the bios but:

1)how do i flash the bios? I know i will do it on each card seperately but how? and in which possition should the switch be?

2)when i run gpu-z to find my current bios version on the first card everything is fine but on the second is read as a card with higher shaders (2816v2560) texture filter (176v160Gtexel/s)
it also say on the first card pci-e 3.0 x16 @ x8 3.0 and on the second pci-e 3.0 x16 @ x1 1.1

it actually look like according to this video in the end that is 29 290x.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXbsGK_cSE (1:40 for gpu pic)

can some1 explain me why this happens? my mobo is gigabyte z77x ud3h which supports crossfire x8/x8 not x1 1.1 :S

thanks in advance
 
Solution
All cards read 1.1 until they are under load. If you click the ? next to the 1.1 and run the render test then watch the pci-e version it will increase as the load goes up.