AMD Sapphire Dual X R9 270x Crashing and black screen

Felchaos · Aug 29, 2015

PSU: Seasonic 620W 12V 80plus bronze (2 years of constant gaming)

GPU: AMD Sapphire Dual X R9 270x (ages :2 years of constant gaming)
GPU Driver: 13.101 AMD catalyst

Problem:

I was playing a moderate modded skyrim for 30 mins since start up the rig, and temperature was monitored at below 70C both for CPU and GPU, then experienced a sudden crashing where the desktop no longer respond to anything. i have tried to reboot the desktop, it crashed again with color stripes randomly when it wasnt under heavy load (just running chrome). then I have tried reboot again and it is now boot to black screen after the window starting logo.

i have tried boot into safe mode and disable the Graphic card in device manager, window can boot normally, running on iGPU.

I have tried update the driver to 14.12, its still not working.

Did i damage the Card? expert please help!

PS: sorry, i am not a native english speaker, so my english will be sux to certain level, but i will provide any further information if need by all means. thank you.

cdrkf · Aug 29, 2015

Felchaos :

Sounds like a dead GPU to me (the colour strips are a give away). They can wear out, especially of you've over clocked the gpu? If it was ever over clocked, try reinstalling the catalyst drivers and resetting to default or even under clocking it a bit, however if you can't get it to boot properly then it could simply be blown, in which case you'll need to invest in a new card.

Felchaos · Aug 29, 2015

cdrkf :

Felchaos :

Sounds like a dead GPU to me (the colour strips are a give away). They can wear out, especially of you've over clocked the gpu? If it was ever over clocked, try reinstalling the catalyst drivers and resetting to default or even under clocking it a bit, however if you can't get it to boot properly then it could simply be blown, in which case you'll need to invest in a new card.

i guess thats it, been struggling for days... thank you

any suggestion for cheap gpu card?

cdrkf · Aug 29, 2015

Felchaos :

cdrkf :

i guess thats it, been struggling for days... thank you

any suggestion for cheap gpu card?

Depends on your budget. The R9 380 isn't too expensive and is a good deal faster than the 270x.

Other good cards in that kinda price range: GTX 950 (slightly slower than your 270x but cheaper) and GTX960 (faster than the 270x, about the same as the 380 perf wise). For a high performance gpu the R9 390 is hard to beat (faster than the 290x and GTX 970 with 8gb of vram) although it's quite a bit more money.

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