Hey yall, long time lurker. So I bought an openbox Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 for $200. Sweet right? hmmmm.... I install it on a fresh install win7 and and sorts of oddities are happening. I've had ~5 BSOD's 12 or so blank black screen crash (where hard reboot is needed) games have artifacts and freezes. Other games crash because of memory problems. Time to RMA? Or a shitty driver conflict?
Check out my video of what happens 100% of the time now:
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=ffotROUcE6E&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_FfJ3VqxTVM%26feature%3Dshare
MSI 890FXA GD70
AMD Phenom II 965 BE
Klevv Fit 16GB
Corsair HX 750W psu
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Win 7 pro SP1
Newest AMD 16.1 Catalyst drivers
More info. This video was taken on a 2nd fresh install with only the graphics drivers installed, Chrome with Res enhancement, video drivers, Steam. I have not yet installed the soundcard drivers. I'm probably going to reinstall and use a really old graphics card to test the system to be sure before RMA. The RAM passed memtest 86+. Also, this R9 290 barely outdoes my old HD 6850 card when the system isn't crashing.
Did I find out why this was an openbox?
Check out my video of what happens 100% of the time now:
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=ffotROUcE6E&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_FfJ3VqxTVM%26feature%3Dshare
MSI 890FXA GD70
AMD Phenom II 965 BE
Klevv Fit 16GB
Corsair HX 750W psu
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Win 7 pro SP1
Newest AMD 16.1 Catalyst drivers
More info. This video was taken on a 2nd fresh install with only the graphics drivers installed, Chrome with Res enhancement, video drivers, Steam. I have not yet installed the soundcard drivers. I'm probably going to reinstall and use a really old graphics card to test the system to be sure before RMA. The RAM passed memtest 86+. Also, this R9 290 barely outdoes my old HD 6850 card when the system isn't crashing.
Did I find out why this was an openbox?
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