- Jan 15, 2017
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I know, I know, this is the billionth thread about this.
A friend got a Sapphire R9 Fury. His brother also got one. He RMA'd the first card, as we thought it was broken. The second card acts the same.
Testing his brothers card (which is known to work) in his system produces the same results as his card- intensive games like GTAV and Doom crash after a bit of gameplay. So I figure it must be something wrong with his system configuration, either software or hardware.
Running other games on max pushing 100+ fps seems to be fine, so my initial thoughts were the problems were memory related or something more esoteric- some crash errors have indeed mentioned memory read/write errors. But there's a lot of variables, and the fact that 3 cards don't work in his system points to something else.
Things we've tried:
1) Underclocking the heck out of the card.
2) Setting fan to max to ensure it wasn't a thermal issue.
3) Updating chipset drivers for the motherboard (didn't try BIOS yet)
4) Just to mention again, putting a known card of the same make and model in and seeing the same problems
Friend's specs:
Intel Core i5-4440
Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H Motherboard
G.Skill Ares 8GB DDR3-1600
Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze
My lingering fear is that it's purely a PSU issue... I know the R9 Fury is power hungry and I know my friend's brother's computer (which is working fine with the same card) has an EVGA SuperNova G2 550W 80+ Gold. I can get other specs for his machine if that's helpful.
I'd want to be sure to rule out other problems before I tell him to buy a new PSU. In particular I would have thought a severe underclock would have worked if power is the issue? Or does peak power draw not decrease linearly with clock speeds?
A friend got a Sapphire R9 Fury. His brother also got one. He RMA'd the first card, as we thought it was broken. The second card acts the same.
Testing his brothers card (which is known to work) in his system produces the same results as his card- intensive games like GTAV and Doom crash after a bit of gameplay. So I figure it must be something wrong with his system configuration, either software or hardware.
Running other games on max pushing 100+ fps seems to be fine, so my initial thoughts were the problems were memory related or something more esoteric- some crash errors have indeed mentioned memory read/write errors. But there's a lot of variables, and the fact that 3 cards don't work in his system points to something else.
Things we've tried:
1) Underclocking the heck out of the card.
2) Setting fan to max to ensure it wasn't a thermal issue.
3) Updating chipset drivers for the motherboard (didn't try BIOS yet)
4) Just to mention again, putting a known card of the same make and model in and seeing the same problems
Friend's specs:
Intel Core i5-4440
Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H Motherboard
G.Skill Ares 8GB DDR3-1600
Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze
My lingering fear is that it's purely a PSU issue... I know the R9 Fury is power hungry and I know my friend's brother's computer (which is working fine with the same card) has an EVGA SuperNova G2 550W 80+ Gold. I can get other specs for his machine if that's helpful.
I'd want to be sure to rule out other problems before I tell him to buy a new PSU. In particular I would have thought a severe underclock would have worked if power is the issue? Or does peak power draw not decrease linearly with clock speeds?
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