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R9 280x DirectCU II Top Artifacts!!

d1versify
Level 7
HEllo i just upgraded from an 7870 to the R9280X-DC2T-3GD5

I followed these steps for drivers

1. Ran Catalyst control center from C:/ AMD and did a custom uninstall. Removed all
2. Restarted computer
3. Ran Driver Fusion and deleted everything from AMD
4. Restarted computer
5. Installed latest 13.12 R9 drivers from AMD site

I get artifacts (shapes, lines , squares) flashing everywhere in screen , when in Chrome, in Dota 2 and Planetside 2. Haven't tested in more games , but I guess it will be the same.
The card will need a replacement? I have a Corsair CX600 , AMD FX 8350, Corsair Vengeance 2x4gb 1600 mhz
I read somewhere about GPU bios update. I ran the GPU ASUS TWEAK software that came in with the CD, and i tried to update something but i got a message ROM programming fail. But then it seemed to installed the update and forced me to restart the computer.
But still i get artifacts.
What do you suggest?
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Nate152 wrote:
Hi gta0anu

I will forward this to Bahz an administrator here on the forum, he will either reply here or send you a Private Message.


Thank you, I have him a pm already with all the details, lets see what happens......

gta0anu wrote:
Thank you, I have him a pm already with all the details, lets see what happens......








update: so I got a r9 290 in exchange for r9 280x, I tried few games on it like Dragon age Inquisition .... To my surprise temps were above 90 degrees Celsius after like 4-5 minutes of gaming, I had to turn off the game so as to avoid any damage to card.... Is this normal temps for the card? I opened the case also...

Nate152
Moderator
Cool, that seemed pretty quick !

Yeah it's normal for the r9 290 to run that hot, to keep it is cool as possible crank the fan to 100% then start your game, it's what I would do. 🙂

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/radeon-r9-290-review-benchmarks,11.html

Nate152 wrote:
Cool, that seemed pretty quick !

Yeah it's normal for the r9 290 to run that hot, to keep it is cool as possible crank the fan to 100% then start your game, it's what I would do. 🙂

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/radeon-r9-290-review-benchmarks,11.html



Hey thanks for reply, those temprature are using AMD's stock cooling solution, here we are using Asus's Direct CU 2 cooling solution.... how the hell its getting so hot within minutes of gameplay. I am talking about 2-4 minutes.... Also it idles at 45 degrees, I mean I have an i7 3770k which goes max that much during games.... This is gonna affect my other components in my system also by raising overall temps.........

Also did I mention that the case is open, its ridiculous that an aftermarket cooling solution would giver higher temps than the stock......



see above temps after 4 mintues?

Hi.

I have recently found this thread. I have had the card for a long time and I didn't have any issues with many games or the artifacts appeared after several hours playing and always I had thought that the problem was about other components. But this last Christmas I changed lot of components but this card and, after that, I started playing some games that have this issue in a short time like Just Cause 3 or Farcry Primal. In fact, Just Cause game becomes unplayable in a short time and I have to restart it. For this reason I have started to search information about this problem and fortunately I found this thread and a lot of people in my same situation and I would like to ask:

1. Does anyone have some type of tip to fix the artifacts problem?
2. As the issue is a well-know problem of this card, have we got the posibility of RMA the card although the legal warranty is gone?

Best regards.

Seur1900 wrote:
Hi.

I have recently found this thread. I have had the card for a long time and I didn't have any issues with many games or the artifacts appeared after several hours playing and always I had thought that the problem was about other components. But this last Christmas I changed lot of components but this card and, after that, I started playing some games that have this issue in a short time like Just Cause 3 or Farcry Primal. In fact, Just Cause game becomes unplayable in a short time and I have to restart it. For this reason I have started to search information about this problem and fortunately I found this thread and a lot of people in my same situation and I would like to ask:

1. Does anyone have some type of tip to fix the artifacts problem?
2. As the issue is a well-know problem of this card, have we got the posibility of RMA the card although the legal warranty is gone?

Best regards.


Hi there,

Unfortunately if the warranty is up then there's nothing that can be done. Have you previously RMA'd this card before for this same issue? If you have then you might be able to use that as a special case reason and can try contacting support to request for another RMA.

You can try lowering the memory clock using GPU Tweak (check the product support page for your product to see which version is compatible with your card).

Best Regards,
Bahz

As the old saying goes... Hindsight is 2020 which ironically the year is also 2020, and due to my own personal ignorance of this issue, I had no idea I would be buying a GPU with so many issues. Primarily artifacts, both in game and on the desktop.

I have went in via DOS and with Linux Lime and there is no issues with the basic or default GPU drivers that gets assigned to this card. So that kinda tells me it's a driver issue to a point.

While this is now a several year old card and the obvious answer is to NEVER buy one of these, I was the lucky contestant who bought two of them on Ebay for a reasonable price, however, I did not realize that there was a known issue until it was too late, and it is what it is so I'm not going to cry over spilled milk. I had an Asus Direct CU 6900 series card one of the ones that is 3 card's thick, and honestly, the only reason I purchased these cards was due to age and I was having issues with the old 6900 card "seeing" display output ports. Again the old GPU served me 7 years so I can't complain other than the eventual display out problem, the card was rock solid for years.

And I admit I have an old Asus Cross-hair V that I am just trying to squeeze a year or two more of use out of and had hoped to just replace the GPU with a set of R9 280X cards in crossfire and in theory upgrade substantially from what I had been using the past 7 or so years, and if it did not have the artifact issues, and tearing and shading issues in games it would have been a decent price paid for what I intended to use it for.

Along with the artifacts showing up on the displays, it randomly picks 1 of 3 displays and there's just this checkerboard looking spot, sometimes it's on 2/3 monitors, sometimes just one, every so often that even disappears, but along with this artifact issue, one of the screens if not two of the three starts this crazy jittering and or jumping like someone is shaking the monitor but obviously no one is.

After browsing through over 60 pages, I see folks suggest various things, but what I do not see is a "FIX" I see folks say use the Overclock tool and change this and that, but they never or at least I have not seen a clear list of values to use.

I'm not a total newbie so, I do not mind and have tried my hand at fixing it myself using various values, and NONE thus far have stopped the issues, or even on of several issues for that matter.

So I assume the real "FIX" is to toss both of these into the trash? Or maybe use them for Linux based systems and do not upgrade the drivers?