which site you referring to top end AMD will need that extra piece.
the cooler manual of course is a little outdated, not really "new model" anyway.

also coat both contact side with thermal paste. otherwise will also run into serious trouble.

how's the temperature for your card? R9 290? Looks like those readings on your Heaven benchmark is hella bugged... 1664312°c LOL

This post has been edited by M1X: Aug 8 2014, 10:23 AM

Had anyone ran a Sapphire Toxic R9 280x on 550w 600W PSU?
Currently having issue with my Corsair 750W PSU, thinking about trying the spare Xigmatek 550W 600W PSU but noticed Sapphire mentioned 750W minimum requirement on the box... what the heck?

Not sure is 550 or 500... somehow it don't have a sticker on it, bought really long time ago
Nvm, found an old pic on my FB, it's a 600W

This post has been edited by M1X: Aug 27 2014, 06:04 PM

Unstable voltage on 3.3v rail operating at 2.8v for several months now, trigger the mobo anti surge, and yesterday totally crash when game start, sign of dying.
The RMA require purchase receipt duh! Two years item already... might be hard to find.

Currently using the Xigmatek 600w, it does dip to 11.5v on heavy load which I'm not exactly very comfortable with.
Gonna do some undervolt and reduce clock a bit. tried... didn't work best just not run more than 1 game at a time...

This post has been edited by M1X: Aug 28 2014, 02:50 PM

For casual gaming there really no need to have super expensive cards. Last time I was using 6850 crossfire... still can max 1080 (with lower AA) on many games. Oh that you can thanks the console... ... ... hehe. That crossfire performance probably pretty close to R7 265 nowadays. I already sold them however, now got a R9 280x....

Currently using my 280x on seriously gimped core speed - 645Mhz (actual factory OC is 1250Mhz). Blame the broken PSU (struck by lightning...), using backup unit now. To my surprise, I still game on 1080 without much problem LOL... Grid Autosport 1080 4xAA still runs on reasonable 45fps, which is completely fine viewing on TV. Yea, my LCD struck by lightning 2 days ago... fuuuu Lighter games like Path of Exile surely have zero problem.

This post has been edited by M1X: Sep 14 2014, 12:40 PM

I still have that weird problem of crashing when playing video WHILE gaming, IF I use any third party tools to adjust stuff. Even TriXX can't be used. Only Catalyst don't cause trouble. Not sure what's going on hmm. Didn't happened when i first bought the card, only after I reformat my PC...

nope, no flash player. even complete uninstall of them.
any video with any video player, even HTML5 video, etc.

Just heard about this driver, read a review somewhere...



duh.............