bro i have same problem with u before.. so many things ive tried to solve the problems such as reinstall driver and windows, trying different version of drivers/ccc, reseat the coolers.. but the black screen problems still happened.. then a friend told me that many r9 290 cards have problems in voltage stability at stock especially with the reference one.. so he advised me to try overvolt and overclock a bit.. i oced my cards to 1100core and 1350mem with +50mv volt and the problem solved.. no more black screen.. now im comfortably gaming with 1170core and 1400mem with +100mv volt.. i did wanted to try flash the card but it seems not needed..

yeah but somehow i cant get it over 1400mem even though overvolt +200mv using trixx.. it will caused artifacts and became unstable.. maybe because of bad elpida memory type.. or maybe anyone can advice me how to reach over 1500mem?

its heavily depends on the memory type used in the cards.. those who have r9 290 hynix memory can oc up to 1500-1600mem.. haiz i really wish i owned hynix one..

watta jaw dropper!! limited edition 500 units only..
really hope our local people will get a chance to buy it and make a review here..

Yeah agreed my old HD3870 can served me like 3 - 4 years also with decent graphic setting.. but that time only gaming in 720p.. with 1080p its a different story already.. currently all latest popular games are quite demanding especially in gpu.. IMO if u want ur gpu to last for at least 3 - 4 years, you should try getting at least r9 280 or gtx760 and above.. indeed R7 265 for todays games is already good but i think its cukup-cukup makan only .. in 1 - 2 years, r7 265 will become weak i think.. unless u doesn't care playing at medium to low setting..

since u already have one 7970, buy another 1 for crossfire are better.. 2x7970 crossfire are faster than single 290x... wait for the 390x release also a good idea.. i shouldn't be long..

25th September.. AMD better give us their best shot .. otherwise many red team member will start to migrate ..

yeah the price were ridiculously cheap.. im so lucky to sold my dcu2 r9 280x at rm950 four months ago.. i wonder what will happened with 2nd hand r9 290 prices after the release of r9 3xx..

haiz the waiting is so torturing .. but at least i can still enjoy the feeling of owning the most current of high end amd card for few months more ..

Yeah totally agree.. imo going from r9 290/x to gtx 980 does not giving a significant improvement in term of performance.. gtx 980 more like gtx 780 ti but with better TDP.. so to me it is not worth upgrading. If the new r9 390x will have like 30% more performance than r9 290x just like what it did to HD7970, r9 390x will probably smack gtx 980 ez..

lol seriously? not even 50mhz?? its more like tofu chip.. even lemons are better. never heard amd chip cant OC for at least 50mhz..

nobody want to buy a 780 ti but cant oc a bit.. unless the owner willing to sell it at irresistible price..

i believe most of high end card owner will oc their card even thought its already overkill.. they already spend a lot for the card so surely they will squeeze the card until the last drip.. i meant, that's what enthusiast will do lol!

haiz the unOCiable 780 ti still bugging me.. it just.. its really unacceptable.. by knowing that 780 ti's usually are monster OC card, its a disgrace.. nvidia or asus should be responsible for this madness.. to @sai86 i feel sorry for you bro..

eh i thought your rig also run xfire 290x?? saw your firestrike score moment ago and im sure you cant get it with single gpu.. bro str8 away gtx 980 sli le.. moving from 290x to 970 not worth it la..

eh that score were really sky high even for r9 290 CF .. and its only at stock clock wtf?? what cpu they are using? i7 5960x??

here are my score for comparison, (i7 4790k - 4.8ghz, r9 290 CF - 1170core, 1400 mem)



http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2890667

even if i oc my gpu to 1200 core, i dont think i can reach 1900 score in fire strike .. or my system got faulty aa?

aaahh i should have notice that .. thanks for the enlightenment bro.. so its fair enough for me to skip gtx 980 atm..

ahhahaha its just that my case is capable to mount that much of fans so why not .. u have no idea the noise they will make at 2000+rpm .. i just need to find a good pair of wings and a launch terminal.. i will prove that the Pluto is really exist haha!

since you are using air cooled gpu and in xfire mode, i recommend you to use not more that 100mv voltage oc.. at 200mv im pretty sure ur gpu cant handle the heat especially its VRM.. easily will hit 100+c..

to reach 1200core, for sure more than 100++mv voltage need to be used.. no prob for you since u are using fully water cooling system.. in fact u can even try to increase up to 300mv to squeeze a bit more of your gpu oc.. but ive read some reviews from Hawaii owners saying that increasing more than 1230++core and above will not getting any significant increase in performance.. in fact they were having performance drop by pushing higher than that.. so i guess 1200core is already reaching the border line. however i never try it before so dont know whether it is true or not.. you can try it on your own and tell us the outcome

add: the above insight is for r9 290.. but since the oc potential for both r9 290x and 290 are quite similar, so its may be the same.

in my experienced, i dont even oc it by disabling xfire.. just simply increase the core and mem using afterburner and run benchmark to check any instability.. just make sure you turn on synchronize for both gpu in the afterburner/trixx setting.. logically if one the gpus become unstable with the current oc, benchmark will show artifacts.. does not matter even though your other gpu is stable at that oc, it will still shows some artifact if the other one is unstable.. so just increase voltage or lower down core/mem until no artifact appear and you are good to go.. im sure you already know its useless to run different core/mem setting in xfire mode ..