ah okay then. funny i was searching for them in fb but only managed to find a night club lol

this is the vid of the said coil whine:

(please turn up the volume till u can hear the sound of the room fan lol as i was recording this only thru ipong enclosed with a casing lol)

coil whine is actually louder (but of lower pitch) while gaming.

tried to ask sapphire tech support directly but they said its normal


This post has been edited by G_KeN: Apr 22 2016, 12:21 PM

Does this consider overclock guys?



Note: The default speed were 947/ 1250 but I flashed with other bios to 975/ 1250

That barely tickle the core clock

Not dare to do further, at least it run higher than stock speed lol
Btw, I just run on stock cooling

dont be silly, push it to the max!

Lol, mine is the reference unit
The stock cooling aint that good..

Wow i can't imagine how loud that cooler is.

Bro, since that card is a reference unit, it'll be very easy to watercool it
Just buy Corsair HG10 + any AIO
Even a single 120MM/140MM AIO watercooling kit would be able to cool it as much as 60°C on full load

Reference unit is the easiest to watercool

WadafAAk my 770 finally got relegated last argh this is my most humiliating moment ever as hardware pros

Nah, I just run it at AUTO, it will be ok but the temp is not nice la


Been thinking of that but R9 290 is already old vga
New R9 300 series is here.. If u knew what I mean

Bless AMD for using the GCN for so long, only some minor tweaks for newer iteration. So their older cards using GCN arch get the benefit of new driver optimization as well.

Undervolt it to get better temps.

Wha? R9 390/X series is just an overclocked R9 290/X with custom cooler (since there isn't any reference cooler) and 8GB of VRAM.

Check this out
I just move the switch into position far from where I connect the monitor



Why is it overclocked since it should be "Silent Mode"?

390/390X is more than overclocked 290/290X. Even running at the same clock, 390/390X can outbench 290/290X which translated to real world is few FPS higher.

Referenced 290 doesn't have uber/quiet switch position by default. Both switch position have the same copy of BIOS on 290.

Seriously? Did you check that Gpuz of mine?
In different switching position, both loading the different version of bios
But Im confused why the "silent mode" clock is affected with "uber" even it load the different bios

Bios 015.041.xx = Silent position
Bios 015.039.xx = Uber position

This post has been edited by gengstapo: Apr 23 2016, 01:02 PM

IINM some ref 290 is like that

You did said you flashed different BIOS earlier. Of course you will see two different BIOS version now. Referenced 290 doesn't have uber/silent BIOS by default ("...uber/quiet switch position by default" is conveying same meaning). That what I said.

Did you shutdown your computer when you flipped the switch? Try cold-boot your computer.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Apr 23 2016, 03:01 PM

Yes, I flash the bios earlier
From my understanding, u told that ref 290 shall have same bios in silent or uber mode?

It might make sense since I didnt check it earlier before I do the bios flash

Everytime AMD going to launch something.

^No not really, they joint venture with Chinese company for the server market.

I've been using an excellent small program RadeonMod which is a bit like nvidia Inspector program that could tweak AMD driver. It really works from my experience. Fallout 4 slow texture loading no longer an issue after I set 'DisableDMACopy' and 'DisableBlockWrite' to 0

Yeah, hope it will stay up this time.

This post has been edited by Acid_RuleZz: Apr 24 2016, 07:18 PM