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    Is my R9 290 dying? 30-50% drop in performance unless I restart a few times.

    Haha, yeah. I put the fan to work.... Anyway, I tried the second PCIe slot in my motherboard (It's a 3.0 x8 slot) and performance is still shoddy most of the time. How can I determine what is at fault? I don't really have access to other parts at the moment...
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    Is my R9 290 dying? 30-50% drop in performance unless I restart a few times.

    For me, throttling doesn't seem to be the issue as the loss in performance is *immediate*, even as the clocks are at the normal 947/1250 and temps are below 60 degrees.This isn't performance starting off well and becoming worse as the card heats up... This is performance being consistently...
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    Is my R9 290 dying? 30-50% drop in performance unless I restart a few times.

    MacLeod it's just games. The system is as responsive as ever but 3d games seem to take a hit in performance more often than not. Memtest shows no errors... :(
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    Is my R9 290 dying? 30-50% drop in performance unless I restart a few times.

    Ever since last Friday, I've been struggling with this odd loss in performance. First I thought it was relegated to GTAV only, as that was the only game I was trying to troubleshoot and play, but then I discovered a marked decrease in performance across the board. My 3DMark Firestrike score...
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