what I did I took my Powersupply which is a Cosair gs800 out of my PC and put it in my daughter's pc then I put the r9 290 in my daughter's PC. Boot it up, install drivers and bam everything work fine. Was able to watch a 45 min Video with not hard lockups. Put everything back in my PC and 2...
The motherboard I had there was 2 versions of it. The Version I have only uses ddr2. The other version uses ddr3.
I had the ddr2 memory from a previous board that had a 1.0 PCIEx16 slot and I had to get a new motherboard with a PCIE 2.0 slot in order to use my XFX 5830.
Just a update the answer is no some older chipsets the R9 290/290x is not compatible. I have to get a new motherboard and of course memory since my old motherboard uses ddr2.
After taking my graphics card and my powersupply and put it in my daughters PC which is alot newer than mine. The r9...
Yes I was doing some gaming and it was the same voltage across. even easytune 6 that Gigabyte has is reporting the same thing except it says it is at 12.110 volts
If I am reading this right it says the 12v, voltage is 12.112 volts.
Also Newegg had received my card back and has approved a replacement. Hopefully they will shipped from their warehouse in Memphis so it can get here quicker.
Yes I always update the bios to the latest one which is the last one that Gigabyte release for my motherboard back in 2012.
My card has made it to California so now I am waiting on hearing from Newegg to see if it was defiantly bad.
Going thru with a RMA right now with Newegg. I was still within their 30 day window so I dont have to deal with XFX in trying to replace my r9 290 that lasted a little over an hour.