R9 290 overclocking and CCC question

[Adidas4275]

so new to the R9 290 today, nice upgrade from my 7970 for 3x1080p gaming...

looked at the CCC overdrive and it is that crazy 4 quad graph thing.

I moved it up and right for overclock and voltage, but it is hard to be precise and move small amounts.

ends up locking up quite fast... and i really dont like using it to OC

what other tools are people using?

does MSI afterburner work well with the new cards?

Thanks guy... and ill keep looking around and probably find my own answers.

btw my card is the saphire reference and i swapped the stock HSF for the Geil 2 92mm heatpipe cooler.

worked well, stays around 49*C loaded in gaming on stock settings.

 

[gerardfraser]

I only use Sapphire Trixx with my 290 cards because I can overclock higher with more voltage compared to Afterburner or CCC .Use whatever software that comes with your card.
I also think you may have problems in afterburner or CCC overdrive with the cards pushing the overclocks.

 

[Adidas4275]

thanks, since mine is a sapphire ill use trixx... never used it before

 

[gerardfraser]

No problem.If you want to check out my first overclocks with my first R9 290 Tri-X with different fan speeds,clocks for temperatures.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1800143

 

[The Mac]

AB works fine for me. use beta 18

Trixx has no monitoring unfortunately.

I also have a sapphire 290 reference, but ive removed the HSF and use a Gelid Icy Vision.

 

[Tup3x]

Trixx seems to use more cpu too than afterburner. With AB you need to reapply clocks after CCC has loaded after every system startup. Damn CCC applies stock clocks even when overdrive is disabled. Ab startup should be delayed to avoid that. AB does work just fine.

 

[Adidas4275]

Thanks for that. I'll try both and see. I have used AB before and setup application profiles to OC when a game is loaded.

I use GPU-z for monitoring and graph the CSV excel file.

What do you guys use for testing stability for OC?

Like the prime95 for GPUs?

 

[Sodapopjones]

Thanks for that. I'll try both and see. I have used AB before and setup application profiles to OC when a game is loaded.

I use GPU-z for monitoring and graph the CSV excel file.

What do you guys use for testing stability for OC?

Like the prime95 for GPUs?

You can loop one of the Heaven benchmarks, but honestly, I've been using BF4 single player lately.

 

[Adidas4275]

i found some newer one called "Valley" ill give it a try.

BF4 takes too long to load and doesnt quit on errors... but that will definately be part of my "stress testing" for sure!

Getting started on OCing it now

 

[Adidas4275]

okay looks like with an early OC i can get the GPU core to 1200, it takes +75mv and if i move the Memory at all the AMD driver fails... so that is interesting.

VRAM 1 temps get high..... so looking at all the threads online it looks like i need air moving over the heatsink i have on the vram... it hit 110 when i pushed the OC and loaded up Valley...

so not doing that for too long.

 

[Adidas4275]

Okay, so i am getting back screens randomly.

not sure what it is, doesnt seem to coincide with VRAM temps or voltage droops.... so not sure what it is. happened 1 time on stock settings....

perhaps one of my ram sinks i put on came off or something, so ill take the card out and look at it soon.

 

[gerardfraser]

When you had the black screen on stock.
Did you have Afterburner ,CCC overdrive or Sapphire Trixx or nothing running.

Let us know if one of the sinks fell off.