My New R9 280X

[N00berG00ber]

Whats up guys!

so heres my new toy.... MSI R9 280X!

this is a beast of a card! very powerful and plays every game out there at 1080p

some benchmarks with games i have played so far:

BF3 64 player server 65-80 FPS Maxed out
Metro Last Light 60 FPS maxed out 2x AA

this is all still on beta drivers (13.11) and its only going to get better!

the card so far has never hit 65c

there are some stutters and frame dips here and there in games but i think after the drivers become official, it will run amazing!

my only complaint about the card is that it wines like a kid without candy! usually after 50% load it wines noticeably and when i get over 500FPS it squeals a lot! but again i think it will be fine after a driver update. other people were complaining about too, so im not worried. i got a 3 year warranty.

ill post my Unigine Heaven benchmarks as soon as i get home....

heres some pics!

 

[Dude]

Looking good Noober, keep us posted on the whine

 

[Solarstarshines]

Nice looking Twin Frozr

 

[N00berG00ber]

thanks the wine has decreased but is still noticeable

 

[Solarstarshines]

thanks the wine has decreased but is still noticeable

Could be due to it being new maybe it will go out if you keep working it for a while

 

[N00berG00ber]

thanks the wine has decreased but is still noticeable

Could be due to it being new maybe it will go out if you keep working it for a while

ya thats what i was hoping..... wee shalll seeee

 

[linnemeyerhere]

These new AMD cards are getting mad reviews and are a real value !

 

[N00berG00ber]

its crazy the price to performance! its comparable to a gtx 770 at 150$ less! i wonder what my benchmark score will be eventually i want to mod the stock bios and flash higher clocks then flash it to the 2nd bios.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

You'll want to watch this review:

 

[N00berG00ber]

awesome! they are great cards! im very hapy with mine

 

[Solarstarshines]

its crazy the price to performance! its comparable to a gtx 770 at 150$ less! i wonder what my benchmark score will be eventually i want to mod the stock bios and flash higher clocks then flash it to the 2nd bios.

Correction my young lad you can only flash Bios 1 Bios 2 is flash protected !

 

[N00berG00ber]

whats weird tho that i noticed when i play skyrim with a crap load of graphic mods, im only getting about 60FPS but the gpu ussage is only at 60% max. it dosent go up to 100%...... any ideas on this? idk if my last one did this....

 

[N00berG00ber]

its crazy the price to performance! its comparable to a gtx 770 at 150$ less! i wonder what my benchmark score will be eventually i want to mod the stock bios and flash higher clocks then flash it to the 2nd bios.

Correction my young lad you can only flash Bios 1 Bios 2 is flash protected !

i dont think so..... some guy who reviewed it said that the switch was on bios 2 (mine was too. i switched it back to 1) and his computer wouldent boot because it was saying that there was no GPU installed. he switch it to bios 1 and it booted fine. so i think bios 2 is empty. when i get home ill switch it to 2 and see if it boots. maybe thats why its running 30mhz slower than advertised......

 

[N00berG00ber]

Solar, how do you mod the bios to a higher core and memory clock and maybe voltage? then flash that bios to number 1 or 2?

 

[Solarstarshines]

Solar, how do you mod the bios to a higher core and memory clock and maybe voltage? then flash that bios to number 1 or 2?

Well I don't know what that guy is smoking because both of my cards are running on the second bios and not number 1 because one of my cards when I got it back from visiontek didn't take the bios flash on one like my other one did so I had to switch them both to stock bios on number 2

Now your particular card I wouldn't fool around with that yet unless AMD releases something to up your card

I don't think they will even go there like they did with the 7970 because they totally F'upped that one seriously

People like me got the cards the first two weeks and then they release GHZ ed like wtf
and to add insult to injury they wouldn't upgrade it like they should

Anyway I don't think you need to fool with the Bios anyway there is no gain if you already have the second top card I don't think any flashing will gain any performance right now anyway

 

[Dude]

I agree, don't mess with the bios. You can play with some overclocking but it's early in the life of the card to mess with the bios.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Ya. I wasn't planing on it I just wanted to learn how to do it. I'm not even OCing rite now... Lol I have to reason to. Its fast enough. but I learned that I Have to install MSI gaming app to get the extra 30mhz. I also found another BIOS on tech power up. I may try flashing that one. It says it has some fixes with VRM overhearing and such. I'll look into it more when I get back to my PC and see what version I have on. Etc.

 

[N00berG00ber]

With that whining, I'll see how it goes in the next few months. If it still happens I'll contact MSI for a replacement.

 

[Solarstarshines]

After searching and searching I found a bios I could flash my card to the correct way and yay it works now I am going to work some Afterburner settings

 

[N00berG00ber]

After searching and searching I found a bios I could flash my card to the correct way and yay it works now I am going to work some Afterburner settings

Haha nice!

Ya u have to do it in dos once they are bricked. i learned thay the hard way....haha