BasqueMaster
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- Nov 6, 2016
Hi friends,
So here's my story, and I hope someone can help me. I have an Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-x and while other than a very short stint when I first bought it have been ruining her at stock speeds of 1030 clock for the gpu and 1400 for the ram. For the heck of it I decided it was time to push the limits and see what this baby could handle last night and in the process of inching my way towards the max, whilst inebriating myself in the process. I got it all the up to a stable 1200 gpu clock and a whopping 1675 mhz memory clock with the voltage all out. Now don't ask me cause I can't logically surmise where my brain was on this but for some reason I decided to give her a big push over the edge and try out 1750 as my next step. Low and behold that was too much for my baby to handle the screen started to flicker in Heaven, I shut that down and when the whole screen went black shut down the whole system. Upon restarting after a min to cool down, screens on through post and even window starts with the logo and spinning loading wheel of balls, but when it tries to let Windows take control I get nothing but a blank screen. I haven't spent a huge amount of time trying to fix this yet but I'm worried. I switched out the graphics card and was able to get into Windows and uninstall the overclocking utility then swapped it back in with the same result. That was my ace in the hole if you will and it failed, next step is to reinstall crimson and hope that's enough. I was writing this as much as a warning and as a cry for help cause I really don't want my baby to have died on me, she's been so good to me for the last couple of years and I would hate to see her go thanks to a drunken mistake. Input would be greatly appreciated thanks for reading.
BasqueMaster
Asus Crosshair-V Formula-Z
AMD-FX 8320 @4.5Ghz
EVGA 2400Mhz ram
Sapphire R9 290 Currently in distress
PNY 240GB SSD
So here's my story, and I hope someone can help me. I have an Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-x and while other than a very short stint when I first bought it have been ruining her at stock speeds of 1030 clock for the gpu and 1400 for the ram. For the heck of it I decided it was time to push the limits and see what this baby could handle last night and in the process of inching my way towards the max, whilst inebriating myself in the process. I got it all the up to a stable 1200 gpu clock and a whopping 1675 mhz memory clock with the voltage all out. Now don't ask me cause I can't logically surmise where my brain was on this but for some reason I decided to give her a big push over the edge and try out 1750 as my next step. Low and behold that was too much for my baby to handle the screen started to flicker in Heaven, I shut that down and when the whole screen went black shut down the whole system. Upon restarting after a min to cool down, screens on through post and even window starts with the logo and spinning loading wheel of balls, but when it tries to let Windows take control I get nothing but a blank screen. I haven't spent a huge amount of time trying to fix this yet but I'm worried. I switched out the graphics card and was able to get into Windows and uninstall the overclocking utility then swapped it back in with the same result. That was my ace in the hole if you will and it failed, next step is to reinstall crimson and hope that's enough. I was writing this as much as a warning and as a cry for help cause I really don't want my baby to have died on me, she's been so good to me for the last couple of years and I would hate to see her go thanks to a drunken mistake. Input would be greatly appreciated thanks for reading.
BasqueMaster
Asus Crosshair-V Formula-Z
AMD-FX 8320 @4.5Ghz
EVGA 2400Mhz ram
Sapphire R9 290 Currently in distress
PNY 240GB SSD
