Ebay Bargains - The £30 ($40) "Unstable" R9 290 GPU - Can We Fix It?

[@rainisbad9457]

Haha I’m RainIsBad on eBay and I’m the one who sold you the gpu

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Hey man just got your eBay message :D

[@Rainbow__cookie]

Congrats i love when fans sell hardware to this guy 😂

[@lemonkey7763]

How the fuck did u find him 😂😂😂😂

[@connornobbs3487]

Am i the only one who just realized that this dude has his address?

[@randomchannel9331]

@@connornobbs3487 yep he does

[@raginghusky361]

i got a "faulty" 1060 6gb which i was told that the fan wasn't spinning but video was showing but it turned off after 10 minutes of use. so i bought it for £15 of this guy at my local car boot sale and the fan wasn't even connected and there was no thermal paste on it so keep you eye out for these bargains :D

[@daniellee6912]

Lucky

[@InfernosReaper]

If the fan wasn't connected, it probably cooked the thermal paste away. That can happen with enough heat.

[@TheUglydandy]

You lucky husktard!

[@SummonerArthur]

Lucky mustard!

[@brainyadmiral5929]

RagingHusky your a lucky dog

[@sualehirfan2514]

The second channel is pretty good

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks :)

[@sualehirfan2514]

RandomGaminginHD ur welcome and u are also a car geek as well

[@kopasz777]

Try undervolting it.

[@tibiosocialdemocrataxxx4146]

I was about to say the same, that will help for sure

[@octavioredoni5506]

Me too.

[@letto18]

Yeah, even if it's underclocked it should still perform well for the price paid!

[@BGlevelextreme]

Yepp Undervolting definitely helps! Got an baked HD7870 for free bc the owner said it overheats after baking, got it for free, undervolt it Boom 80C instead of over 100C at 100% usage.

[@Honkarakiri]

How do you even undervolt a graphics card? Everywhere I look it just says to increase the clock for the voltage range on Afterburner which is basically overclocking. Can't seem to be able to properly undervolt like on Intel XTU, for example.

[@WayStedYou]

I will predict crusty thermal paste. Thermal pads on VRM might be not sititng on properly if its getting that hot after thermal paste change.

[@robertt9342]

WayStedYou . So, I guess you were wrong.

[@christopherjames9843]

WayStedYou, he changed the thermal paste. There could be an issue with the thermal pads on the fets.

[@Tico2858]

Yea, there are no thermal pads

[@darksn0w]

It was the die temperature that was hitting 90+.

[@Tico2858]

Charlie Brawn the which would be getting hotter and the sensor is also picking up the memory modules

[@Stjaernljus]

iirc 90+ degrees C is normal for a R9 290

[@tenow]

yup, this card works fine at 95 degrees as intended. If it shuts down - it might need reflowing.

[@MuhammadReza-xi5jw]

I have an R9 290 with the stock cooler but temps do not rise higher than 78C with a "still" acceptable fan curve, I mean my room cooler makes more noise and I use headphones anyway.

[@lukatosic4447]

thats still way too hot for normal gpus altho i like its performance i wouldnt risk it overheating and damaging my MOBO

[@djsahilking3807]

GTX 750ti 80c is normal lol😂😂😂

[@Najvalsa]

90C+ isn't normal, it can just handle a max temp of 95C, so 90C is doable. Normal is below 80C.

[@ScottieNiven]

I bought a GTX 690 from ebay for around €20, it was water damaged and the part of the PCI express connector was all burnt up. Luckily it was just the power delivery pins, I was able to remove some of the burnt circuit board, pull up the power traces and solder a wire that jumped to the 8pin power connector. And sucess! It works flawlessly, I dont use it in my main rig, but it happily sits in my old i7 2600k build just in case. I would love to get a second GTX 690 and run them in Quad SLI just for shits and giggles. But I have not found another for a reasonable price!

[@daevster6663]

ScottieNiven you better find a power supply that can juice all of that raaaaw poooowaaa

[@bananya6020]

nice repair xD

[@isaakharms2656]

Recently I picked up an apevia PC w an fx6300, 8gb of ram, a 600 watt psu and an hd 5770. A non profit was giving it away because they had no idea what was in it (also included a monitor,mouse,keyboard,printer, and a speaker system) but it might be a cool video idea seeing if anyocal businesses have cheap pcs. That whole thing cost me 50 usd, and the mb was a sabertooth 990fx r2

[@thecathat2725]

Holy cow, nice deal! From what I can see, that FX6300 is somewhat better than a first-gen i5, but hexa-core. And that GPU will surely work wonders for some older games and some new ones. But what about the monitor?

[@isaakharms2656]

TheCatHat 27 I cant even tell if it's a monitor, it might be a small TV. But the power button and volume controls are similar to the xbox one power button, they're not even buttons. 1080p led and probably about 24 inches. Samsung as well

[@isaakharms2656]

TheCatHat 27 also has a side panel window and the fans glow blue lol

[@ScoriacTears]

niiiice.

[@thecathat2725]

Check the model and see if it has the input latency of a tv. That would still be very good for this deal, but if it has that 70 ms lag then it would hinder your gaming experience.

[@magmagon5572]

the problem is that even broken cards sell for alot GTX970s for $110+ r9 390s for $100+ I did see a r9 380 for $45 tho

[@Jonathan-ol9si]

C2Lception there's a 7950 for 50 euro on eBay rn

[@symycosma262]

Nice

[@Z3CHYD]

I got my R9 390 for $100 with no issues in original box, but then again it was a friend who upgraded lol

[@magmagon5572]

Z3CHYD yea, unfortunately I have no friends who are upgrading, only building their first systems

[@magmagon5572]

Z3CHYD heck, I saw a broken 7950 going for $100. Thats the price I expect for working ones!

[@jorgealvarezjimmy]

install mlu bios for reference 290/290x. makes the card cooler and faster

[@BoyStinker]

thanks

[@agsechogd6406]

hey, i have a gigabyte reference R9 290... can you help with it?

[@waseemh3863]

Try going super getto and just pulling off the cooler and added a cpu cooler or something (please)

[@christopherjames9843]

Waseem, that won't work. The mosfets and memory chips need active cooling.

[@OutOfRangeDE]

christopher james just buy some alu mini heatsinks for them and let a case fan blow at them. Easily enough.

[@ericta5492]

Didn’t that one guy from that channel like DIY perks or something do that when he made a wooden pc case and wanted everything to be silent?

[@waseemh3863]

Eric Ta Yeah I seem to recall that

[@ericta5492]

Waseem H yeah he did, just checked his channel.

[@edniellee992]

Holy shit I just bought a 290x with the same problem thanks for making this video I got mine for 20 dollars on a Craigslist and pick up and did this and the CARD WORKED thank you took me a while to do the uninstalling of the drivers and install them again replaced the thermal paste as well but the HDMI port does not work only the dp one worked but thanks for making this video holy shit this was destiny

[@albertcazares9092]

What a coincidence, just bought an r9 390

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nice :)

[@radioactivebitflip8873]

I just bucked myself an RX 570 for cheaps.

[@antonlindberg8796]

Hey same! Got the Sapphire Nitro a few weeks ago for 100€. Undervolted it and it works like a charm.

[@albertcazares9092]

Anton Lindberg Knowing the current graphics card prices I gave in and bought it for $180 (cheapest rx 580 was 350 though)

[@antonlindberg8796]

Albert Cazares I bought it from a miner, but we made a signed paper that he gives me 3 months of warranty. Ran it for 10 hours in Furmark, no problems. Very cheap price for very high performance.

[@james2042]

Undervolt the chip, make sure the vrm and memory are also making contact, and even try ramping the fan a bit. I know these cards run hot, but it sounds like that card is not working properly as overheating at stock shouldn't be an issue (especially since they are "rated" for 100c operation)

[@largejoe2195]

these ran at 94c like 100 percent of the time even brand new, so idk. they would usually ramp the fan up to keep it at about 94c

[@james2042]

@@largejoe2195 I owned one for 5 years I'm talking from experience. Not to mention this comment is 4 years old

[@largejoe2195]

@@james2042 look it up, almost every blower style varient of this gpu ran at 94c stock

[@james2042]

@@largejoe2195 I Owned One I Know

[@MrEditsCinema]

I got the sapphire r9 290x vapour x (best r9 290x) for £80 posted. Came with the box too. Best looking card I have ever seen, the backplate is just crazy

[@maruf16khan]

We need benchmarks for cars too!

[@joeygreathouse3029]

You mean dyno?

[@humandebris666]

made my day lol

[@Alexander_l322]

No he means a benchmark when you back into a bench and it leaves a mark.

[@sonsofblades]

The r9 290 still is a monster. Powerhungry, though. I had one, and couldn't complain about the performance for gaming. I don't recommend the blower version, only the Sapphire TRi-X version, as that had an amazing cooler.

[@zanderxymox]

I was lucky enough to get one of these for my personal system a couple years ago. It was a very powerful card, but the blower fan was insanely loud and made me sweat even in the winter. Thankfully though I saw the need for these cards and turned an initial $150 into $350 during the mining craze :) nice little $200 profit off this old beast. Now it's making someone else's room a little hotter here in the summer time.

[@henrywehrmann429]

My XFX aftermarket cooler takes my R9 290x down to "acceptable" temperatures around 70-80 degrees. Definitely worth it. Its super surprising that the card didn't just throttle its clock speed to compensate for the temperature. If there are no hardware failures this is super weird as I have seen my 290x throttle down when it tries to draw too much power.

[@KiraSlith]

Overheating like that sounds like faulty on-board power management, which could lead to the chip getting 12v instead of the 1.2-4v most high speed logic uses. I'd suggest poking at the capacitors (Probably Tantalum SMDs knowing modern hardware) with a multimeter and checking bare PCB photos online against your card to see if you are missing components.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nice :) thanks for the advice

[@TheVacras]

MortifiedDumplin wouldn’t anything supposed to run on ~1.3V pretty much blow up instantly when it receives 12V?

[@KiraSlith]

Tryhardus Not necessarily if the amperage restrictions are still working. 12v@0.025v wouldn't quite instantly fry the chip, but it would leave it consistantly running hot and inevitably damage the silicon processor. Either way it's just one possibility of many considering how complex VRM can get at times, for all I know, it could be a dead short to ground in the VRM or elsewhere entirely, or a fused capacitor vital to voltage smoothing, or something else entirely. Thus my broad stroke suggestion.

[@CallumDavis_]

The 290 just notoriously runs hot. Best would be to try to undervolt

[@1pcfred]

Yes 12V would instantly fry the electronics. Things happen very quickly in the world of semiconductors. Like nanoseconds.

[@janaebert3059]

Your voice is relaxing.

[@orioloop]

Should I buy a used GTX 780 for £50?

[@KyleConnolly]

yes

[@mrpositronia]

Yes. Sell it on if you don't like it.

[@padre443]

You'd be mad not to at that price.

[@shutupwalter6628]

Yes! I use a 780 and I'm still able to play everything at highest settings, 60fps par a few very recent titles. At that price it's definitely worth it.

[@IgorGiganskiANtiatom]

it's a bargain, it is still a beast of a card, i have it too!

[@hjern6389]

Everything about this channel is just low budget, the video guality the sound quality and the products being reviewed. I love it. :D

[@yuuji_]

I have the exact same gpu, got it at 1156 core and 1606 vram (but +88mV) and with a custom fan curve it never goes over 83°C, even when playing PUBG. And I got a graphic score over 13 500 in Fire Strike.

[@hrayz]

I have had both the R9 290 and R9 290X, their design is to go to 95°C and use the fan curve to keep at that temperature. That's normal operation. Observe the clocks for throttling to check for problems.

[@surrealmemes3518]

RandomGaminginHD excellent video! I've learned to read the desc. on "broken" items as well. That's how I got my MSI GS70 laptop with a GTX 970M for only $300.

[@xrobert4939]

your one of the best PC KZbinrs out there man keep up the good work and lets see if you will get to 1 mill (subbed since 10k and watched you since)

[@brandishwar]

Two additional things: Along with the aftermarket cooler, consider also replacing whatever thermal pads come with the aftermarket with ones from FujiPoly. They are very high performance thermal pads. And when you plug in the card to the power supply, use separate cables to the 6-pin and 8-pin. Don't use the "pigtail" connector. That'll ensure you have pretty stable power delivery as well, which should help stability.

[@YakovGYP]

I bought one for $90 US on a local sales page and put it in a budget build last summer for a series of videos I've made. It did run extremely hot and was extremely loud. Ended flipping it for an EVGA GTX 970 SSC with a few dollars profit at the end. Even my older MSI R9 290 Gaming with the custom MSI cooler ran hot to where I ended up water cooling it with an AIO liquid cooler and a Kraken bracket.

[@badnewsbruner]

Dude... I fucking love you. For real, I ALWAYS get so excited when you upload. It seems we are nostalgic for the same types of things. Also, you're speaking voice is very soothing. Keep up the great work man :)

[@get-in-2-get-out774]

Congratz on your new 290, its still a very nice performer.

[@halethewhale]

Your a car guy aswell! This channel gets better the more you dig 👍🏻

[@ArtMorte]

I had an R9 200 with double fans that would overheat. The problem was that the lubricant in one of the fans had dried up and the fan wasn't getting enough rounds-per-minute. It was also, stupidly, a fan that was welded shut, so I couldn't just prise it open. Soooo, I ended up drilling a hole in the back of it with a 2mm drill until I reached the shaft or ball bearings or whatever that part is called, put a few drops of silicon-based oil in there and closed it up with gaffer tape. Worked just fine then.

[@thatonedude5237]

I think it would be cool if you did a mid way update video on the effects of undervolting and underclocking to reduce heat output and improve stability of the card. I run my 480 8g at 1200mhz and -200mv to reduce heat in the summer time and crank it back to stock in the winter because it runs about 75-60c at about 65-78f ambient winter-summer.

[@bjornroesbeke]

Seeing your beloved (soon to be replaced) graphics card here has something special. "...turned my bedroom into a sauna", that's my card allright! I had to install an airconditioning system to mitigate it.

[@trblemayker5157]

Your "Welcome" is sublime.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thank you :D

[@nathanhamman418]

If the fan isn't running the way it should, CRC 556 on the bearings could help it run a bit better. Though you didn't say anything about it. You could also undervolt by about 10% without much if any performance loss

[@Xearin]

Nice. Yeah, I'd try reflashing the stock bios to see if anything changes. Also try and monitor the voltages and clockspeeds that are reported under load. Might be a boost related thing that is messing with you. Though I think a nice Arctic aftermarket cooler will sort this card out nicely.

[@techluvin7691]

The card has a dual bios. I had similar issues. I switched to the second bios, entered windows, switched back to the first, and flashed new rom file. No more overheating, no more random reboots, etc.

[@littlemarge5901]

I always wanted one of those

[@spinkick9270]

MC Ravioli me too.

[@tamoo6028]

Wtf.

[@Cheese_1337]

he's buying all the good deals and doesn't left for us any :D

[@KooYu]

Unfortunately this 'trend' with repairing faulty grphics cards has been going on for some time now, and prices in 2018 have been skyrocketing. It is now very hard finding a decently priced card, most of them are priced 3/4 of a normally used gpu of the same model.

[@DoomWalker42]

RGHD is the god of used PC hardware resurrecting faulty hardware like it's a walk in the park.

[@NiyogRVenusupergamer]

Been here since before 10k and my god, you've become big!

[@tylerand]

It's neat how many computer enthusiasts are also car enthusiasts. I am one myself, and at least a few other PC enthusiast channels i follow are the same way.

[@chrishunter7065]

didn't even know about your second channel, subscribed

[@TheRems710]

My bro found a R9 290 Asus DirectCU II OC for 50€ brand new ! It works very well & Asus did a good job with the heatsink. It is still noisy at 100% fan speed.

[@ej_tech]

Set the blower fan to max speed. It will sound like a hair dryer but it should keep it from overheating.

[@christopherjames9843]

The "cooler" pretty much either works or doesn't. You have the coldplate with the thermal pads over the mosfets and memory chips and you have the copper heatsink that sits over the cpu. On the other side you have the radiator and vapor chamber. Very little to go wrong except the fan not working. The cooling fins clogged with crap or the die area not contacting the copper plate properly.

[@arhamumer1332]

Iam going to buy the card in 1-2weeks and your video timing is perfect

[@jorgel2029]

Personally I have this same problem but with a r7 260x which runs hot even if I change the termal paste and the termal pads, even with a fan at full speed cooling the card by the side doesn't help... I haven't found what causes this issue yet but... I found a "temporal" solution which is undervolting it... undervolting the card with in the AMD Radeon Settings -> Games -> Global Settings -> Global Wattman and lowering the mV for the GPU helped me to reduce the overhiting from 80-100° (depending on the game) to 73°C at max in the most demanding titles that this Video Card can run... but ofc you lose some horsepower I hope this help you at least to make some tests or use the video card without issues and thank you very much for the videos man you are awesome!

[@TheTermi1]

1:20 My sides... I have a card like this (Asus), with the same blower style cooler. It was running so hot, I had to change the cooler to a frickin AIO setup. It was so bad with the stock cooler+ a couple of fans in the case, that it started thermal throttling in GTA V after 5 minute playing. With aio cooler the max temp is around 70 °C.

[@TheXev]

In 2012 I bought a Radeon 5770 that hadn't "been tested" in its description. I received the card in its original box but no anti-static bag?! Plugged the card in, but it was running HOT. Replaced the thermal paste... and it was fine. I got a $150 card for $30. I mined the piss out of that card, bought a Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 just before bitcoin prices crashed in 2013. Mined the R9 290 into 3x XFX RX 580's 8GBs. Used those three RX 580's to buy two more MSI Vega 64's. I haven't paid for a video card in cash since that $30 chance on that 5770! As for my time with the R9 290. Undervolt it. Radeon cards can EASILY take a 100mV undervolt (the Vega's I can undervolt by 150mV), and it will lower temps and keep the cards nice and stable.

[@cloroxbleach5771]

Please remind us at the beginning of the video when you put up new vids on your second channel, the notifications aren't all that reliable these days Edit: You still surprise me even to this day with the bargains you find

[@BGlevelextreme]

Undervolt Helps with High Temps, with only 1% Performance loss usually

[@mrbenjaski]

Keep going mate, Nice video!

[@woodant1981]

Youre just like me mate, you live in Kent(I come from Margate) and your intrests are landies and PCs, good luck with your channel, you inspired me to build my 2500k system, then i sold it😁 I built an 8350k system after I saved some money keep making this content it's so good, keep it up man👌

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I'm in Margate quite a lot actually :D Thanks for the kind words :)

[@woodant1981]

RandomGaminginHD that's ok man you taught me pretty much everything I know 😁 I've built stuff off your channel and it's got me through really well until my new system, thanks so much!!😁love to meet You one day haha😁

[@ig33ku]

I am glad to see that you have a lot of fans.

[@dhruvpatel3323]

Why do you have so little subscribers? You really deserve a lot more for the effort you put into your videos.

[@zodiotekgaming]

There is a switch on the side of the card that changes the fan from Quiet to Uber mode apparently, if it was on quiet mode it wouldn't have been turning quick as needed, but they are noisy

[@Honeypot-x9s]

Reflash the vbios! I purchased a few “non working”. “For parts”. “Unstable”. And “no video output” cards and in 80% of the cases all it ever was was the last owner installed and unstable miner vbios on the cards... either partially corrupted/completely corrupted or just a bad version/mismatched version. For AMD cards from this general era, HD7xxx series all way up to R9-3xx series is usually down to someone flashing the bios with different memeory timings or wrong memory subsystem. I had an R9-390X I found vbios flashed was mismatched with the physical hardware. Example is SYHynix flash with Micron physical memory. And it usually doesn’t result in no video usually results in black screens and crashes. 80% of my cards I recovered is down to bad vbios... reflash it and usually fixes it. Not always that simple but worth it. Just make sure you don’t reflash while that card is primary card, reflash it as secondary that way more stable and doesn’t crash during reflash which can sometimes spike it to 3D clocks if it’s primary. As for over heating, I suspect it’s a bad cooler. R9-290 is a very devilishly hot card specially from blower, but I suspect heat pipes or block is damaged in someway or warped enough not making proper contact and less that ideal surface area. R9-290 should ave around 80C on NT-H1 thermal paste.

[@DigBipper188]

The 290 series are known flamethrowers. A very high quality thermal compound or even liquid metal is never a bad idea (unless the heatsink is aluminium. Which on most R9 200 cards it certainly is not.)

[@Bigcrog]

another great video mate, ive often been tempted to buy a faulty card and have a go at fixing it,,,,,and youve just convinced me to do it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lol wish me luck

[@leeadkins1360]

I used to have a 5850 which was solid for years but then through no obvious change it suddenly started running SUPER hot. Looking into it, it seemed to be running a much higher voltage than it should have been. Might be worth a quick check if its normal levels on that card.

[@svhx1]

Remove the plastic cover. Zip tie case fans on the heatsink. Undervolt it too if it is needed. No point in paying for an aftermarket cooler if you already have a heatsink.

[@irishgiant5150]

I recently upgraded from an R9 280 XFX to an RX 580. Honestly the 280 was still keeping up, and I use it in an emulation machine still.

[@Hennessy198]

I'm still running an R9 290 (Tri-X version) in my rig right now and it can kinda keep up with modern games still. Under 100% load, I get around 84° C, but at least it doesn't throttle or just plain overheat.

[@gdjaybee742]

90deg is normal for this card, if your card shuts down during play, most likely your card reached over 105deg and stayed there for a couple minutes. You need to keep low ambient temp in your room, maybe have a wind AC.

[@lankeydonkey3355]

Sounds as though the previous owner flashed it to a 290x bios as I remember it was the trend at the time, also the little pads on the VRM's might need changing as the boards VRM's get quite toasty However you're getting a new cooler and it will have them with the cooler if bought relatively new .

[@Ridley1911]

I can relate to this, i sold my RX480 from msi because it was delivering very unstable voltages, making the vcore throttle down and then up CONSTANTLY causing heavy stutters ingame, i "fixed" it by setting the power limits to -30, still, i sold it as faulty, so the person who bough it was well aware of it.

[@therealpizzagirl]

R9 290 is a classic GPU.

[@kloud4432]

The real pizza boy like the r9 280.

[@KhainesKorner]

I had a similar issue with a ASUS Direct CU II R9 290X. Did the same as you (change thermal paste) with the same issues. Turned out the heatsink was absolutely clogged full of fur, cos I have cats. It looked fine from just looking at the fan. So you might want to completely remove the heatsink and fan from the plastic shroud and see if it's clogged up. :)

[@jakegarrett8109]

Khaines Korner Yeah, I use 150 PSI air blower from my air compreesor to clean out cards. It was like a dust cloud of flying debris out of my clean looking AIO cooler. I was doing the same with a Titan Xp (blower card), but it didn't seem to work as well. I really don't want to take it apart and void my warranty on a $1200 GPU though...

[@KhainesKorner]

I honestly need something like that. I just rely on the childs toothbrush and IPA method. :)

[@jakegarrett8109]

Khaines Korner Oh yeah, it gets it almost completely dust free in just a few minutes. The toothbrush probably does a tiny bit better cleaning if you want it spotless.

[@moritz3344]

My GTX 980 ti with gigabytes 3 Fan desgin burns under 100% load with 83 degrees

[@MuhammadReza-xi5jw]

Considering an r9 290 has a higher TDP than even an 980Ti lol

[@Tico2858]

Bro, get some decent thermal paste or liquid metal and some thermal pads

[@pedromarinho18]

Buy some gelid gc extreme, I have an Gtx 980ti G1 gaming, before that I used Mx4 and I got max temps of 72° (not bad i know), but now with gelid i in the same game and settings have 60°. I was not expecting much from the paste, but i saw it in Tech Yes City KZbin Channel

[@moritz3344]

Tico2858 I followed your advice now it runs at 80 degree with 75% fan speed. Not that better but a bit

[@Tico2858]

Whatd you use? thermal paste or liquid metal? I bought a used r9 390 and it was running at 99c on %80 fan speed so I replaced all the thermal pads and put some thermal grizzly conductonaut now it runs at like 70c %60 fan speed under load, was a huge difference for me

[@GewelReal]

*signs Bob the Builder theme*

[@MadDoggyca]

i have a GTX 960 2 GIG having that issue.. as soon as u install the driver it dies... though from my testing and examine it dose not seem to be a heating issue..

[@IJoeAceJRI]

How hot does it run

[@MadDoggyca]

at the moment no higher then like 30c because the default SVGA driver dosen't get it to do anything.. the moment I put the driver it it dies... and I have to force the .ini file... because the NV driver dosen't even detect it..

[@MadDoggyca]

ya already reflashed useing a few bios files from techpower up VGA collection

[@TheSilviu8x]

Undervolt and underclock this puppy, it will still be a very capable card and the driver stunt was just brilliant! Also, the atrocious heat and power consumption will really go down. Congrats on the finding!

[@coinsagE46m3]

Pretty sweet deal; you get a relatively nice GPU AND a space heater all in one!

[@icalexander]

I run an R9 280x 3GB and It's still very relevant in 2018 absolutely smokes the RX460 it replaced and trades punches with 3GB 1060's all day. Best part is I got it for $60 and sold the RX480 for $80 and now people are selling the same card I bought for $160 or more lol

[@ace99asCaptainSlow]

I'd absolutely recommend pairing an NZXT kraken g12 with a cheap compatible 120mm AIO. I did that with my 1070 and I went from low 80's on air to low 50's.

[@eduardoavila646]

Just pray for the bga didnt got bad and when heated the expand and loose contact with the pcb. When the card heats itself too much, bga problems are pretty common.

[@ThePuffamanChannel]

Yess another car vid too what a treat:). Ty dude

[@H4nssoon]

Temperature isnt the issue here, The reference R9 290 has a temperature target of 95 degrees, That means it'll always try to run at 95 degrees to keep the fan rpm as low as possible :)

[@Konamerp]

I feel like this card was bios modded with a voltage increase. Would explain the sudden jump in temperature after any kind of load.

[@mohitvichare66]

in this case i would recommend to use V-sync which would not stress the card completely. and one more thing set Temperature Limit in MSI Afterburner so that if the card reaches that limit it could throttle itself instead of shutting down to cool...

[@michielroskam3877]

great work mate, i bought a faulty gtx 760 2gb for only 15 eu, replaced it bios with a stable version and get a banger of a card for only scrap money

[@Schtrigga]

I bought a defect R9 290 on the cheap once and couldn't get it to run. Fans spin up, but it doesn't get recognized in device manager (inserted along with another card) or generates an output at all. Still hoping to test it in a different System at some point, maybe with more success.

[@Xafia]

May i recommend an Arctic Accelero?

[@invadurzim7836]

2 things... 1.install msi afterburner.. 2.use auto fan control and set a fairly aggressive fan curve that kicks in early and you'll never have heating issues.... I have a evga gtx 970 SC it hits max 55*c with ambient room temp around 65*f

[@danielsummerville6799]

Intredasting video! 😁 I've had a punt or two on sketchy parts and allways come out worse from it so I just don't bother anymore (only it's included in a bundle with working parts and the value is there). Hoping the follow up is a success :)

[@mattthecasualgamer]

No Thermal pads on the Mosfets and also liquid in the cooling pipes on the heat sink has probably escaped due to a small crack in the solder.

[@OutOfRangeDE]

When you get a supermarket commercial in front of this!

[@GraveUypo]

it shouldn't crash, just throttle down. there's something actually faulty with the card. you could try to slightly underclock it, and undervolt it to get the rampant heat under control.

[@TheRealFobican]

You should try that thing you probably do on a regular basis with things you have a certain skepticism about on arrival: apply new thermal paste in case of a cooking unit.

[@ugh.idontwanna]

You should try having a go at undervolting it. More often than not you can get the temps down to something a lot more managable.

[@1pcfred]

Good luck to you with your card resurrection. I was wondering about that cheap gray thermal paste you tried to use. Might want to clean off all the old garbage too?

[@jens-erik2555]

I wold recommend re-flash the bios on the card withe factory R9 290 bios. som people flashed 290X boises on to this cards, ti may over volt the GPU and make it unstable. or the card could haw a old bitcoin mining bios on it not for gaming.

[@seancancook1]

lol what's you're summer time ambient temps like?

[@ShaoZapomnit]

Having one of those is like having a 1060 that just runs hot. Used to have a 290X crossfire but one eventually started to fail with blue line on the side righr of screen after removing the aio I had for it, putting it in my new Ryzen systen from a Xeon X58, sad it was. I could never tell what really killed it. If it was my hands, the cooler heatsink behind it, the oily thermal pads left overs or the bios flashes that corrupted the frame buffer, I was basically bummed. But made the last 290X live long enough, still alive to this day as of now I have a Vega 64 however, I do stand by the fact the 2/3/90/X were and are still the best cards ever created just because of how damn good the support is. Can undervolt as well be much colder with fps caps. Does really good in vulkan and dx12, it actually destroys the 980 and 1060 in low level api's which obliterate the 780ti which was meant to compete against, or the 970 who had an optimization edge at the time.

[@SmokeRook7]

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[@siqu7071]

HD

[@viktorkunov3969]

I just got one of these. Mine is from XFX. Same problems tho. The things i did to permanently fix it were: go to techpowerup; database; vga bios.... enter the correct specs and update the bios. Everything is fixed now. If you want try it, but first update only the second bios, and if everything goes perfect, update the first one as well. I recommend you install teamviewer for easy access if your screen goes black in the updating process. Install teamviewer, log to your account(important!), grant easy access(recommended). Hope it helps!

[@WildBaws]

Are you planning to make a second video with some kind of better cooling to further test the card and see if you can actually get the issues sorted? That'd be a great video imo, also love your channel. Don't know how I've never seen your channel before, but since recently I've sat and watched through a bunch of your videos, always looking forward to the next :o

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks man, yeah I will make a follow up soon :)