Hello there.
I recently bought a XFX Core Edition R9 295X2 from Newegg for less than half its original retail price, about $650. A good upgrade over my long-in-the-tooth Zotac GTX 670 4GBs, especially for my new Samsung UD590D 4k monitor, and much cheaper than the somewhat superior GTX 980 SLI ($1,100, plus I am rather disgusted with nvidia for the whole 970 3.5GB fiasco, so I'd thought id try the other team)
In any case, I uninstall my nVidia drivers, used DriverSweeper among other utilities, and got on with it.
Installation into the below system went great, love the card itself, very high quality feel to it. I am always worried when I get a new card this cheap that it was refurbished or previously used but it appears that it's actually new... hooray!
Specs:
Cooler Master Cosmos II
EVGA SR-2
2x Intel Xeon X5650 overclocked basically permanently to 3.5 GHZ, both at or slightly above 1.2 volts. (max load temp on P95 about 63c)
2x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
24 GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz RAM
Corsair AX1200 1200w PSU
Multitude of HDDs.
I downloaded the newest AMD drivers previously and left the exe on my desktop so I could immediately get to it after installation.
Seemed to install fine.
Attempt to run CCC,
I get this
AMD Catalyst Control Center cannot be started.
There are currently no settings that could be configured using AMD Catalyst Control Center.
I uninstalled, cleaned again with driver sweeper, and reinstalled, same issue. Did this multiple times.
Even reinstalled Windows (begrudgingly, but the PC needed it anyway, getting bloated...)
Problem persisted.
Eventually I go to the device manager and notice this.
p://i.imgur.com/V4jaNl6.png[/url]
Apparently, the EVGA SR-2 has a NF200 chip, which apparently causes issues with the R9 series of cards from AMD.
However, my symptoms do not match any of the reported ones.
I have had NO BSODS whatsoever when the 295x2 was installed.
My issues: CCC wont start, the 2nd GPU has a code 43 error. GPU Z shows Crossfire disabled and doesn't report any info on the 2nd GPU.
Also tested a different PCI-E slot and the problems persisted.
So, what do you think?
Fundamental HW compatibility issue, broken 295X2, or something else?
First case is the worst of course, and Newegg has a no refund policy on this GPU (and alot of other GPUs) but I heard they can be persuaded? Experiences?
Second case is much better but somehow I doubt anything is wrong with it...
I recently bought a XFX Core Edition R9 295X2 from Newegg for less than half its original retail price, about $650. A good upgrade over my long-in-the-tooth Zotac GTX 670 4GBs, especially for my new Samsung UD590D 4k monitor, and much cheaper than the somewhat superior GTX 980 SLI ($1,100, plus I am rather disgusted with nvidia for the whole 970 3.5GB fiasco, so I'd thought id try the other team)
In any case, I uninstall my nVidia drivers, used DriverSweeper among other utilities, and got on with it.
Installation into the below system went great, love the card itself, very high quality feel to it. I am always worried when I get a new card this cheap that it was refurbished or previously used but it appears that it's actually new... hooray!
Specs:
Cooler Master Cosmos II
EVGA SR-2
2x Intel Xeon X5650 overclocked basically permanently to 3.5 GHZ, both at or slightly above 1.2 volts. (max load temp on P95 about 63c)
2x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
24 GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz RAM
Corsair AX1200 1200w PSU
Multitude of HDDs.
I downloaded the newest AMD drivers previously and left the exe on my desktop so I could immediately get to it after installation.
Seemed to install fine.
Attempt to run CCC,
I get this
AMD Catalyst Control Center cannot be started.
There are currently no settings that could be configured using AMD Catalyst Control Center.
I uninstalled, cleaned again with driver sweeper, and reinstalled, same issue. Did this multiple times.
Even reinstalled Windows (begrudgingly, but the PC needed it anyway, getting bloated...)
Problem persisted.
Eventually I go to the device manager and notice this.
p://i.imgur.com/V4jaNl6.png[/url]
Apparently, the EVGA SR-2 has a NF200 chip, which apparently causes issues with the R9 series of cards from AMD.
However, my symptoms do not match any of the reported ones.
I have had NO BSODS whatsoever when the 295x2 was installed.
My issues: CCC wont start, the 2nd GPU has a code 43 error. GPU Z shows Crossfire disabled and doesn't report any info on the 2nd GPU.
Also tested a different PCI-E slot and the problems persisted.
So, what do you think?
Fundamental HW compatibility issue, broken 295X2, or something else?
First case is the worst of course, and Newegg has a no refund policy on this GPU (and alot of other GPUs) but I heard they can be persuaded? Experiences?
Second case is much better but somehow I doubt anything is wrong with it...
Driver or Hardware issue, or both?
