hey guys. I'm experiencing something weird - OC'd my r9 290 vapor X to 1100 - 1400 with +20% pl on trixx this afternoon, ran a couple 3d mark tests etc and everything was fine. in game too. just loaded skyrim to push graphics a bit, temp didnt go up too much and remained under 60° (3dmark was stable with a max temp of 68°) since then my trixx kept peaking up to 146° for a second and jumped back to 40 at idle (it didnt peak at all ingame!) and sometime reads 0. gpu Z kept a similar log with a min temp of 0 and a max of 323!!!! which is more than alarming. anyone experienced this? could it just be the sensor? anything i can do to test that out? my card is still under warranty but I hope I won't have to return it. thanks edit: with trixx shut down gpu z read a stable temp ranging from 38 to 41.
probably trixx ****ing with gpu-z. I remember trixx crashes as soon as you opened msi afterburner back when I had my 7950.
Probably related: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=404085 I wouldn't trust Trixx. It gave me comparable problems several years back. Try modifying the BIOS if you want personal voltage/clock settings. Much more reliable when done properly, but might be risky/tricky.
I don't think it's a conflict between the 2 - fan speed was going accordingly (vacuum noise for about a second etc) ye it seems to be the same issue. well I won't go through bios I don't have enough knowledge for that, I'll probably just uninstall trixx and reinstall AB. at least it seems like its not permanent damage as the card behaved normally tonight during idle. thanks
I'd suggest being very careful with multiple polling programs at the same time. Can't even remember how many times that I've locked up my machine by using Afterburner (older versions of it) to monitor voltage, then forgetting I had Afterburner running and starting up GPU-Z. I've done this dozens of times though with erroneous readings, hardlocks, and other anomalies caused by multiple tools doing low level access to my Fury-X concurrently. Nothing long term bad has happened, you're probably just fine. -It's been just fine as long as I've disabled low-level access in at least one of the two tools. Not sure you can in TriXX though, but I do with GPU-Z and Afterburner concurrently all the time. Far as TriXX, its readings and application of voltage were always normal manually applying a +36 mv bump for quite awhile (hundreds of boots, minus the times I had two tools going at once). Now that Afterburner 4.2 is out-- I've swapped purely because Afterburner properly applies voltage on startup.
I always find it harder to overclock my GPU using TriXX (screen flash and flickering) than with Afterburner.
I would say that risk of conflict between monitoring softwares is much higher under win10. I gave up on HWiNFO64, as it was drastically affecting DPC latency, causing micro freezes in movie playback and was stopping Guildwars2 till <ALT+TAB> and back.
alright then you guys must be right I didn't consider that could be an issue I uninstalled both gpu-z and trixx and am now running AB (but the custom fan control doesn't seem to be working, idk) clocked back to 1100 as I get flickers running 3dmark above that value - same as I did with Trixx
