R9 280x rev 2 unstable, artifacts and flickering

[kiwi213]

Hello,

I have recently purchased a Gigabyte R9 280X Windforce 3X rev 2, and I get weird artifacts and flickering when playing games. I've tested it in Battlefield 4 and World of Warcraft.

After about half hour/ one hour, the game crashes and when I reopen it I get texture tearing and artifacts as well as flickering. I need to restart my system to get rid of it.

My bios version is F70, 015.041 and I am running at default clocks 1100 / 1500. My driver is 14.4. The card temps never go above 66 degrees.

The rest of the PC looks like

FX6350 @4.2Ghz
8GB DDR3 @1333mhz
Gigabyte 970a-UD3P
Corsair CX600 PSU
SSD+HDD

I've tried changing to to latest drivers 14.7 but the issue still persists. Right now I've down-clocked the memory by about 40mhz and it seems to not happen anymore, although I haven't had the time to test it a lot.

The latest gigabyte bios drivers are listed as 015.036 and 015.039 and I don't if I should flash them as they appear to be older?

Any help would be appreciated. I've read around other forums that people are having the same issues. Is there any custom bios or newer bios that fixes these issues?

Is there anything I can do besides RMA?

Thanks

[Kinbor]

I was so pissed when i bought this card that when i saw your topic, i registered only to maybe help you. I had same issues as you, but i could play only for a few minutes. What caused the problem for me and can be happening to you too is that your cards bios (version F70 or 015.041 in GPU-Z) GPU voltage is set too low at 1100 (boost mode) Mhz. Mine was set at 1.094V i think, while stable voltage is 1.26V . You can check that by running the game and GPU-Z at the same time and check maximum voltage readout. If its low like mine that is probably the problem.

With program VBE you can set your voltage (with unmodded bios) to 1.2V at 1000 and 1100Mhz, save bios to a new file than flash your card with ATIwinflash. This solved my problems, maybe it does yours too.

[decimox]

I can provide you the bios F60, which I currently have on my 2 r9 280x rev 2. It is stable at 1.2v for 1100mhz  which is stock voltage i think for all other 280x out there

[andrei80]

I know this thread is old, but here's the easy solution, for all those having this problem:
This card is dual bios. One bios is low voltage(no ideea why, it's not stable in 3D) and one is ok. Switch the bios and problems are gone. Thare's a bios switch near the crossfire connectors. Card was originally set on the bad bios.

[master1234]

I know this thread is old, but here's the easy solution, for all those having this problem:
This card is dual bios. One bios is low voltage(no ideea why, it's not stable in 3D) and one is ok. Switch the bios and problems are gone. Thare's a bios switch near the crossfire connectors. Card was originally set on the bad bios.

I was so pissed when i bought this card that when i saw your topic, i registered only to maybe help you. I had same issues as you, but i could play only for a few minutes. What caused the problem for me and can be happening to you too is that your cards bios (version F70 or 015.041 in GPU-Z) GPU voltage is set too low at 1100 (boost mode) Mhz. Mine was set at 1.094V i think, while stable voltage is 1.26V . You can check that by running the game and GPU-Z at the same time and check maximum voltage readout. If its low like mine that is probably the problem.

With program VBE you can set your voltage (with unmodded bios) to 1.2V at 1000 and 1100Mhz, save bios to a new file than flash your card with ATIwinflash. This solved my problems, maybe it does yours too.

There both comments are true. Open your hardware and you will see switch at the video card. I dont experience anymore artifacts. Thanks people.