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Title: R9 280X rev 2.0 Bios update - having stability issues
Post by: njskk2 on February 04, 2014, 08:12:53 am

so i am having major stability issues with my less than a month old Gigabyte R9280X Windforce ( rev 2.0 ) . i have been looking around and many people seem to be having stability issues. I am running the latest catalyst drivers and have even rebuilt my windows 7 machine twice.
Does anyone know if there is a newer driver available ? The gigabyte utility reports that my GPU bios version is F.60 and GPU-Z reports 015.038.000.003 .
Anyone know about newer bios version or any possible solution to the stability issues? i am about to return the graphics card because its annoying me so much.
 Specs of my macine :
MSI gaming motherboard ( very new, cant remember model )
10GB Ram
850 Corsair Gold PSU
128GB SSD

Title: Re: R9 280X rev 2.0 Bios update - having stability issues
Post by: Ppgtjmad on February 08, 2014, 12:37:26 pm

Hello there,

I'm having the exact same issue with my one week old R9 280X rev 2.0...

Screen flickering in 2D Mode (windows desktop) and black stripes IG (BF3, Minecraft...)

I guess it's because the card comes unlocked and is not stable... that's why artifacts are showing up... so RMA is the best option.

Title: Re: R9 280X rev 2.0 Bios update - having stability issues
Post by: Ppgtjmad on February 09, 2014, 11:19:00 am

Here are two examples :

http://hpics.li/2325a2a
http://hpics.li/82ff984

Title: Re: R9 280X rev 2.0 Bios update - having stability issues
Post by: Brucy on March 06, 2014, 12:24:30 pm

I recently bought two of these cards In February and I instantly began to notice the flicker. I thought I narrowed it down to one card and sent it away for RMA. Today the other I thought was working flicker free is now flickering by itself. This seems to be a very common complaint if you check other forums. Others seems to have gotten a BIOS upgrade to fix the issue. Heres my build:

Intel i5 3570K
ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
GIGABYTE GV-R928XOC-3GD REV2 Radeon R9 280X
Kingston Hyper-X Blu 16GB
Antec 1000 PSU

Gigabytes only recommendation was to RMA the card.

We need a solution.