Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 black screen restart overclock fix?

[HeyItsChris]

Hi, is there a Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 black screen restart overclock fix?

 

At stock voltage, it's fine 1.250v, but with 1.280V which runs at 1.283V at the VRM at 1200Mhz core has no artifacts & is stable under an artifact scan using Kombuster.

 

The second I load into Call Of Duty Vanguard, it restarts & I have to hold power button & reset for it to post again.

 

I know it's not the CPU overclock, because I ran the CPU back to stock & It still did it.

 

What do you think could be the problem?  I suspect the ASIC Max Temperature is the issue, I changed it from 95*C to 88*C for safety.

 

The GPU Core & VRM only hits like maybe 60*C load so it's not overheating, but maybe it is somewhere else.

 

I have the POWER LIMIT @ 225W 225A which shouldn't be the issue either.

 

Thanks

[HeyItsChris]

Hey I was messing with the card again, the WINDFORCE R9 290 & Its perfectly stable stock & with the VDDC offset disabled it yields +100mV more so from like 1.150V to 1.250V, its stable at stock frequency with the 1.250V & if I use AMD Adrenalin software to overclock from 1040MHZ to 1188MHZ, it's stable.  Although if I set it to 1188MHZ in the BIOS, it crashes immediately...

[HeyItsChris]

I updated the BIOS from original F3, to F5 & it's a lot better now.  I get 1.288V for benchmarks only & games black screen but can pull 1225Mhz core 1425mhz memory on fast timings strap.