Hello,
I recently bought a R9 280X DC2T graphics card from Asus and ever since I put the card in my system I'm experiencing stability issues.
The first 5 minutes ingame I started getting artifacts in Battlefield 4. I have read that the memory chips used in the card were not designed
to operate at higher clock speeds than 1500 Mhz with 1.5V. The default clock for the memory on this particular model was 1600 Mhz on 1.6V.
First I thought it was my video card but after half an hour playing on another map, I didn't get the artifacts anymore. Later on I did start getting them again.
After a while my PC would suddenly shut down with an error message "Asus anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit" and rebooted.
From then on this started to happen very frequently but totally random. Sometimes in idle state other times while gaming.
After the shutdown it can take up to 2 tries before the system successfully reboots. So I started troubleshooting in the following order:
Set memory clock speed of the graphics card on 1500 Mhz with MSI Afterburner (After I did this I got my first power surge, totally random so it seems afterwards..); Put off Anti-Surge protect via UEFI BIOS (I got several other pc shutdowns without the error message since I disabled the Anti-surge.); Put in my old Asus HD6950 graphics card (Same problems here); Unplugged everything from my AX860i PSU and did a self-test which was successful; Updated my motherboard BIOS to newest version (Getting desperate...:sigh!:); Put my power supply cable (6+2pin) into another PCI-E port of my PSU (Ran fine for an hour or 2 yesterday and today when I put my new graphics card back in,
my pc shut down again after the first 5 minutes. At this very moment I'm typing this, there hasn't been a power surge for ~3 hours.)
My PC specs:
Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 750D PSU: AX 860i Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VI Formula (C2) Processor: Intel Core i5 4670K CPU cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600 CL9 LP Graphics card: ASUS r9 280x DCII Top HDD: WD Green 1TB SSD: Samsung 840 EVO Basic 250GB
As you can see, I already tried a few things but without any success for the moment. In a couple of days I will try to test my system with a different PSU from a friend
to see if it's my system or the PSU which is causing these problems. Note that every shutdown is random. It can happen every few minutes or every few hours. I will also add a logfile from my PSU.
I really hope someone can help me because I'm kind of stuck right now until I can get my buddy to test my system with his PSU. Thanks.:winking:
Kind regards. logFile.zip
