Asus R9 290 Issues.....

Thanks for thelpful advce, Id be better of selling it I think to make way for one that will work better, what can you recomend me?

If you want to get another 290 (trust me they're fine, you've just had a bad 'un) I'd say Sapphire, Powercolor, Club3D and (if you're really into looks) XFX are the ones to look at. In particular I'd get a Sapphire Vapor-X. It might make sense to spend the extra and get a 390 though.
 
The 290 is, as barnsley said, a capable card. If your not looking to upgrade, i wouldnt worry right now, there are some big leaps coming soon with the use of HBM and next year is Nvidias launch of the Pascal chips (big performance leap from what i hear). Hope you get a better stable card returned.
 
I have the same 290 i get black hard crash screens from time to time and the cooler on it is garbage - the card whont oc even 1mhz with out adding extra voltage or it artifacts (had to give the card allmost 1.4v's just to get 1100/1500 out of it for a benchmark and it ran at 95c)
apparently the heatsinks are not fitted corectly on them and doesn't make contact with chip corectly....might take it apart and skim it
 
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