kully1972
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Noticed playing Battlefield 4 that my FPS would drop from 60-70 to barely 40 and after some investigating the msi 280x gaming edition was dropping core clock speed to idle- 300-500 MHZ owing to high temp, 90 celcius but well within design parameters!
There are no bios fixes for the UEFI bios and after many hours of googling found a solution and thought I`d share the fix on this forum and how I`ll be honest, having long been a NVIDIA user I`m probably going back to them.
It transpired that I had to create a profile in CCC and edit the core clock and memory minimum setting ( idle clock) to the maximum clock. I also had to change the voltage range setting in the profile from 0850 to 1200 to 1000-1180 (1v to 1.18v) as the default max 1.2v was producing temps of over 103 degrees celcius and causing a shut-down
My problem is fixed but its really a work around and the other 280x , an XFX black edition runs happily at 1.275v.
All I can say having been a NVIDIA stalwart right up until my 580s gave up the ghost for 4k gaming I shall be returning to NVIDIA on my next upgrade.
I find this unacceptable from msi and TBH the drivers and crossfire support is generally much worse than NVIDIA. e.g. to date no FC4 crossfire profile.
Can`t wait for my next graphics card upgrade!
There are no bios fixes for the UEFI bios and after many hours of googling found a solution and thought I`d share the fix on this forum and how I`ll be honest, having long been a NVIDIA user I`m probably going back to them.
It transpired that I had to create a profile in CCC and edit the core clock and memory minimum setting ( idle clock) to the maximum clock. I also had to change the voltage range setting in the profile from 0850 to 1200 to 1000-1180 (1v to 1.18v) as the default max 1.2v was producing temps of over 103 degrees celcius and causing a shut-down
My problem is fixed but its really a work around and the other 280x , an XFX black edition runs happily at 1.275v.
All I can say having been a NVIDIA stalwart right up until my 580s gave up the ghost for 4k gaming I shall be returning to NVIDIA on my next upgrade.
I find this unacceptable from msi and TBH the drivers and crossfire support is generally much worse than NVIDIA. e.g. to date no FC4 crossfire profile.
Can`t wait for my next graphics card upgrade!
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