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Finally I have an answer after many many long hours testing and re-testing my 290x with every driver available and 3 different OS w7 installations , card has not been volt moded yet. The problem is related to the video card throttling down during heaven , it does it 1340/1677Mhz stable and pass heaven DX11 extreme on water full cover EK H2O block , but the card starts throttling at test #11 once it gets warmed up the clocks goes up and down as well as the FPS ,performance take a nose dive due to the v.core set at 1.43v real via DMM reading , water cannot handle that much heat , LN2 required for stability. Big Thank You to Crustytheclown for all the help. I guess finally I found a Golden card , I am happy as a dog with 2 tails . next will be full volt mods and LN2 to make it scream. Here is a short video I made of a complete run of heaven at 1340/1677Mhz on ambient temps H2O, I selected and only showed the last 2 test #25 and #26 because heaven last almost 5 minutes to run lol , the fps starts very strong from test 1 all the way until test 10 fps are 186 max , average 182 ,then it takes a big performance hit after test 11 once the card is warm game over . darn it took my 6 cards to find a golden one. watch the short video and the FPS. Check it out to see what I am talking about. id you are having the same problems as I did , there is your answer. http://youtu.be/GQoXT319nvs

+3 , I agree with Allen and Mike , results are very inconsistent all the time. As Allen said HWBPrime is always consistent and an excellent benchmark.

welcome back Tony , nice score !

pcie-16x at 3.0 , so it's good in that aspect. Thank you for trying to help TerraRaptor , I think I will make a very short video of the video card running full heaven at the end , last test test # 26 at those speeds to see if you guys can tell if the card is throttling , underperforming or what is going on

Guys I need some help identifying a performance problem. I am on my 6th video card 290x , out of the first five only one was able to go to 1300 core on LN2 also it did 1290 on cold water weird it clocks almost the same in LN2 and water. I juts received video card number 6 yesterday and I quickly mounted an EK full cover water block. ASIC 76.9 , Elpida Memory , flash PT3 Bios and away I go testing this new one. The card runs at 1345Mhz core 1670Mhz memory on water , just plain water not cold or chilled , at 1.387v in Asus GPU Tweak in DMM 1.43v real. No mods yet. The card scales very well with voltage , and max temperatures while running heaven is 42c core , vrm 1 is 34c and vrm 2 is 36c. Temperatures are great , here comes the but ? but the card does not score properly , it seems to score lower than my other cards on heaven and Fire Strike extreme , my question is what could it be video card has throttle during the benchmark ? Video card needs subzero to score correctly ? Drivers ? I was watching heaven run for hours last night at 180 FPS , average was 174 FPS , it dips in the tessellation test to 165 FPS. But score is abysmal and way off. That was with a 4770K at 4.8Ghz on water , max score I got was 4456 , I had scored 4682 before with another card same cpu clocks and same OS , same drivers , card was at 1290/1581 , so 300 Points difference. I tried lower voltages , lower core clocks ( 1250 ) , lower memory clocks ( 1500 ) and it scored 4384. To end the story short , I am lost why this new card can run so easily at 1345/1670Mhz on water with no mods yet , but it scores very bad. Any idea or hint what could it be ? Any guidance , help , opinion or idea are welcome. * The new card black screen always during any bench but very little maybe 1 or 2 seconds then signal will be back and always finish the benchmark *

5 video cards bundle + 2 FREE games included = SOLD Everything has been SOLD , Mods please close this tread and move it to the SOLD section. Thank you hwbot for the time and space.

And ..... 5 video cards bundle + 2 FREE games included " Pending "

TiNbo goin Zombified 290x , no smoking VRM sounds good

2x 750w PSUs Bundle has been " SOLD " Only thing I have left for sale is : 5 video cards bundle + 2 FREE games included = One Asus HD 6670 1GB DDR5 + One Asus HD 6570 1GB DDR3 + One MSI GT 520 1GB DDR3 + One PNY GeForce 210 1GB DDR2 + One Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 320GB with Thermalright aftermarket cooler never volt moded , untouched , it's still a virgin waiting for some VRs to make it shine , easy for volt mods. + One BF4 PC game + One Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag ( Games alone are worth it $89.98 , use them or sell the games ) All this for Only $100US dollars + shipping. Asus HD6670 1GB DDR5 alone cost is $89.99 US Dolllars http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121442

Free 2 games included 5 video cards bundle now I will include 2 brand new video games PC download , never activated , never used = 1 copy of BF4 and 1 copy of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag , Games alone are worth $89.98US Dollars. https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/battlefield-4-ANW.html http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Creed-IV-Black-Flag-PC/dp/B00BMFIXZG

2x750w PSUs bundle " Pending "

Now that's a name I have not seen for many years , nice to see you back benching NO_NAME , welcome back. Great score dude.

Amazing 3 stage cascade Charles ! Great score and tweaking , you are back taking down Global scores , cheers.

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Nicely done Nacho , congratz in the awesome score.

Use This special Asus Bios PT3 and use the Asus GPU tweak in this download link provided by Shamino : http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2473 , good luck.

2Ghz so close i can see it happening ! Congratz Vincy , well done.

Awsome score congratz dude ! Ouchh ... that V.Core

G.Skill F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM 4x4GB Quad Channel Kit 4x4GB DDR3-2133 Cas 9-11-10-28 1.65v. SOLD

2x Samsung 830 128GB SSDs have been " SOLD " , please no more PM asking for this SSDs , thank you. Everything else is still up for sale , but some items are pending , but still available until payment is in my paypal account

PM send to all 4 people interested on the 2 SSDs.

Nicely Done !

Welcome to my $100US Dollars Sale , everything I sale here , be it by itself , in pairs or bundle , everything has to go for $100US Dollars no more no less , for the Low Price of Only $100US Dollars + shipping you can take home some great hardware. Paypal Non CC is the prefered method of payment. International buyers contact me via PM to see if I ship to your country , I ship almost anywhere in the world , but bare in mind shipping from here the Island of Puerto Rico USA to International destination will be expensive , so please do not waste my time if you are not sure if you want to buy the hardware , serious and honest buyers only , no Low Balls or asking for lower prices. Price is Fixed at $100US dollars. With my rules out of the way let's get started: Up for sale is a pair of (2) Samsung 830 128GB SATA 6Gbits/s for raid0 256GB Goodness , or for use as single drives 128GB. In great conditions , very trusted SSDs all parts made by Samsung , did I mentioned they are really really fast ! I will include for FREE 2 SATA 6Gbits/s cables as a bonus. 2x Samsung 830 128GB SSDs ( One Pair ): Price - $100US Dollars + Shipping Up for sale is a pair of (2) Power Supply Units 750w each unit in great conditions. This bundle of 2 PSUs consist of one PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk2 750w and One Corsair TX 750W V2. Take Home 2 great power supplies in mint condition for only $100US Dollars. Includes 2 Power supply units and 2 power cables. 2x 750w powers supply units and 2x power cables , one PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk2 750w and One Corsair TX 750W V2: Price - $100US Dollars + Shipping Up for sale is a bundle of 5 Video Cards all in perfect working order. One Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 320GB DDR3 with an Upgraded aftermarket cooler from Thermalright , One Asus HD 6670 1GB DDR5 , One Asus HD 6570 1GB DDR3 , One MSI GT 520 1GB DDR3 and One PNY GeForce 210 1GB DDR2. Take Home all 5 video cards for the Low price of only $100US Dollars , excellent little collection of VGAs , the HD6670 can be crossfire with the HD6570 and works perfectly in crossfire. Price - $100US Dollars + Shipping Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 320GB with Thermalright aftermarket cooler: Asus HD 6670 1GB DDR5: Asus HD 6570 1GB DDR3: MSI GT 520 1GB DDR3: PNY GeForce 210 1GB DDR2: Up for sale is a kit of 4x4GB memory kit , G.Skill F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM 4x4GB Quad Channel Kit 4x4GB DDR3-2133 Cas 9-11-10-28 1.65v. great Quad channel memory kit for LGA 2011 or any DDR3 compatible mobo/cpu , very overclockable kit as they are hinyx double sided memory. In Great conditions and tested using memtest for 12 hours no errors. Price - $100US dollars + Shipping Enjoy it the very low prices while the last and thank you for looking. Kind Regards: Angelo

Happy Birthday dude ! Enjoy it the cake.

Nice score Moose , be ready for back up #3 , #4 and #5 from Mike , jajajaja ... you guys keep pushing it ( Like Oliver used to say ) All in the name of fun.