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Gigabyte R9 380 G1 Gaming 4GB Constantly Throttling [solved]

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TBH i had a very similar experience with my gigabyte 280x - other brands cards worked fine, but the 280x kept dying over and over because gigabyte did something with the VRM's that kept killing them.

IMO, giga tried to do something non-reference there and screwed up, and it killed cards - but these days its been sorted out, so the newer ones have no issues.
 

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I never had any throttling problems, the card just seemed to drop to 2D clocks out of the blue just because it thought I suddenly stopped playing a game. On a benchmarking suite it seemed fine. But if I try any sort of gaming, once I hit a certain FPS marks the card would rubberband clock speeds like crazy. Only turning off all power saving features helped that. NOTE: The Crimson driver was still new and didn't have the option to turn off Powerplay A.K.A power efficiency. The Tonga silicon was rushed and the driver updates to fix the clock speed problems arrived late. Not that it matters now, because that is history. I don't have the card anymore to know how it runs today. It was a great way to start the year (not) when I bought it just before Christmas. I'm still salty over it.

I have never trusted power saving functions since they were first implemented with Nvidia. I disable that crap so gpus run at their best at all times.
 
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TBH i had a very similar experience with my gigabyte 280x - other brands cards worked fine, but the 280x kept dying over and over because gigabyte did something with the VRM's that kept killing them.

IMO, giga tried to do something non-reference there and screwed up, and it killed cards - but these days its been sorted out, so the newer ones have no issues.
Well, I had no idea they gimped they're own G1 line until it was too late, those were supposed to be better than the "Windforce OC" models, but they probably had the same VRM, no way to know now though. I wish Buildzoid came and just did VRM analysis on the 280(X)/380(X) that would make my day.

Actually, Gigabyte's cards for a long time in my country had the lowest prices of all the AIB cards. Makes me think that they definitely have cut corners to price their cards so aggressively. Or people here just don't like the Windforce design as of late. Or they had other problems. (Well I had a Gigabyte GTX 770 die on me recently, wasn't even overclocked manually)

Asus models are almost always the priciest, and their cooling solution is not the best (miners are avoiding the strix cards), though they put quality components, so it's a trade-off. MSI is somewhere in the middle, but their cards recently have upped in price because people here are really in love with the Twin Frozr cooler, myself included (miners too), I would like it to have no red accents though.
 
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Gigabyte isn't really the bestest for GPUs. From my own experience, but also from what I see and read. Really not their core business and it shows. Aorus does a lot better as a sub brand but then again, short history so we will see in time if they corrected this for real with that branding.

Really the reason for picking Gigabyte is price/perf. They are generally better priced than competitors; that has to come from somewhere.
 
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A note on the BIOS files, for as long as I had the card, any files newer files from the website to flash the card with would 100% fail, as in ATI/AMD flash would not recognize the files and refuse to flash the chip. I don't remember which revision the card came with, but it was already flashed to the newest until the next release file came out, which just would not flash.
Your flash fu is weak. :laugh:

Seriously. There's ways to make it work. Namely use atiflash in command line mode with the -f(force flash) command(ATIWinflash is for rookies...not really I still use it when it works because of convenience). Or you can do it the right way. Open up a hex editor and fix what needs fixed with it so it will flash without -f(and/or with ATIWinflash). I just downloaded all the BIOSes from the GB website for the 380 G1 Gaming 4GB w/ Hynix VRAM. The only issues that would cause a problem with atiflash are different subsystem IDs and one has a bad CRC/checksum. All easily fixable with a hex editor and a CRC/checksum calculator tool.
remember I'm an advanced kind of guy, troubleshooting is what I love to do.
He says...o_O
 
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Your flash fu is weak. :laugh:

Seriously. There's ways to make it work. Namely use atiflash in command line mode with the -f(force flash) command(ATIWinflash is for rookies...not really I still use it when it works because of convenience). Or you can do it the right way. Open up a hex editor and fix what needs fixed with it so it will flash without -f(and/or with ATIWinflash). I just downloaded all the BIOSes from the GB website for the 380 G1 Gaming 4GB w/ Hynix VRAM. The only issues that would cause a problem with atiflash are different subsystem IDs and one has a bad CRC/checksum. All easily fixable with a hex editor and a CRC/checksum calculator tool.
He says...o_O
Welp, either my card was bad from the start or they put faulty BIOS files in there.

And I'm in a love/hate relationship when it comes to issues that can't be solved by user alone. And good luck getting any support from Gigabyte, I'm not alone when I say they don't really care tbh.

Can a moderator @Mussels mark this solved or something, cause I sure can't change the title of the thread anymore. I don't think anyone else is going to have these problems, and if they do, a quick google search might lead them here anyway.

I think this thread has run it's course. Thanks guys!
 

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Done, but due to how many of these cards had issues i'm sure others will pop by with their experience and solutions
 

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Haha, Tekken 7 runs smoothly @ 1080p medium, it's pretty impressive when overclocked, I'd consider it GTX 470 level and beyond. Most games now take advantage of the optimizations made by recent architectures, so running those games is pretty much impossible. Open-world games are definitely not an option. Playing Skyrim Special Edition or Fallout 4 on it is a slideshow. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse runs fine too. Most games past 2013 have low framerates, unless you go bottom barrel settings and low resolutions.

It's not so bad, I am replaying a lot of the stuff to pass the time.

I did want to get the GTX 1080, but when I look at it from futureproofing standpoint, it doesn't have full DX12 support (only some features via driver). That's a dealbreaker. Also, no Freesync. Sure, most of what I play is DX11 and DX11 isn't going anywhere, DX12 isn't a replacement, it goes alongside DX11.
Interesting. Reminds me of my childhood days when I played what I could play with that machine, basically just old 2D stuff, old games like Civilization I & II, adventure games like Curse of Monkey Island and the Settlers II. :D
Gigabyte isn't really the bestest for GPUs. From my own experience, but also from what I see and read. Really not their core business and it shows. Aorus does a lot better as a sub brand but then again, short history so we will see in time if they corrected this for real with that branding.
Aorus is just the continuation of G1/Xtreme Gaming branded Gigabyte cards with a different name, so they're basically the same in quality. Depends ofc on the model but the 1080 I have is nice, 980 Ti was pretty much nice as well. I think some of the AMD cards they released simply sucked, but not much else.
Really the reason for picking Gigabyte is price/perf. They are generally better priced than competitors; that has to come from somewhere.
That's true. If I want the best without compromise I look for Asus, MSI or Evga.
 
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Aorus is just the continuation of G1/Xtreme Gaming branded Gigabyte cards with a different name, so they're basically the same in quality. Depends ofc on the model but the 1080 I have is nice, 980 Ti was pretty much nice as well. I think some of the AMD cards they released simply sucked, but not much else.

That's true. If I want the best without compromise I look for Asus, MSI or Evga.

seconding MSI.

I think what it is, they tried to use universal setups for AMD and Nvidia to cut costs - throw the same windforce cooler on every GPU for brand recognition and cost cutting, but the VRMs on the AMDs ran hotter and they couldnt keep up in that area for long term use.
 
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