Hold on a minute. I was just packing the card up to return it and I noticed a tiny little switch on the card. There is nothing saying what it is. Does anyone know what it may be?

Google says it controls the fan speed. So I'm not even gonna try to install it again

@insane_metalist: Thank you, I tried it and got the same results though:(. I guess I need to send it back. I hope they don't give me any problems, I'm hoping the exchange it for a new one

@PredatorRules: That's what I was afraid of. I didn't want to accept it though, lol. I got it from New Egg, I hope they give me no problems trying to exchange it

I just recently upgraded from an R9 270x to an R9 290, well tried to anyways. The 290 seems to work fine for about an hour before it crashes my PC. I'm using a 750W PSU. I updated the drivers. I just put the old 270x back in and it's all working fine. Do you think I may have a bad card? What could it be?

@MonsieurX: yes I did. The drivers seem to be the same. I just put the R9's 270x back in. The PC did not notice a change. All games are working fine now, of course on lower settings though. Bad R9 290 maybe?

@MonsieurX: the weird thing was that the PC did not even recognize a new card. I hit "scan for hardware change" in the Device Manager, it did not find any. But, I can play Just Cause 3 at 1080p with graphics all set to high and everything else set to max with no problems. As soon as my son turns on Roblox, or even Skype one time, the screen gets all pixilated and funky looking

Just Cause 3 runs at about 60fps-40fps when all on high.

Yesterday I upgraded from a R9 270x to an R9 290. Also installed a new 750W PSU. Things work fine for about A half hour,. Then the screen it's messed up looking. It gets very pixilated. Not just a game, the desktop included. I should mention that my PC seemed to not know the difference between the two cards, which I found kinda odd. They are both R9's, so I didn't worry to much. I'm wondering if I'm having a heat issue, what do you guys think?

i7 3440 (I think), 8 gigs of RAM, 750W PSU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150731&cm_re=R9_380-_-14-150-731-_-Product

I'm looking to stay under $200 and thought this would be the best card for the money. I currently have an R9 270, i7 3440, 8 gigs of Ram.

Sorry, I'm not sure why I can't link that site

I just got one. It feels like a generic piece of garbage compared to a real GameCube controller, what's up with that? I recently got a WiiU. I was out of town when I bought the "fighting pad". Just the feeling of the thing I knew it was garbage. Lol, plus they call it "wired"!? False advertising, you need to plug it into a Wii Remote, how the hell is that wired? Before I even actually used the thing I bought a Pro Controller. The Pro Controller is nice. I feel like Nintendo thinks we are idiots.