MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G 4GB Performance/FPS

Hi everyone,
i bought my new pc. And i just assembled everything.
Main Board: GIGABYTE AM3+ GA-990FXA-UD3 (990FX/ATX)
Bios Version: F2
Video Card: MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G 4GB
PSU: CS Series 80 PLUS Gold CS650M 650W Modular
12v rail Rating of listed PSU: ATX12V v2.4 ed EPS 2.92 (i dont know how to check)
CPU: AMD FX-8320E AM3+ EIGHT-CORE 4.0GHZ 95W 16MB BOX
Memory: DDR3 1600Mhz PC12800 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1.5V CL9 (4x4GB) (X79)
SSD/ HDD: Samsung SSD Serie 840 Evo Basic 250GB SATA III
CPU COOLER: Original one
Raid Card: main board
Sound Card: main board
Any Additional hardware plugged into your system:
OC: (Yes / No) sometimes
Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600)
i can also give you dxdiag if you need it.
i would like to check if i assembled everything fine, and it works as it should do. How can i test this video card?
I played Diablo 3 with a friend of mine and compering his fps with the same video settings my pc has lower fps then his pc. And my pc is much better.
Probably Diablo 3 is not the best game for test everything, but maybe is just a signal that means that something is going wrong
thanks for your answer and attention.

Quote from: flobelix on 07-March-15, 22:45:45
You can inrease gpu clockrate in little steps with >>MSI Afterburner<<. If it gets unstable reduce clockrate by a step until it is stable again. GPU will have better performance as long as it is not bottlenecked by the cpu.
i dont get it..with this u mean that i need to increase gpu or cpu clockrate? how should i set afterburner?

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here it is, attached below
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here it is 1C0_TV308MH.rar (97.14 kB - downloaded 13 times.)
flash guide:
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Decompress the attached .rar archive with Winrar: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
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MOVED: [REQUEST] UEFI GOP BIOS for MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G

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Quote from: flobelix on 25-July-14, 00:47:47
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Quote from: innis2 on 19-January-14, 20:34:43
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I think the fans are actually fine, its definitely looking like a software issue, I didn't see this problem before installing afterburner, and setting a higher min fan speed seems to have cured the issue for now.
I can imagine that a fan thats seizing up might just stop at lower speeds, but I would think it would struggle to start up when touched.
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