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R9 290X Owners Thread

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The Titan's fan profile is also extremely timid, just by adjusting the profile to avoid throttling at 80C the card becomes blatantly more audible. So in a quirky fairly small kind of way it's quite deceiving. The build quality is far better though, that is undeniable. Not £400 better mind you :D.

Fair points i think Frosty.
 
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The Titan cooler is far superior to normal reference coolers. At 85% (max) speed, it gives a whoosh and not a high pitched whine compared to the 680 cooler I had (which also wasn't bad). Temps got a little high on the Titan but for a big chip, they could easily be kept under 70c with the Titan cooler at 85% and this was with ambients of 30c.
 
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The Titan cooler is far superior to normal reference coolers. At 85% (max) speed, it gives a whoosh and not a high pitched whine compared to the 680 cooler I had (which also wasn't bad). Temps got a little high on the Titan but for a big chip, they could easily be kept under 70c with the Titan cooler at 85% and this was with ambients of 30c.

Yeah it's definitely the best reference cooler out there. Although 85% is arguably fricking loud Greg! lol. Not R290X loud but still too loud. Although again, subjective! My rig is on my desk to my left so it's a lot louder than it would be if it were under the desk :).
 
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Yeah it's definitely the best reference cooler out there. Although 85% is arguably fricking loud Greg! lol. Not R290X loud but still too loud. Although again, subjective! My rig is on my desk to my left so it's a lot louder than it would be if it were under the desk :).

Yer it is and the only time I had it like that was benching :D I did set a 1:1 fan profile to stop it throttling (which was needed) and it never hit those 85% speeds and never heard it in honesty.

Bah, what do I care!!! Water cooling for the win and then just the noise of the pump and 8 fans to deal with :D
 
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The Titan's fan profile is also extremely timid, just by adjusting the profile to avoid throttling at 80C the card becomes blatantly more audible. So in a quirky fairly small kind of way it's quite deceiving. The build quality is far better though, that is undeniable. Not £400 better mind you :D.

GTX780 uses the Titan design as reference cooler though, so it's not a £400 difference at all. You can get a reference design 780GTX for £400-410 which is ~£40 cheaper than 290X with it's poorly designed cooler.
 
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The Titan's fan profile is also extremely timid, just by adjusting the profile to avoid throttling at 80C the card becomes blatantly more audible. So in a quirky fairly small kind of way it's quite deceiving. The build quality is far better though, that is undeniable. Not £400 better mind you :D.





Sorry didn't see this. As above really...

When the stock fan profile is set and the target temperature is left at 80C, a single Titan will have no problem being completely silent even in GPU heavy games like Battlefield 4 (beta at least). However if you monitor the GPU clocks they throttle fairly heavily off boost in order to do this. Arguably as long as the performance is still acceptable this isn't an issue, but still worth pointing out. To maintain boost you can either raise the target temp between 85-90C which assists in throttling or create a custom fan profile to keep the temps lower. If you're in SLi though this in my experience on the reference cooler proves futile as there is simply too much heat for the cards to disperse. So it's better to simply stick with the stock profile, have it be silent and let it throttle when it needs to.

So basically it's not all rosy having Titan e-peen.

Thanks for the info mate.
 
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I have got 2 x 290x CF in my computer today, I was trying out Crysis 3, doesn't seem as smooth as the titans/780s that I have used recently, it's almost like the minimum framerate is low, has anyone else got this problem?

The cards are:

Powercolor R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 OC BF4 Edition


Specifications
Graphics Engine - R9 290X Video Memory - 4GB GDDR5
Stream Processor - 2816 Units
Engine Clock - 1030MHz
Memory Clock - 1250MHz (5.0Gbps)
Memory Interface - 512bit
Bus Standard - PCI-E 3.0
Display Connectors - DL DVI-D / DL DVI-D / HDM I/ DP
Form Factor - ATX
Cooler - 2 slot fan sink
Power Connector - One 6-pin + One 8-pin PCI Express Connector
Crossfire Support - Yes
OpenGL - 4.3
DirectX Support - 11.2
Minimum System Power Requirement (W) - 750W
 
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I will add one caveat..and that is my PC has great airflow and OCUK really setup that up very well...but still.

Just my 2pence worth.

I think that is the main thing with these cards, they need a good case with good airflow. A case with only 1 or 2 intake fans doesn't really cut it as far as I can tell.

On another note, has anyone actually got their BF4 code yet? I have redeemed it via the AMD site but the message (and email) said that the code as unavailable and the download was coming soon.
 
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I am not sure if they are throttling or not but when looking in Afterburner it seems only 1 card is being utilized even though crossfire is enabled in the control panel, I assumed there wasn't a crossfire bridge?

As I haven't had an ATI card for ages I am not sure what I am doing wrong,

I think the card comes in Uber mode by default? Is it bios switch to the left?

thanks for the help
 
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I am not sure if they are throttling or not but when looking in Afterburner it seems only 1 card is being utilized even though crossfire is enabled in the control panel, I assumed there wasn't a crossfire bridge?

As I haven't had an ATI card for ages I am not sure what I am doing wrong,

I think the card comes in Uber mode by default? Is it bios switch to the left?

thanks for the help

The card comes in quiet mode from reading around so flip the bios switch then reboot for uber mode.
 
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