Is the AMD Radeon R9 290X too hot?

[rolypolyman]

No more so than the 480 was and that was a beast of a card. If the 290X only has 6pin\8pin power then I would think it wont be a problem later with the better cooled cards.

 

[cainer]

The point about 290X running so hot is mainly that even AMD fans are saying "wait for the non-reference coolers to get better cooling", but as none of them are blower designs that just means you have 300W of heat being ejected into the case rather than out the back.

probably the most popular 79** card on this forum is the HIS IceQ with blower design
i'd expect them to fit them on their 290x as well

 

[nitram100]

AMD Heating Evolved

lol

 

[coupe69]

Here's a quick pic of my card and temps while idling

Idling? with fan speeds of 3k? That must be making a right racket?

 

[bru]

So at least we now know why AMD waited for so long to release the R290x


but seriously, I had a reference 470 that run at 800Mhz and yes it was loud (read as excruciatingly loud ) and rather warm (read as 95°C and even a whole afternoon session of WoW with the fan at 20% due to a afterburner glitch running at 105°C) but it was designed to run like that just like the reference 290X.

Too hot....No
Poor reference cooler....Yes

 

[fowler002]

I really can't be bothered to read all the 44 posts up to this point, but was this thread really necessary? We have people posting 'the card is too hot'(or similar) in virtually every single 290x thread and even seems to be in nvidia cards based threads as well, next I'm guessing/predicting a 'is the 290x reference cooler too loud?' thread

 

[sin]

If 290x burns your house down do you get a refund?

 

[MrMarvelous]

So is the 290X basically NVidias 480's?

The temperatures will be killer in the summer, cheeky releasing it in the winter time.

 

[sin]

joking

 

[Gerard]

The temperatures will be killer in the summer, cheeky releasing it in the winter time.

My cards during the summer at peak were really no different to what they were in the winter, maybe 1-2 c more and that was about it.

 

[Silent_Scone]

After an hour of running 1.36v and a fan cap of 55% under full load although the card did throttle toward the end the card didn't feel like it was dispersing air any hotter than what my Titan would. The only indication that the card was hot was ASUS GPUTweak. Too many factors to really get a flat out answer, but at 300w and beyond this card does need a good chassis.

The cards manufacturer states it's perfectly safe so as long as you have the setup to to disperse any ambient heat and don't live iina shoe box it's fine.

 

[Make]

So is the 290X basically NVidias 480's?

The temperatures will be killer in the summer, cheeky releasing it in the winter time.

Considering Britain does not really have that much of a "Winter", nor "Summer", more like Spring/autumn all year, it does not make that much of a difference.

Back home the ambient temps can be from 20 to 35 during different times of the year, over here it's more like, between 18 and 23 at max.. even on the hot days.

Edit: especially with the poor insulation of these houses.

 

[Beasty]

I guess they would not release a card that is 'too hot' but I will certainly be waiting for some 3rd party designs before upgrading (if it is the 290x I choose, on a 6970 now and that's noisy enough!)