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R9 280X Overheating

ÜberTakter

ÜberTakter

ÜberTakter

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Hey Overclockers

My Powercolor 280X is great from a price/performance standpoint but crikey... it sounds worse than a GeForce FX5800 and despite the leafblower-style fan it apparently is struggling to stay cool.

It starts out smooth as butter at the beginning of my gaming session but after a couple of hours playing Diablo 3 at 120Hz@2560x1440 (I keep an eye on MSI Afterburner on my second monitor) I can see that after this time GPU usage starts 'spiking' and cratering from 99% to 0% over and over, making my gameplay very choppy. Temps probably reach into the mid 80s at its worst.

Does anyone else have this problem or have some tips to solve it? I don't really want to get rid of this card because of the price/performance ratio but the noise and heat are putting a downer on the whole thing. Especially when 120Hz gaming is so awesome + smooth.
 
The card is designed to run hot so that isn't the problem.

The problem is the awful cooler AMD have put on it. I'm afraid its either put up with the noise, wait for an after market cooler to put on it or try something else.
 
http://www.digitalversus.com/graphics-card/amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-p17328/test.html This review explains pretty much to a T what my card is doing, especially that spiking/cratering GPU load.

However, the GPU temperature never exceeded 83°C (the default safety threshold is at 95°C) and the fan kept running at 30% of its maximum speed.

The dropping clock could be caused by a problem with the power stage overheating when used in warm environments (i.e. in our test PC tower case). AMD reckons that it's caused by a voltage management bug in our specific MSI test card. Apparently a solution is in the pipeline and will be delivered via a firmware update for the card. But to what extent are other R9 280X 3 GB cards affected? We managed to test another R9 280X 3 GB made by a different brand and we didn't find the same problem. It therefore seems to be specific to MSI cards rather than being a fault with the GPU chip itself.
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It's not just MSI, it's Powercolor too...
 
I flashed the BIOS on 2 MSI R9 280X cards and it helped with heat / stability issue's I was having. My 2nd card now doesn't go above 70c now was close to 80's before I flashed .
 
Have you tried setting a manual fan profile? Could just be the default fan profile is slack. Normally seems to be the case with AMD cards. My Ice-Q is the same.

Also do you have the power limit at +50%? Sounds like the card might be throttling.
 
That cooler looks like the one on my 7950 PCS+

Which even at 100% fan speed, is more quiet than the 2 corsairs on the H100 while idle.

And when I had 2 7950s (up to Monday) still they were silent compared to the Corsair ones.

Just set your customer profile and dont let it stuck at 30% only
 
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