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MSI 290/290X Gaming Edition Thread

I'm blown away with the silence of mine, at first I was hmmmmm, put my finger on the gpu fans and slowed them to a stop, and there wasn't a huge difference, turns out the majority of the noise was from my cpu cooler fan................... which makes me think my reference msi with a custom profile wouldn't have been so bad after all lol
 
whyscotty said:
MSI Radeon R9-290X Gaming OC review
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these cards can be easily obtained now and i'm shocked there is still only one review on the WWW :eek::confused:

Not too keen on some of Hilberts review methods!

Ties in with what i've found so far temp wise though absolute tops at 72*c with less than 50% fan.

Love the spacing on the backplate of the card to stop heatsoak, and every memory chip is covered in a thermal pad unlike the Asus DCII.

Best 290 aftermarket by a mile.
 
ps. i've switched my bios selector towards the back of the case and the card is now running with a slower spinning fan with no performance hit thus far (frames are super high in everything) thought the bios switch didnt do much on these.

The card in the box says legacy or UEFI bios switch.
 
toprock said:
ps. i've switched my bios selector towards the back of the case and the card is now running with a slower spinning fan with no performance hit thus far (frames are super high in everything) thought the bios switch didnt do much on these.

The card in the box says legacy or UEFI bios switch.
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Interesting keep testing dude. Could this be the fix?
 
Looking at the MSI product page it seems to have 3 modes?

1007MHz Core(OC mode)
977MHz Core(Gaming mode)
947MHz Core(Silent mode)
 
Total fail moment last night. Playing assassin's creed 3 thinking "excellent holding a steady 60. Strange though 2nd card isn't being used." forgot to re enable crossfire in all games. Doh!

Quiet cards so far though.
 
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aceytrixx said:
Total fail moment last night. Playing assassin's creed 3 thinking "excellent holding a steady 60. Strange though 2nd card isn't being used." forgot to re enable crossfire in all games. Doh!

Quiet cards so far though.
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How are you getting on with these cards in crossfire? Are the temps reasonable? and do you have the 290's or the 290x's?

Cheers.
 
290's. So far I've had very little gaming time and as you can see the little time I did have I only had 1 running however it was only about 60°. I do also have 2 side fans blowing air right onto them. I won't really know how they fair until the weekend when I can get a good few hours in.
 
Will do. Going to be trying out a few things looking forward to finally trying Crysis 3 for the first time and at 1440p. See how these cards handle that.
 
For this Twin Frozr design I was told that positive pressure onto the card was better, was just curious what kind of case fan setup you guys have for this card and what temps you are getting?
 
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