Best way to fix overheating MSI 280X (rev 1.1)

[Nuclear Fusion]

I recently purchased an MSI 280X Gaming Edition. Upon receiving it, I found it ran hot relative to my other identical cards I tested when playing BF4 (around 85C compared to 70C max). However the biggest issue was mining where this card reached about 95C after about 10 seconds and the drivers crashed.

Is there any way of dropping these temperatures to respectable levels? Anyone else been in the same situation and know of any BIOS fixes that worked for you? Any help at all would be much appreciated!

 

[shankly1985]

I recently purchased an MSI 280X Gaming Edition. Upon receiving it, I found it ran hot relative to my other identical cards I tested when playing BF4 (around 85C compared to 70C max). However the biggest issue was mining where this card reached about 95C after about 10 seconds and the drivers crashed.

Is there any way of dropping these temperatures to respectable levels? Anyone else been in the same situation and know of any BIOS fixes that worked for you? Any help at all would be much appreciated!

Only thing that helped mine was to move the bottom card down to bottom pci-e slot.
Now both run max 70c. Aim to keep both cards as far away from each other as possible. The draw back I ended up buying a new motherboard comes today. Pci-e 4x is very bad. So if you have a motherboard already that can do pci-e 8X or 16X on bottom slot go for that.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

This was tested in my Windows machine in my signature where it was the only card in the system (ie swapped out the 290 for the 280X for testing purposes), so it would run even hotter if I tried putting it in my actual mining rig where I was intending to put it

 

[Space Monkey]

Are both fans running? Has yours leaked oil on the fan shroud? Wondering if you have one of the dodgy MSI gamer cards?

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Yeah both fans running, not sure about oil I'll have to check.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Got the card back and here is the GPU-Z screen, does anyone know of any BIOS that could fix this?

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Do you think it could be the thermal paste? I'm thinking of changing it to see if that helps at all.

 

[Neil79]

I'm on bios 015.40.X if using the switch closest to the display ports, which is Legacy Bios

The bios on the hybrid switch, furthest away should be 015.42.x
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/151603/msi-r9280x-3072-131204.html

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

It seems that both BIOSes on my card are the same :/

 

[wazza300]

undervolt it?

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

I can't undervolt on the stock BIOS, I'll try flashing it to an unlocked one and see if that helps but given just how fast it overheats I'm not holding out much hope that -100 mv will solve it entirely.

 

[wazza300]

you could try a repaste if there's no warranty sticker on the cooler screws

mx4 is decent paste for gpu's,other than that only a third party air cooler would lower the temps

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

I have some MX-4 and there are stickers on the screws however MSI said that they are only there to deter people who don't know what they're doing and the warranty isn't actually voided if you change the paste.