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MSI 280x gaming heat?

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I'm finding that this card, although is great, dumps loads of heat into the case I have. What's a good card (thinking of a 290) that is quiet enough but exhausts heat out the back of the case? Is it reference cards only that dump heat out the back?

I actually have my h100 pumping air out the top of my 600t case and when I'm gaming the dumped heat from the 280x in the case, gets sucked into the rad and the temps just go up and up. I know I should really turn the fans around to suck in air form the top but I'll still have the 280x dumping heat in the case.

I have bitfenix spectre 200mm as front intake and bitfenix spectre 120mm fan exhausting out the rear. I take it the best way to deal with this heat buildup is to reverse the h100 intake fans and have them sucking IN from the top of the case?

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Will the intake of air from the top help force more heat out the back of the case with the different air pressure?

If not then what's a good rear exhausting card I can use?
 
You never actually say what the temperatures are... 1 280X can't be increasing temperatures that much. Take your CPU down to 4.5GHz maybe if temperatures are too high.
 
At idle, the temps are in the low 40s and under load (cpu load) the temps are in the 60s but when playing BF4 and the gpu is under full load the case/cpu temps (probably due to the heat being sucked into the rad from the dumped GPU heat) start to get into the mid 70s and upwards. The ROG motherboard has monitors that flash up temps warnings and I always get the warning about temps. I have to take the side door off my case to allow the insides to vent and cool down. That's not ideal having to stop gaming jut to take the side of the case.

It's not the CPU that is the issue, but the heat from the GPU causing the cpu to heat up. I'm thinking I should reverse the rad fans to see if that makes any difference before buying a new graphics card.
 
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Keep the fans on the radiator as exhaust but maybe increase the fan speeds. Maybe increase the 200mm intake fan speed too.
 
Fanatic said:
You never actually say what the temperatures are... 1 280X can't be increasing temperatures that much. Take your CPU down to 4.5GHz maybe if temperatures are too high.
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+1

Even 4.5ghz is overkill for a 280X

I am using quadfired 290Xs on X79 with a 4930k @4.0ghz at the moment and don't have any problems running games with the CPU clockspeed above.
 
That's a big overclock on a big CPU for that little all-in-one cooler.

Best thing is to drop it down to stock and what the temperature jumps up to then, that'll give you an idea on much extra heat the overclock is putting through the cooler.

You might already be close to the thermal limit of the cooler and the heat dump from the 280x might just be enough to tip over it's comfort zone.
 
As other already suggest...drop your CPU overclocked down to 4.50GHz along with the vcore.

Your issue isn't really (mainly) caused by the graphic card, but the CPU itself at 4.70GHz runs really really hot.
 
I was running a MSI 280X OC with a i5 2500K @ 4.7GHZ and just an A50 cooler, no problems whatsoever with temps
 
Neil79 said:
I was running a MSI 280X OC with a i5 2500K @ 4.7GHZ and just an A50 cooler, no problems whatsoever with temps
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As mention above the heat is because of the CPU and overclock that OP uses rather than the 280x.

His overclocked 3930k 6 cores 12 threads CPU would be much hotter than the overclocked i5 2500K 4 cores.
 
Ive found that my gpu's when running games without an fps limit, do add a fair bit of heat which ups temps on what is an already very hot cpu.
 
Ok clocked the cpu back to 4.2. Will try BF4 after seeing the Liverpool Bournemouth game. Might, if I can be bothered, reverse the fans to suck air IN through the top and into the rad, see if that does anything for the temps as well.

4.7 was just epeen swinging :p
 
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