R9 290 now under H90 cooling need a solution

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Hi all,

I have just put one of my 29 290's under a h90 and kraken g10 it's great the card has gone from throttling at load (hitting 95) to only going up to 60.

HOWEVER I am currently running the h90, 2 corsair fans (on push pull on the rad) and the Kraken g10 fan all on Molex adapters thus they are running at full speed all the time, which is a little noisy truth be told.

Anyone have any solutions for bringing them under an automated control system? I.e. putting the kraken on a pwn to vga adapter to the card itself and controlling through afterburner?

Or is there a good fan controller I could easily rig to detect heat on the card and then bring the fans up?

or any ideas really?

Thanks,
 
Question added to the above - is it possible to control a fan controller from MSI afterburner? I.e. could i set it so that the controller brought the fan speed up once then temp on the card was up?

I see many controllers have thermal probs but with a h90 on the block i am not sure how i'd get the card themp through to the controller. except through software.
 
Azen said:
Anyone have any solutions for bringing them under an automated control system? I.e. putting the kraken on a pwn to vga adapter to the card itself and controlling through afterburner?
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Gelid do a vga to pwm adaptor which will do what you want.


Or is there a good fan controller I could easily rig to detect heat on the card and then bring the fans up?
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I'd just use Speedfan. That way you can control the speed of the gpu & H90 fans from the current gpu temp.

Here's a couple of guides on how to set Speedfan up :

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/154956-how-to-properly-set-up-speedfan/

http://www.silentpcreview.com/SpeedFan
 
I use an NZXT Grid+. Let's you set a custom fan profile for up to 6 fans (same profile for all fans). I have the 4 fans from my GPU AIOs and the LEDs from my backplates connected.

Keeps them quiet under general usage. I have them start to ramp up at around 40C, but really with the 290s you could set that a fair bit higher.
 
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