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Air cooing upgrade?

P4Clock

P4Clock

P4Clock

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P4Clock said:
I am thinking about not water cooling my 290's. if i was not to bother would would be the better air cooler upgrade over the stock blower's fitted.

There is lots of room for coolers so i have not size restriction.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alpe...xx-edition-high-end-vga-cooler-hs-023-al.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alpenfoehn-peter-2-universal-high-end-vga-cooler-hs-045-al.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/prolimatech-mk-26-multi-vga-cooler-hs-023-pl.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/prolimatech-mk-26-multi-vga-cooler-hs-023-pl.html
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U have refer nce 290's in crossfire?

Mine when they had reference coolers on would hit 95c in minutes and throttle plus sound like id left a hoover behind the pc.

Deffo do something reference coolers are useless
 
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Have a think about the Corsair HG10 A1 bracket with AIO water cooler.

I am using one with a Corsair H105 AIO cooler, and the temp of my overclocked 290x average at around 40-45C. You can use the HG10 A1 with other lower price AIO such as the Corsair H55/H75, and the temp would probably around 10C higher than my H105, and 50-55C would still be very good temp. Also the HG10 A1 aluminum bracket itself (sort of server the purpose as the ram and vram heatsink) pair with the fan from the reference blower cooler does a great job at cooling the VRM...something that the huge heatsink air graphic cooler are weak at.
 
Provided you've got room for the backplate (it takes up the PCI slot and a fraction more above the card) then this is excellent and very quiet:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/arctic-accelero-xtreme-iv-vga-cooler-hs-056-ar.html

I'm currently using two of the hybrid versions (the Accelero Hybrid II-120) but used to use an Accelero Xtreme on a 7970 and it was brilliant. Very, very quiet even at 100% fan.

One thing to remember is that the reference cooler ejects hot air out of the case, where any third party cooler will eject it into your case so you might have to look at your case cooling as a result if your CPU & GPU temps creep up over time.
 
passey89 said:
U have refer nce 290's in crossfire?

Mine when they had reference coolers on would hit 95c in minutes and throttle plus sound like id left a hoover behind the pc.

Deffo do something reference coolers are useless
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i have 2 slots space between cards, when i game i set fans to 70% and put my headphones on. bf4 i will see 75c to 80c after an hour on 64 man server.

the second card only went in on saturday.

I think i will have to look at AIO coolers for them. i may still water cool this was just an idea that died fast haha
 
P4Clock said:
i have 2 slots space between cards, when i game i set fans to 70% and put my headphones on. bf4 i will see 75c to 80c after an hour on 64 man server.

the second card only went in on saturday.

I think i will have to look at AIO coolers for them. i may still water cool this was just an idea that died fast haha
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Yeh i had a 3 slot gap between cards on my asus z97 pro games still went stupidly hot.
 
P4Clock said:
TBF i used to see 90c watching blu ray's with the stock fan profile
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That's just how the stock cooler works, isn't it? The fan stays at it's idle setting until the card hits 90C, then it finds the minimum fan speed required to keep your GPU at 94C, dropping clock speed if it needs to to keep within the maximum fan speed you set in CCC. If you'd be happier with the GPU running cooler than that (which I can understand, even if AMD say it's fine at that temp and there have been remarkably few "my 290 died!" threads) then just go into CCC and set a lower desired temperature in Overdrive. Or set up a custom fan curve in Afterburner to run more like a normal GPU fan.
 
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