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** AMD R290X NOW AVAILABLE & OVERCLOCKING REVIEW!! **

TAZOO7 said:
Nothing new there then, i dont even bother watching his so called reviews these days, user reviews are the most important ones



Thanks, thats useful to know, cos i have had to redo a few Asus and Palit cards due to poor contact or application of the paste rather than sent it back to the retailer, just wondering as the ASUS cards dont have warranty void stickers on then :)



Sorry if i was not clear, but i was referring to the removal of the heat sink in order to use some better paste? but did not know that a bios flash voided warranty either so nice to know also ;)

Im new here so im assuming you work for OCuK?
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Removing heatsink is fine as long as you don't damage the card, won't void warranty.

BIOS flashing is at your own risk.
 
**UNDER-VOLTING**

Guys it seems the current drivers / BIOS have protection built in so the card won't allow you to under-volt it by any usable amount unfortunately.

Anything below 1225mv seems to trigger protection meaning it won't load to windows desktop until you do a full power off and on.

However going from 1250mv down to 1225mv has reduced temperature by 5c under-load with no ill-effect on stability at stock speeds with the card still set at +50 power with 1000Mhz core speed always.


If this protection gets removed by later drivers/BIOS the card in theory should be able to run fine around 1150-1200mv which should be good for a good 10c+ reduction in temps over stock. Seems you can get them to run pretty cool.

Infact its turning out to be quite a fun card for the tweaker/overclocker. :)
 
wolvers said:
Sounds like it should OC well on stock volts.

What sort of OCs have you got up to with the voltage tweak cards?
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1250MHz seems the peak for the core.
6800MHz for the RAM.

On absolute best.

Most seem to do 1175-1200 and 6400 happily, need a good card to get the extreme levels.
 
The blurred out card is the new card coming Tuesday 5am from AMD. ;)

A card which I've now managed scores even beating the R290X OC with, due to newer drivers. :D
 
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