AMD R9 290 Noise levels

smant · 3 Mar 2015 at 14:14

Well, after seeing a Tri-X for a mere £200 on a certain orange themed retailer, I'd decided to give one of those a go, seeing as I need to remove a HD cage either way.

Nelly · 3 Mar 2015 at 14:38

cheesyboy said:
Only the "reference" cooler is super-noisy. The non-reference designs are much better.

This thread woudn't be a thread without this...! lol

win8.1 · 3 Mar 2015 at 15:38

smant said:
Well, after seeing a Tri-X for a mere £200 on a certain orange themed retailer, I'd decided to give one of those a go, seeing as I need to remove a HD cage either way.

Good choice. Be thankful you never went for a 970 with gimped memory. As if it was not dodgy enough selling the fell off the back of a lorry 970's with a gimped bus they had to gimp the memory as well.

Relentless81 · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:37

Geeman1979 said:
As long as you've got sufficient cooling it's all good.

Not particularly true in my experience

Going from a 970 Windforce to a reference 290X dropped my case temps by quite a lot giving me more OC head room for my CPU, this is of course at the expense of noise

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 17:51

Relentless81 said:
Not particularly true in my experience

Going from a 970 Windforce to a reference 290X dropped my case temps by quite a lot giving me more OC head room for my CPU, this is of course at the expense of noise

Of coarse there'll be the odd exception to the rule as there are so many different combo's of hardware.

How much overclocking head room did you gain by making the switch?

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 18:00

Nelly said:
This thread woudn't be a thread without this...! lol

Never gets old

Relentless81 · 3 Mar 2015 at 19:03

Geeman1979 said:
Of coarse there'll be the odd exception to the rule as there are so many different combo's of hardware.

How much overclocking head room did you gain by making the switch?

Yeah I agree it depends on your config as my CPU cooler intakes from the bottom (Above the GPU) and exhausts toward the top of case, after the GPU change I managed to get it from a stable 4.4 (Not a great OC but that was because of the heat preventing me getting it higher and I never realised why at the time) to 4.7 stable, I could squeeze maybe 4.8 if I had the patience

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 19:16

Relentless81 said:
Yeah I agree it depends on your config as my CPU cooler intakes from the bottom (Above the GPU) and exhausts toward the top of case, after the GPU change I managed to get it from a stable 4.4 (Not a great OC but that was because of the heat preventing me getting it higher and I never realised why at the time) to 4.7 stable, I could squeeze maybe 4.8 if I had the patience

I wouldn't have thought a 970 would dump enough heat out to effect a Cpu overclock unless you're running a poor Cpu cooler and a case with bad airflow. I run a Coolermaster Storm case and change out a pair of reference cooled Titans for a pair of custom cooled 290X's regularly and never once as it effected my overclocks on the Cpu.

Relentless81 · 3 Mar 2015 at 20:55

I can assure you it did, the case is a Corsair 540 Air and the Cooler is Be Quiet Dark Rock 2

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 21:08

Unlucky

Relentless81 · 3 Mar 2015 at 21:10

I feel quite the opposite

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 21:11

Running a reference 290 I wouldn't.... the racket they make.

snips86x · 3 Mar 2015 at 21:17

Geeman1979 said:
Running a reference 290 I wouldn't.... the racket they make.

Mine's fine! Bit of a stigma with the reference card which is, I believe, unfounded! Just need the right fan profile!

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 21:18

I've owned one and no way could I get used to that noise, regardless of running fan profiles which I do with any card I run.

Relentless81 · 3 Mar 2015 at 22:12

Not too sure why you're so annoyed about it TBH

I love mine, especially considering the price I paid for it, the case temps were an unexpected bonus and although its noisy that can always be sorted

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 22:17

Relentless81 said:
Not too sure why you're so annoyed about it TBH

I love mine, especially considering the price I paid for it, the case temps were an unexpected bonus and although its noisy that can always be sorted

Apart from the noise?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18657519

I'm not annoyed fella. No idea where you got that from.

LtMatt · 3 Mar 2015 at 22:17

snips86x said:
Mine's fine! Bit of a stigma with the reference card which is, I believe, unfounded! Just need the right fan profile!

Relentless81 said:
Not too sure why you're so annoyed about it TBH

I love mine, especially considering the price I paid for it, the case temps were an unexpected bonus and although its noisy that can always be sorted

I LOVE MY REFERENCE COOLERS!

I even ditched the silence of 295x2 QuadFire just to get that blower back in my life... Ok that might not be strictly true, large amounts of video memory may of played a part too but i really have no problem at all using it. Each to their own and all.

Geeman1979 · 3 Mar 2015 at 22:22

Whatever floats your boat. If you game with headphones on it won't be an issue.

Relentless81 · 4 Mar 2015 at 06:55

Geeman1979 said:
Apart from the noise?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18657519

I'm not annoyed fella. No idea where you got that from.

In my last post in this thread I clearly said its noisy and that if I wanted something can be done about it, I've decided not to bother so its obviously not unbearable to the point where I am changing the cooler

In fact my next card will have a similar cooler as I want it to exhaust outside of the case, hopefully they will be quieter by design

Your posts do have an air of frustration about them