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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club
- Thread starter Orangey
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I'm back......
New card installed and so far all is working as planned.
Will see what the next 24Hrs brings...
What one did you get?
Caporegime
I'm back......
New card installed and so far all is working as planned.
Will see what the next 24Hrs brings...
You've just gone and jinxed it. If something goes wrong this time you have to accept some of the blame.
Just kidding, Enjoy.
Soldato
Do it. Put a link in your sig though, i get lost once i leave this section.
I did this as soon as it was up and running
How does a single 290 perform at 1440p? Looking for first hand experience, looking to get a ASUS 1440p monitor very soon!
Soldato
I had a thread in general discussion but it seems to have died so rather than bumping it again I thought I would try here. My top msi gaming edition has been hitting temps of 90+ So I'm back down at 1 gpu for the time being however I want to get them both working if I can obviously. Now my motherboard is thisam I likely to find a z77 board with more spacing between the PCI-e slots or is that about my lot?
If you looking at buying new board I can highly recommend Asus p8z77 ws bit pricey though. I had same trouble has you and went with this board to give me the max space between the two cards. Before my top was also hitting 90c now both sit around 70s
What I have done.
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My 290 hits 95c then the fans start to spin up and the gpu throttles. Had to use a custom fan map. Is this common?
Soldato
Yes.
I discussed this with Matt in this thread yesterday, in some details too. Are you using CCC or MSI AB?
It was recommended to use CCC and the Overdrive option to set your target temp & fan speed to 100%. Mine will easily hit 90c but fans speed only ay 60% which is not painful on the ears.
Soldato
Only reference cards, custom cards don't have the target temperature in CCC well msi dont.
Soldato
Yes - I was assuming he was running reference as non reference cards don't bottleneck/throttle as quickly or at all in comparison.
Associate
If you looking at buying new board I can highly recommend Asus p8z77 ws bit pricey though. I had same trouble has you and went with this board to give me the max space between the two cards. Before my top was also hitting 90c now both sit around 70s
What I have done.
What exact model board is that? Looks different to the one p8z77 that's pot of stick on ocuk. I was looking at an asrock extreme4 as apparently it has 6-7cm between the slots where mine has 4.5cm. How does your hard drive do that close to the gpu?
Soldato
It's Asus p8z77 WS don't think ocuk stock it but another well known site do.
It's ssd it stays very cool about 20c my two hard drives are in the back of case.
Associate
Oh yeah so it is an ssd. Yeah that mobo is quite pricey. More than what I was really wanting to spend.
Soldato
Do you have access to the MM?
Associate
Mine has gone mate was collected on Friday...