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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

LtMatt said:
Do it. Put a link in your sig though, i get lost once i leave this section. :p
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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!
 
aceytrixx said:
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 this am I likely to find a z77 board with more spacing between the PCI-e slots or is that about my lot?
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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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Annihilation said:
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?
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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.
 
snips86x said:
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.
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Only reference cards, custom cards don't have the target temperature in CCC well msi dont.
 
shankly1985 said:
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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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?
 
aceytrixx said:
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?
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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.
 
Have a look at the Gigabyte U5HD, I'm in a similar position but I think that has quite a bit of space for you to split both cards up.
 
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