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

thefogo · 28 Jun 2014 at 16:16

LtMatt said:
That's what he said.

aceytrixx · 29 Jun 2014 at 20:25

LtMatt said:
One of the problems you have is those fans you have littered throughout your pc. I had the exact same ones. They're useless. I can blow my nose and generate more forceful airflow than those things. Put a filter in front of them and they are completely. useless.

Say I swapped out all my fans for 5 noctua 140mm along with adding in the refurb h100 I've ordered I'm still going to need to space the cards out more?

Also what about replacing thermal paste on the cards?

LtMatt · 29 Jun 2014 at 20:35

aceytrixx said:
Say I swapped out all my fans for 5 noctua 140mm along with adding in the refurb h100 I've ordered I'm still going to need to space the cards out more?

Also what about replacing thermal paste on the cards?

I'd definitely recommend those new Noctua industrial fans. Thinking about kitting my rig out with a load of those. The static pressure is the highest ive seen without ridiculous noise levels.

Changing the paste is always worth a shot too imo.

At the end of the day though, you may still need to space the cards out. Can't say for sure either way really.

aceytrixx · 29 Jun 2014 at 21:02

Hadn't checked out the 3000rpm industrial fans. Each one moves three times as much air as mine! That has to be worth a shot. With going from 3 120mm fans to 2 140mm I'd double my airflow from the front. Then another 140 for the rear and a couple 120s for the h100. Even going this and the motherboard will be cheaper than a water loop and less hassle than that or the aio gpu coolers.

GoogalyMoogaly · 29 Jun 2014 at 21:06

aceytrixx said:
Hadn't checked out the 3000rpm industrial fans. Each one moves three times as much air as mine! That has to be worth a shot. With going from 3 120mm fans to 2 140mm I'd double my airflow from the front. Then another 140 for the rear and a couple 120s for the h100. Even going this and the motherboard will be cheaper than a water loop and less hassle than that or the aio gpu coolers.

3000rpm fans will be loud!

Which ones did you get LtMatt and what are you using them for?
Now that you can't get Gentle Typhoons it's always handy to know of some good static pressure fans.

aceytrixx · 29 Jun 2014 at 21:10

GoogalyMoogaly said:
3000rpm fans will be loud!

Which ones did you get LtMatt and what are you using them for?
Now that you can't get Gentle Typhoons it's always handy to know of some good static pressure fans.

Haha yeah just noticed they would be twice as loud as my current ones....

Gerard · 29 Jun 2014 at 21:13

3k rpm fans would be like going back to the old amd thunderbird days with a delta fan screaming at the top of the heatsink. Damn thing used to remind me of a Dentists drill

Orangey · 29 Jun 2014 at 21:30

No more GTs??? My build is obsolete? D:

Those Noctuas do claim to have twice the CFM at the same dBA. True?

aceytrixx · 29 Jun 2014 at 22:38

So an iphone app tells me that my pc is at 50db and ideally I wouldn't want it to go much louder. There does seem to be a few alternatives to the noctuas to help get these temps down without breaking the bank.

Azrael1 · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:33

Hi, this is one for the crossfire experts among you.

My main board has 3 PCIE slots 1 runs at X16 and 2nd one runs at X8 and the third one runs at X4. If I put a card in the the X16 and a card in the X4 it will lower the speed to X8 and X4. How much performance impact would I get running 2 R290 in them both? I have looked it up and some say a lot and some say not much.

Orangey · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:43

Seeing as you have a 3770K you have PCIE3, even X4 will not harm your FPS.

I can't find the data right now but someone has the link around here.

edit: found it: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridge_PCI-Express_Scaling/15.html

snips86x · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:50

Been running with modified volts over the last few weeks and I must say, the results are quite impressive. With -100AUX and -31 on the Core Voltage, streaming the Tennis is sitting around 68c. Before applying this profile it was 85-89c which is quite high.

Very impressed indeed.

Orangey · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:53

Undervolting definitely is a big deal with these cards.

Nexus18 · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:08

Any recommendations on what I should undervolt my MSI R9 290 too?

Just running everything stock atm, rest of pc is evga G2 supernova 750w psu, i5 750 oc to 3.8GHz (goes to 4 with turbo) and RAM @1520MHz

Azrael1 · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:14

Orangey said:
Seeing as you have a 3770K you have PCIE3, even X4 will not harm your FPS.

I can't find the data right now but someone has the link around here.

edit: found it: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridge_PCI-Express_Scaling/15.html

Thank ever so much Orangey you are a star ! It looks like I will be going Crossfire 290 after all and thankfully there is more space now. I even looked at PCI X16 Riser.

LtMatt · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:29

snips86x said:
Been running with modified volts over the last few weeks and I must say, the results are quite impressive. With -100AUX and -31 on the Core Voltage, streaming the Tennis is sitting around 68c. Before applying this profile it was 85-89c which is quite high.

Very impressed indeed.

Good man on listening to the LT. With the reference cooler undervolting is king. It makes such a big difference to the noise and temps. I've got my cards down to -0.050v and -0.100v AUX at the moment at stock clocks.

Mei · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:33

matt who is the one on the left in that gif

oops forgot to say something about 290's
hm humbug them powercolor's look nice 269.99 with gold ticket! thats messed up

Azrael1 · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:39

The FONZ !!! older ofc !

Mei · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:41

its the same guy?

Azrael1 · 30 Jun 2014 at 16:44

Yep - I think its a generational thing - I grew up with him in happy days and then he was in films like scream