**AMD Radeon 390X Graphics Card WCE**

[humbug]

After a 10 minute gaming run. I can only guess that other sites are taking results early. That is why I don't have a Titan X already installed.

I am currently running a HIS 290 IceQ X² OC which reaches 72C @ 55% fan. It was hitting 76C prior to some new paste(Noctua NT-H1). By comparison I had a MSI 970 OC Gaming which was hitting 71C.

Good cooling solutions make a huge difference.

Ok 102c. thats a new record

 

[new boy]

How can the ram possibly be that hot? Every other card ever made the ram temps are a non issue?

 

[TNA]

People crucified AMD for a hot noisy 290 but it seems it's ok coz its a near ok £1000 Nvidia card...

lol. True!

All the people who said 290x is hot would happily own the TX and even worse pay close to one grand for it... lol.

Let's say for arguments sake AMD release the 390x and it is faster than the TX and cooler AND cheaper, you know what those same people will say? Yeah but AMD drivers are rubbish... lol. Too funny

 

[chroniclard]

AMD drivers are pretty rubbish?

 

[new boy]

AMD drivers are pretty rubbish?

Pretty hard to deny they havnt been amazing of late. Its been fine for most, but the xfire / freesync / 144hz users have had problems.

 

[Mal X]

help needed on CPU thread....thanks

 

[SiDeards73]

Problem is now Nvidia are likely to release the 980ti and it's probably going to come out before the 390x offer similar performance to the TitanX with less vram and those of us holding out for the 390x are likely to just go buy that instead.

 

[eddyr]

How can the ram possibly be that hot? Every other card ever made the ram temps are a non issue?

Those 12 ram chips are on the back of the PCB as part of the 24 chips X 512MB = 12GB. They don't get a backplate with airflow as do the chips the other side.

 

[TNA]

AMD drivers are pretty rubbish?

Apart from lately taking a little longer to release drivers, on single gpu cards they are fine. Every game I fire up works. Do not get confused with multi gpu users problems, that is a different story and represents a small percentage of user anyhow (though likely most vocal. lol).