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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

I get my new card tomorrow, should be interesting. If it does the same thing I'm demanding a refund, about fed up with cards not performing how they're meant to.
 
AMDMatt said:
Using it already actually. ☺️ Completley forgot I had it installed ��
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One iphone smiley worked and one didn't...uh. :confused:

Gerard said:
I get my new card tomorrow, should be interesting. If it does the same thing I'm demanding a refund, about fed up with cards not performing how they're meant to.
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Good luck mate. What fans are you putting on the rad?
 
AMDMatt said:
Good luck mate. What fans are you putting on the rad?
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The stock fan, I'll try mounting it the way it was originally with it behind the front intake. All mounting the rad above the card installation did was make it heat up faster.

Sick and tired of jumping through hoops to get a card to perform how reviews claim it should, they can stick volt modding up their arse, they can stick piling on fans to the rad up their arse, if it doesn't work out of the box how it should its going back, end of story. You shouldn't have to prat around with cards to get them to work as intended. Yet again another amd card that seems to magically perform differently from review samples, reviewers plonking the card into a test rig with no messing about playing games like tomb raider at 4k sitting nicely at 65c. Me playing games like battlefield 4 at 5760x1080 and core 2 is throttling at 74c.....

Unfortunately for amd cards this seems to be par for the course for the high end as of late, had enough headaches with my 7990 and waiting over a month to get a replacement, at least this time the replacement is much faster.
 
Gerard said:
The stock fan, I'll try mounting it the way it was originally with it behind the front intake. All mounting the rad above the card installation did was make it heat up faster.

Sick and tired of jumping through hoops to get a card to perform how reviews claim it should, they can stick volt modding up their arse, they can stick piling on fans to the rad up their arse, if it doesn't work out of the box how it should its going back, end of story. You shouldn't have to prat around with cards to get them to work as intended. Yet again another amd card that seems to magically perform differently from review samples, reviewers plonking the card into a test rig with no messing about playing games like tomb raider at 4k sitting nicely at 65c. Me playing games like battlefield 4 at 5760x1080 and core 2 is throttling at 74c.....

Unfortunately for amd cards this seems to be par for the course for the high end as of late, had enough headaches with my 7990 and waiting over a month to get a replacement, at least this time the replacement is much faster.
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Hope you have more luck this time Gerard.
 
AMDMatt said:
Would you like a Gentle Typhoon fan or two? Let me know if so. :)
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Mal X said:
get the Phanteks fans they're monster,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-032-CS&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=4

but this corsair is pretty good too, both of these are much better than the Venum Vipers ( too noisy).... but the Phanteks has it for me, pure quality
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No thanks :) I'm not going the route of messing around with it. it either works how it should or it goes back and that's the only option for me.
 
Been messing around with fan configurations tonight.

Ran 30 min loop of Grid autosport benchmark to get temps up

SP120 QE fan as exhaust, 74c
SP120 QE + Noctura NFP12 in push/pull configuration 69c
Corsair H100i AIO fan + stock fan in push/pull configuration 66c (so loud I could hear machine 2 rooms away. :D

Currently running the following.

Stock fan + Noctura NFP12 in push pull configuration 70c (Nosie level ok)

Quite how anyone get 60c gaming temps as the advertising suggests is beyond me !!
On the plus side, games seem to be running smoothy.

As a side note, my CPU temps have rissen 5c on average. Still around 65-68c so not to bothered atm.
 
Robzere31 said:
Been messing around with fan configurations tonight.

Ran 30 min loop of Grid autosport benchmark to get temps up

SP120 QE fan as exhaust, 74c
SP120 QE + Noctura NFP12 in push/pull configuration 69c
Corsair H100i AIO fan + stock fan in push/pull configuration 66c (so loud I could hear machine 2 rooms away. :D

Currently running the following.

Stock fan + Noctura NFP12 in push pull configuration 70c (Nosie level ok)

Quite how anyone get 60c gaming temps as the advertising suggests is beyond me !!
On the plus side, games seem to be running smoothy.

As a side note, my CPU temps have rissen 5c on average. Still around 65-68c so not to bothered atm.
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Just smacks of the 7990 imo, all the review samples ran cool and quiet, yet a retail board doing the same thing was like hens teeth.
 
Robzere31 said:
Been messing around with fan configurations tonight.

Ran 30 min loop of Grid autosport benchmark to get temps up

SP120 QE fan as exhaust, 74c
SP120 QE + Noctura NFP12 in push/pull configuration 69c
Corsair H100i AIO fan + stock fan in push/pull configuration 66c (so loud I could hear machine 2 rooms away. :D

Currently running the following.

Stock fan + Noctura NFP12 in push pull configuration 70c (Nosie level ok)

Quite how anyone get 60c gaming temps as the advertising suggests is beyond me !!
On the plus side, games seem to be running smoothy.

As a side note, my CPU temps have rissen 5c on average. Still around 65-68c so not to bothered atm.
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Try to use the stock fan on it's own, blowing COLD air to the rad. So you put the fan on the external side, not blowing warm air from the case to the rad.

At stock speeds and assuming your room temp isn't 24C+ you will will not see more than 60C.

If you want more cooling performance and still be silent, you need to get something like two Magmas or Apaches, and if you want something more loud Piranhas.

(I put them from silent to loud)

Still the Piranhas are quieter than the 2 SP the H100 comes with by 30db to be precise.

But make sure you BLOW cold air from outside the case to the rad, not from inside the case.

Yes you might need to change the flow on the front fans of the case.
 
Panos said:
Try to use the stock fan on it's own, blowing COLD air to the rad. So you put the fan on the external side, not blowing warm air from the case to the rad.

At stock speeds and assuming your room temp isn't 24C+ you will will not see more than 60C.

But make sure you BLOW cold air from outside the case to the rad, not from inside the case.
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I'll give this a go tonight, but I'm just wondering when all that hot air once inside the case is going to go !! :D
 
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