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 !!
You do not have other fans on your case to change their flow?
If not then that is why you have the high temps.
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread
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You do not have other fans on your case to change their flow?
If not then that is why you have the high temps.
Right, reversed the rad fan so it intakes air from the rear & also reversed the 200mm bitflex front fan so it becomes an exhaust.
This along with the H100i fans in the roof should mean there is decent airflow.
After 30 mins of Grid Autosport temps maxed out at 68c. This is at stock settings 1018/1250mhz. Fans are plugged into the motherboard & running @ 100%
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What res is that at?
1440p full ultra settings.
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New card installed, same crap as last time with the added "bonus" of it hitching quite a lot during gameplay. If anything this seems to get upto the throttle limit quicker than the last card....On the last card it was core 2 being the main culprit, on this one both cores hit the throttle limit fairly fast, both were at 74c and throttling after about 5 minutes of sniper elite 3. Battlefield 4 much the same thing.
Why can't these cards seem to do what it says on the tin?
2 in a row with this one being somewhat worse..
Looking forward to more downtime and ridiculous postage charges...
Why can't these cards seem to do what it says on the tin?
2 in a row with this one being somewhat worse..Looking forward to more downtime and ridiculous postage charges...
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Another update, the ocuk cs rep seems to think something in my machine could be causing the issue as the last card i sent back in their testing apparently didn't throttle but just cut out any time it was loaded up.
Makes no sense to me at all, I have several pics and few vids of both the old and the new card throttling. Regardless of how its installed it continues to clock itself down, also the game play on this one seems to be very "stuttery", very noticeable pauses in bf4 and crysis 3. The last one didn't have that issue.
Makes no sense to me at all, I have several pics and few vids of both the old and the new card throttling. Regardless of how its installed it continues to clock itself down, also the game play on this one seems to be very "stuttery", very noticeable pauses in bf4 and crysis 3. The last one didn't have that issue.
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Another update, the ocuk cs rep seems to think something in my machine could be causing the issue as the last card i sent back in their testing apparently didn't throttle but just cut out any time it was loaded up.
Makes no sense to me at all, I have several pics and few vids of both the old and the new card throttling. Regardless of how its installed it continues to clock itself down, also the game play on this one seems to be very "stuttery", very noticeable pauses in bf4 and crysis 3. The last one didn't have that issue.
Are the fans spinning up properly?
Yup, everything seems to be working fine, the rad is setup with a 140mm intake in front of it and the rad fan reversed so a push pull config which should shift air through it faster.
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Pretty odd how some people get 60C under load and others are throttling.
When the 7990 came around amd were supposedly binning cores for months that could work at proper clocks with lower voltages. Of course that seemed to be more of a case of reviewers got the binned cores, and a ton of people got cards with cores that ran far too hot for the heatsink to handle.
Dunno if its the case this time around but thats 2 cards in a row with throttling issues, and it seems that ocuk are suggesting the card is not the issue. Think I'll give a call tomorrow and find out exactly what's up as im less than thrilled about having a £700 card that can't even maintain a proper clock speed.
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Yeah I had a 7990. It wasn't terrible but it was pretty hot and loud. I sold it for almost £200 profit 
Yeah I wouldn't accept it mate, if I were you I'd try and get a full refund.
Yeah I wouldn't accept it mate, if I were you I'd try and get a full refund.
Yeah I had a 7990. It wasn't terrible but it was pretty hot and loud. I sold it for almost £200 profit
Yeah I wouldn't accept it mate, if I were you I'd try and get a full refund.
Seems to be going that way, ive always liked dual gpu cards since the voodoo 5 5500 but not if they're not performing as they should.
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If you do send it back then go for a pair of 970's, it's a nice combo 
If you do send it back then go for a pair of 970's, it's a nice combo
I was considering a pair of 980's after the first card got sent back and asked if i could pay the extra and get those but was told:
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Well, running the stock fan as an intake at the rear along with an SP120 in push/pull & the 200mm front fan as an exhaust seems to have leveled out the temps to between 68-72c after a couple of hours gaming. No throttling going on & games are playing well.
However, temps of other components have increased a bit, hard drive temps have gone up over 10c, CPU is up 5-8c.
Not much more I think I can do TBH.
However, temps of other components have increased a bit, hard drive temps have gone up over 10c, CPU is up 5-8c.
Not much more I think I can do TBH.
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Odd why Robzere31's Sapphire card doesnt throttle.
Have you tried to flash another manufacturers BIOS to the card or are all BIOS's the same? You have a BIOS switch so can reverse if needed?
I remember the 7990 used to throttle and LtMatt wrote a non throttle BIOS and increased the TDP limit for the card using some BIOS editor. But it only dropped to 950 from 1000Mhz.
Have you tried using 2 different ports from the PSU to power the 8 pin connectors? No split cables from one output? (ignore, seen your rig picture)
Have you tried to flash another manufacturers BIOS to the card or are all BIOS's the same? You have a BIOS switch so can reverse if needed?
I remember the 7990 used to throttle and LtMatt wrote a non throttle BIOS and increased the TDP limit for the card using some BIOS editor. But it only dropped to 950 from 1000Mhz.
Have you tried using 2 different ports from the PSU to power the 8 pin connectors? No split cables from one output? (ignore, seen your rig picture)
His only seems to be around 2c out of the throttle zone though, they start to throttle at 74c.
There are custom bios files around but like i said on the last page i want it to work as intended out of the box with no messing around. The 7990's were laughable in retail form compared to how they were portrayed in reviews.
I could try bios etc but really its not something i can be bothered doing, after the 7990 im not jumping through hoops anymore for a video card, it either works how its meant to or it goes back.
Buy one Apache if you like silence, or a Piranha if not bothered. Put it on it's own, at 100% speed blowing cold air to the rad.