Glad to hear it mate, lovely card is the 295x2.
Just imagine the temps and overclock headroom if this cooler was cooling just a single core with the same memory bandwidth as the 295x2!
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread
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Glad to hear it mate, lovely card is the 295x2.
Just imagine the temps and overclock headroom if this cooler was cooling just a single core with the same memory bandwidth as the 295x2!
Improved temps slightly for me Tom.
Word of caution. If you intend for the 295x2 to control the fan speeds, you can only fit one 120MM Noctua Industrial PPC fan.
If you wish to use two fans you'll need a fan controller.
Looks awesome
I'll only be looking to install one. Cheers.
I have one here but it's 4-pin
Looks awesome
I'll only be looking to install one. Cheers.
I have one here but it's 4-pin
Should be fine with one.
If your system can take it I'd recommend having it as intake, seems to help a lot i found.
Unless you have a H100i or similar in your case as top exhaust, might not be advisable then. You'll need a way to exhaust that heat, if that's not possible don't bother.
Yeah I have a h105 in the roof with noctua 2000rpms
If you have your cpu temps well under control then do it.
Heat rises after all.
If you look at my setup above, i had the bottom 295x2 as intake with the bottom two fans/psu sucking out the heat from the core/vrm of the bottom 295x2.
The top 295x2 was exhausting out and sucking out the heat of the vrm as well as the core. If i had the top 295x2 as intake eventually the vrms on the top 295x2 would over heat and the card would throttle down to 300/150 during intensive gaming. (99% gpu usage)
Trial and error, but always a good learning curve.
No, but you'll know if it throttles.
You'll never have to worry about this unless you go QuadFire.
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They're meaty fans.
I've found with my fan controller that, on start up, I have to turn the channel full on to get the Noctua to kick in and the revs to show.
Great performance though. The 295x2 hasn't throttled once during a gaming session. With the fan on full Crysis 3 peaks at 50.
Then again, the monitoring software could be out. Either way I'm happy, this card is just the ticket for gaming at 1440p.
Is this a hint at the 390x
As for all the temps above that's very good.
Mine is hitting 70c on the 2nd core in BF4 at 1440p.