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Asus r9 290 Overclocking
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Soldato
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If you are using stock cooler, I'd recommend you use these following settings (including fanspeed profile):
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25380555&postcount=21
I didn't mention in the post, but I was using +50% Powerlimit.
If gonna use higher voltage and higher overclock, you'd have to increase the fanspeed as well...but frankly I would recommend it and the noise would become too much.
If you get blackscreen problem, you might need to reduce the overclock on the memory. Also I STRONGLY suggest that you disable the "Apply overclocking at system startup" on the MSI Afterburner. I had issue with it apply the overclocking as soon as MSI Afterburner start, and the screen get few seconds of display anomaly and then black screen crash right after, which I had to force reboot. I had to force reboot the PC a few times before I got lucky to open MSI AB in time and hit reset on it (restore back to stock settings) during the display anomly and it instance stopped it and didn't go blackscreen.
I would suggest to just overclock the core clock to begin with...if it's stable, then you can try 1500MHz on the memory clock. If you get blackscreen crash, then keep testing and lowering the memory clock till it doesn't. Worst case scenerio, just use the memory clock on stock clock...it wouldn't be that much worse in performance, and much better than getting blackscreen crashes randomly.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25380555&postcount=21
I didn't mention in the post, but I was using +50% Powerlimit.
If gonna use higher voltage and higher overclock, you'd have to increase the fanspeed as well...but frankly I would recommend it and the noise would become too much.
If you get blackscreen problem, you might need to reduce the overclock on the memory. Also I STRONGLY suggest that you disable the "Apply overclocking at system startup" on the MSI Afterburner. I had issue with it apply the overclocking as soon as MSI Afterburner start, and the screen get few seconds of display anomaly and then black screen crash right after, which I had to force reboot. I had to force reboot the PC a few times before I got lucky to open MSI AB in time and hit reset on it (restore back to stock settings) during the display anomly and it instance stopped it and didn't go blackscreen.
I would suggest to just overclock the core clock to begin with...if it's stable, then you can try 1500MHz on the memory clock. If you get blackscreen crash, then keep testing and lowering the memory clock till it doesn't. Worst case scenerio, just use the memory clock on stock clock...it wouldn't be that much worse in performance, and much better than getting blackscreen crashes randomly.
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Tried 1100/1500 with 1281Mv and 150% power target, did some benchmarks seemed to be stable. Broke the 10k barrier on firestrike.
Edit: havn't tested it on any games yet but ill give feedback on how it performs, how much voltage do you reckon i will need to get around 1200 on my core clock? and how much voltage should i go up to in order to stay within safe limits? you reckon i can achieve 1200 core 1600/1700 mem?
Edit: havn't tested it on any games yet but ill give feedback on how it performs, how much voltage do you reckon i will need to get around 1200 on my core clock? and how much voltage should i go up to in order to stay within safe limits? you reckon i can achieve 1200 core 1600/1700 mem?
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IMO for 24/7 use, it'd be best not go above +100mV (1.350mV), which your max overclock on the core may only hit 1150-1180MHz without artifacting; for 1200MHz, for my own card I need to use Asus GPU tweak to bring the voltage even higher up to +1412mV. I wouldn't recommend this setting for everyday use on stock cooler, but if you were only doing quick benches and using 100% fanspeed it would be fine (I recall it didn't go above 80C when I did that on the stock cooler).
sometime this week ill probably whack my core up to 1350Mv and see what core/mem clocks i can get to stable and monitor the temps. if its reasonable ill keep it if not ill just revert back to 1100/1500. How many volts do you use for your overclock?
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Think I was using +60mV. At the moment I'm just running the card on stock clock, as I am current only playing Bulletstorm, and even with the card at stock, I'm getting solid 120fps on 1920 res 8xAA for my 120Hz monitor.
Also, I have now installed the Gelid Icy Vision Rev2 cooler. It manage to keep the max GPU temp at just 75-76C on 1200MHz and 1.412mv, but the vrm temp is hitting 127C lol I've gotten a bigger heatsink for the vrm haven't installed yet...will see if it helps reduce the temp.
To be honest, despite the high GPU temp, the stock cooler is excellent at keeping the vrm temp low, due to the nature the air-intake of the cooler sit right next to the vrm, and the huge amount of cool-air being push pass the vrm in the confined space (for 3rd party cooler the vrm is cooled by "2nd hand air", as the cool-air will be pushed through the main heatsink to push out the "heat", so by the time the air reach the vrm they are no longer "cool air")
