CF 290X high temps after drivers

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jun 2014 at 19:53

I've noticed the temps of my CF290X setup have gone up 25% since the latest Beta driver, using the official driver I never saw 80c in BF4, now at stock the temps are silly in all games that are GPU dependent. How can drivers increase temps? Sniper 3 and BF4 see constant 94c.

thefogo · 28 Jun 2014 at 19:55

Are these reference cards?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jun 2014 at 19:55

No sorry MSI Gaming

shankly1985 · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:01

Am not sure how drivers can increase temps that much. But what is your case like? How much space they apart?

Am using 14.6 but only played csgo so far, my temps always in 70s on both cards.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:03

Case isn't the issue, the temps are near enough the same with all the panels off. The crossfire setup has a PCI gap between each card

oweneades · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:05

Have the latest drivers changed the fan speed or messed around with a custom fan profile you may have set?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:06

Nope using afterburner for a nice custom fan setup, that used to work fine.

oweneades · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:08

What happens if you let the drivers control the fan speed (set to auto (non user controlled) in MSI Afterburner)?

shankly1985 · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:08

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Case isn't the issue, the temps are near enough the same with all the panels off. The crossfire setup has a PCI gap between each card

Thats how I used to have mine and my top card would hit 94c all the time. The reason for this is it was feeding all the hot air from bottom card.
Is your bottom card same? 94c or just the top? Am not sure how a driver change can do this though. Because I have been in same situation.

Here what I had to do.

Am sure people getting sick seeing this now

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:18

oweneades said:
What happens if you let the drivers control the fan speed (set to auto (non user controlled) in MSI Afterburner)?

Just tired it, no difference

shankly1985 said:
Thats how I used to have mine and my top card would hit 94c all the time. The reason for this is it was feeding all the hot air from bottom card.
Is your bottom card same? 94c or just the top? Am not sure how a driver change can do this though. Because I have been in same situation.

Here what I had to do.

Am sure people getting sick seeing this now

I can't do that due to the lay out of my case and motherboard MZXT H440. Bottom card gets up to 87c, not as hot.

uksoldierboy · 28 Jun 2014 at 22:51

Long shot, but maybe the drivers have allowed better scaling, better GPU usage, thus increasing the temps??

Probably a millions miles off but you never know..

Either that or the weather perhaps.

Jono8 · 28 Jun 2014 at 23:28

Did you have vsync set as on for your old driver options? If v sync has now been turned off, gpu usage will go up accounting for the rise in temps.

win8.1 · 28 Jun 2014 at 23:48

14.6 drivers do increase a single Msi gaming's temps by atleast 5-6c.

If the gpu is working harder with these drivers causing the higher temps it's not worth it as the framerate increase is minimal.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Jun 2014 at 13:19

Gone back to original 14.6 Betas, just hope this isn't they way its going to be from here onwards

shankly1985 · 29 Jun 2014 at 13:27

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Gone back to original 14.6 Betas, just hope this isn't they way its going to be from here onwards

Have temps dropped?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Jun 2014 at 13:32

Yeah back down to 88 max now in BF4, no more crossfire in Grid and Sniper anymore though

thefogo · 29 Jun 2014 at 14:03

If the beta drivers give better crossfire support then that's why temps went up.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Jun 2014 at 15:44

Scrap that, just done a hour of BF4 check the temps and their sat at 94 again.

What's making them so hot, never had this before till now.

Edit: WTF just checked fans aren't going round on bottom GPU!! - They start up with boot, which as far as I checked until now, then they stop 30 seconds later.

MOOGLEYS · 29 Jun 2014 at 15:58

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Scrap that, just done a hour of BF4 check the temps and their sat at 94 again.

What's making them so hot, never had this before till now.

Edit: WTF just checked fans aren't going round on bottom GPU!! - They start up with boot, which as far as I checked until now, then they stop 30 seconds later.

I think if it's not in use the second card gets shut off. Fire up a game or something like a benchmark and it should come back to life. I think it's called zero core or something.

shankly1985 · 29 Jun 2014 at 16:08

Yeah as above if you don't have ulps disabled, then bottom card will switch off.
As I said before am surprised that you had temps like that before driver change. The 290's non reference coolers put all the hot air into the case, because your GPUs are so close to each other the top card is getting all the hot air.

You can test, take bottom card out and see what the temperature is like I bet you it will be much cooler.
I had this and iit's reason for mine being so far apart.
This isn't just msi either it's all aftermarket 290s