Installing an Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV to Sapphire 290

[Smudge]

get that bad boy warmed up & report back!

 

[Beerbaron]

I'm getting there....slowly Just wanted to run the PC for a few minutes first to make sure it wasn't going to get hot whilst idle.

I will test it shortly with Tomb Raider and probably BF4 later tonight.

 

[Smudge]

You could also run a quick few rounds of heaven, that should get it toasty.

I checked my 290 at stock and have pretty much exactly the same idle temps with the ref cooler (your vrm2 is 8c higher than mine, could be case airflow or anything though).

 

[LtMatt]

Naw i was hoping for Furmark, 1.4v on low fan speed.

A run of Unigine with 100% fan speed, at stock clocks and voltages should give us a good indication.

 

[Smudge]

cgminer! that should cripple it

 

[Beerbaron]

10 minutes of Tomb Raider. Whats regarded as good VRM temps?

 

[gpuerrilla]

*grabs virtual popcorn*

 

[Beerbaron]

I checked my 290 at stock and have pretty much exactly the same idle temps with the ref cooler (your vrm2 is 8c higher than mine, could be case airflow or anything though).

My case has the side panel off. Corsair Obsidian 650d using stock front and top fans.

 

[thefogo]

Those VRM temps are decent enough. Kinda bizarre that it ships with no heatsinks for them, though. I imagine they would be setting on fire without them...

 

[tommybhoy]

Without wanting to sound like Rusty on poppers, show us your load. (temps)

Lol.

+1,

My temps after a couple of hours of BF4 using custom fan profile(still quieter than Matts missus during shugah daddy time):

Matt new sig shocker... deserves it's own thread.

 

[LtMatt]

My fan profile for 290 Pro crossfire, should anyone be interested. 5% overclock on the core. Temps range from 80-90c depending on the game played and if vsync is used. In game card temps are identical thanks to my case airflow.

 

[Beerbaron]

46'C @20% fan speed is awesome compared to how loud and hot the previous cooler ran.

 

[LtMatt]

46'C @20% fan speed is awesome compared to how loud and hot the previous cooler ran.

Nice. Is that after a run of Unigine?

 

[gpuerrilla]

Love his new sig - like RED rag to a bull

 

[Beerbaron]

My max temp and fan speed were setup for my other cooler. I haven made some changes. Temps now.

VRM temp 1 52'C
VRM temp 2 50'C

GPU 43'C @40% fan

 

[LtMatt]

Love his new sig - like RED rag to a bull

Thank you kind sir. Can't beat Radeon red, and this is coming from someone who's favourite colour is blue.

My max temp and fan speed were setup for my other cooler. I haven made some changes. Temps now.

VRM temp 1 52'C
VRM temp 2 50'C

GPU 43'C @40% fan

What are you benching?

 

[Beerbaron]

I was playing Tomb Raider, nothing too taxing.

 

[LtMatt]

I was playing Tomb Raider, nothing too taxing.

Do a run of Unigine Valley or something.

 

[Smudge]

Also Beer, if you click in the boxes to the left of the graphs in GPU Z you can set each one to display the max temp each category got too. It toggles between max, average and minimum. Could you set them to display max?

This is great info and im sure your post will probably sell a crap load of these coolers if the results are good. So many of us out there with ref coolers that want to silence the beast!

 

[Beerbaron]

Also Beer, if you click in the boxes to the left of the graphs in GPU Z you can set each one to display the max temp each category got too. It toggles between max, average and minimum. Could you set them to display max?

This is great info and im sure your post will probably sell a crap load of these coolers if the results are good. So many of us out there with ref coolers that want to silence the beast!

Thanks, I didn't realise I could do that I'm pretty happy with my temps and fan noise. It's a shame the cooler doesn't come with the extra heatsink coolers. I had fun with the Dremel though