R2 290 reference cooler and noise in silent mode?

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:20

Well, I did say long gaming stints..

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:21

Martini1991 said:
Well, I did say proper gaming stints..

I still don't think it would change. My cards reach a peak temp and stay there. They don't keep increasing. Half an hour is normally enough to bring them to their peak temp i find, but i have good airflow.

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:22

I'd hope I have good air flow, I have a Xigamatek Elysium

If you don't think it'll change, that's fine, like I say, I don't need proof.

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:23

Martini1991 said:
I'd hope I have good air flow, I have a Xigamatek Elysium

If you don't think it'll change, that's fine, like I say, I don't need proof.

Perhaps you just got a bit of a hot one. What asic is it?

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:24

Don't know, I've got a sapphire Tri-X now as of last Thursday.

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:25

Martini1991 said:
Don't know, I've got a sapphire Tri-X now as of last Thursday.

Must've been a fairly high asic im guessing to allow you to undervolt so dramatically. I can't get anywhere near that on my cards. I'm putting it to down to you had a hot one as to undervolt so much and still hit high temps is bizarre.

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:26

If I blasted the fan up I could keep it cool tbh, but at 50% no chance.

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:27

Martini1991 said:
If I blasted the fan up I could keep it cool tbh, but at 50% no chance.

I can run 1050/1250 (10% overclock) with 50-55% fan speed and my temps on both cards playing Crysis 3 are 80-85c, that's with voltage at -0.037v.

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:30

85c after half an hour? That's pretty damn hot.
That would go up after a constant 6 hours of gaming

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:31

Martini1991 said:
85c after half an hour? That's pretty damn hot.
That would go up after a constant 6 hours of gaming

Played for a couple of hours the other day as i completed the single player campaign. It didn't go past 85c and fluctuated between 82-85c depending on gpu usage. My setup below.

ICDP · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:35

Martini1991 said:
I don't need you to prove anything.
Half an hour isn't much at all though.

I mean PROPER gaming sessions, 6 hours of gaming, the heat it pumps out warms up the room, warms up everything as suddenly your PC's in taking warmer air etc etc.

50% wasn't enough.

Totally agree with your point regarding heat progressively getting worse. Though to be honest this is the same with every type of high end GPU.

I have a small room to game in and I can keep heat under control for brief 30min - 1hr runs on my R9 290X CF system. I have a Corsair H540 high airflow case and temps are great but it expels all that hot air into the room. Once the hot air builds up in the room the PC is using hot air to try to keep cool. A proper 2+ hour gaming session with CF 290s (or the SLI GTX780s I also had) becomes unbearable even with a window open in winter.

I recently did 2+ hours in Assetto Corsa which gives 80%+ scaling in CF. I eventually started noticing artefacts at stock speeds and quit the game, the VRM temperatures were 115c.

Single GPU is fine here, but I keep being a sucker and going SLI/CF for the power. Then I end up removing the extra GPU due to heat problems. I have an R9 290 sitting behind me with no intentions of ever putting it back in. I can keep it as a spare for the next few years.

As Homer Simpson famously said, "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics".

Martini1991 · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:36

That's far from a conventional fan set up, are those 3 intake?

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:39

ICDP said:
Totally agree with your point regarding heat progressively getting worse. Though to be honest this is the same with every type of high end GPU.

I have a small room to game in and I can keep heat under control for brief 30min - 1hr runs on my R9 290X CF system. I have a Corsair H540 high airflow case and temps are great but it expels all that hot air into the room. Once the hot air builds up in the room the PC is using hot air to try to keep cool. A proper 2+ hour gaming session with CF 290s (or the SLI GTX780s I also had) becomes unbearable even with a window open in winter.

I recently did 2+ hours in Assetto Corsa which gives 80%+ scaling in CF. I eventually started noticing artefacts at stock speeds and quit the game, the VRM temperatures were 115c.

Single GPU is fine here, but I keep being a sucker and going SLI/CF for the power. Then I end up removing the extra GPU due to heat problems. I have an R9 290 sitting behind me with no intentions of ever putting it back in. I can keep it as a spare for the next few years.

As Homer Simpson famously said, "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics".

Wow. I thought i had a hot room. That's bizarre mate. I find my vrms are 10-14c cooler than the core temps, even under heavy load for longer periods!!

I have changed the paste on my cards though to Gelid GC Extreme.

Martini1991 said:
That's far from a conventional fan set up, are those 3 intake?

3x120MM Gentle Typhoons with one at the rear as intake as well. I said i have good airflow. I had a 600T before this and and i saw a big reduction in temps moving to this case with those fans. However even in my old hotbox of a case 50% was just about enough to stop throttling at stock clocks in single card mode. Not enough in crossfire sadly, but that case was terrible for multi gpu temps.

ICDP · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:43

Martini1991 said:
That's far from a conventional fan set up, are those 3 intake?

He has the exact same case as me. A Corsair H540 high airflow case.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7124/corsair-carbide-air-540-case-review

It is a great case, if a little big but it really does have high airflow. All the cables are in a bay behind the motherboard so there is almost nothing stopping airflow apart from your GPUs. Of course like all cases that rely on airflow the hot air ends up in the room. If you have a large room and great ventilation then great. I have a small room and keeping a door open is not an option as I have a small baby sleeping across the hall. Even with a window open in Winter the room temperature eventually becomes unbearable for me and the PC.

ICDP · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:51

LtMatt said:
Wow. I thought i had a hot room. That's bizarre mate. I find my vrms are 10-14c cooler than the core temps, even under heavy load for longer periods!!

My situation demands quietness over cooling efficiency. I have a baby sleeping across the hall and the only time I get to game is when he is asleep.

For quietness I am using a Arctic hybrid GPU cooling set-up for my top card and a R9 290 Tri-X for the bottom card. Even with an Alpenphon Peter VRM heatsink the VRMs are hotter than a stock cooled R9 290X. In single GPU mode the VRMs will happily sit at mid-high 80s even at ~100mv and 1170/1500.

In multi GPU the heat from the bottom card will eventually (2+ hours of gaming) push the VRMs up by ~20c into the hundreds.

Stock cooled R9 290s are not an option as they are far too loud IMHO, and more importantly in the babies opinion

Having said that I had 2x GTX680s with stock coolers and they caused the exact same eventual overheating problems with long gaming sessions. I really should stop trying multi GPU, or move into the much larger spare room.

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:58

ICDP said:
My situation demands quietness over cooling efficiency. I have a baby sleeping across the hall and the only time I get to game is when he is asleep.

For quietness I am using a Arctic hybrid GPU cooling set-up for my top card and a R9 290 Tri-X for the bottom card. Even with an Alpenphon Peter VRM heatsink the VRMs are hotter than a stock cooled R9 290X. In single GPU mode the VRMs will happily sit at mid-high 80s even at ~100mv and 1170/1500.

In multi GPU the heat from the bottom card will eventually (2+ hours of gaming) push the VRMs up by ~20c into the hundreds.

Stock cooled R9 290s are not an option as they are far too loud IMHO, and more importantly in the babies opinion

Having said that I had 2x GTX680s with stock coolers and they caused the exact same eventual overheating problems with long gaming sessions. I really should stop trying multi GPU.

Yeah that's fair enough. Used a few Acceleros myself and they're deadly silent. As you find out though, the achilles heel is the vrm temps. Ok if you're not in a sweatbox mind you. The stock cooler is louder, but it does do a good (ish) job on the vrms as the fan sits right on top of them.

ICDP · 24 Apr 2014 at 08:22

LtMatt said:
Yeah that's fair enough. Used a few Acceleros myself and they're deadly silent. As you find out though, the achilles heel is the vrm temps. Ok if you're not in a sweatbox mind you. The stock cooler is louder, but it does do a good (ish) job on the vrms as the fan sits right on top of them.

With my Accelero Hybrid I got the VRMs to a similar level as an R9 290 Tri-X. Though even the Tri-X is around 5-10c higher than a stock R9 290/X for VRM temperature.

Having said that I do feel, from testing, that stock R9 290/X coolers are inefficient and barely adequate for the job.

LtMatt · 24 Apr 2014 at 08:47

ICDP said:
With my Accelero Hybrid I got the VRMs to a similar level as an R9 290 Tri-X. Though even the Tri-X is around 5-10c higher than a stock R9 290/X for VRM temperature.

Having said that I do feel, from testing, that stock R9 290/X coolers are inefficient and barely adequate for the job.

I can find no argument with that. I think we'll see a new design from AMD in future.

triss · 24 Apr 2014 at 09:05

Yes hopefully they took note and will have a newer improved model

Roll on the 390's

Jasonst888 · 24 Apr 2014 at 09:28

IDCP, you mention that you had sli gtx 780s, how did they compare to the cf 290s for temps/ noise?