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R9 290x at 94c

dubsdj

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Hi I have been monitoring my graphics card during far cry3 and I have a question.

Initially I installed MSI Afterburner and had the fans increase as temp increases however it was very noisy. I read somewhere that the R9 runs at 95c which is supposedly acceptable.

So I uninstalled Afterburner and checked in overdrive on the Radeon settings page. The fan is set to automatic so I thought it will just increase the speed if the card gets hot.

however playing Far Cry 3 and switching between GPUZ I noticed the card had reached around 94c but the fan was still set at 40%. Does the Radeon not increase its fan speed automatically or does it just think that's fine?

I didn't see any frame rate dropping so my question would be is this fine and normal for that graphics card?

thanks
 
If your 290x is the one with a reference cooler, I would strongly suggest you download and use 3rd party apps such as MSI Afterburner, where you can set up a custom fanspeed profile which will allow the fanspeed to go up or down according to the temp, as well as overclocking.

And yea also what Tonester said above as well. It will go from "quiet mode" to "performance mode".
 
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If you manually set the fan speed in overdrive then it stays that speed all the time. Make sure that is unticked first!
 
You can set the fan speed in CCC.

At 40%, a reference 290 is likely to throttle. Increase it to 60%-70%, and the speed will ramp up as the card gets hot.
 
As the others have said, first make sure CCC isn't set to run at a constant fan speed. Assuming it's a reference cooler you have, the card is set up to keep the fan slow and quiet until it hits the 90s C, then the fan will ramp up until it's just fast enough to keep your GPU at 94C. If the fan hits the limit you've set (47% in normal BIOS, 55% if the BIOS switch is set to Uber), then the clock speed will drop until the card finds the right mix of fan speed and core clock to keep it at 94C. AMD designed the card to run at 94C so I guess they believe it won't damage the card, and they really should be the ones to know!

If you want to allow the card to run its fan faster (I let mine go up to 100% if it needed it, never actually needed more than 60%), or you want the card to aim for a lower temperature, then simply move the sliders in CCC accordingly.
 
with the default fan profile my old 290 used to get up to about 92c under load, I set a custom fan profile in MSI afterburner and managed to keep the temps at about 80-84c without the need to get the fan over 60%, although this is in my corsair 540 which has pretty decent airflow which I think helps.
 
hmm thanks, I haven't manually set anything in the overdrive profile manual fan control is unchecked.
so I'm curious why gpuz said 40% fan speed yet the temp was around 94c. Interestingly it never moved from 94c after that, never went above it for over an hour so I guess something was going on to stop it hitting 95c.

so I should switch uber mode on (on the gpu unit) ?

my Case holds a watercooled I7 4790 or something along those lines, however its a very old case which probably isn't fit for the job as it is nearly 8 years old and it used to host a core2 duo system.

I had to retrofit the board / graphics card by drilling extra holes etc. I just love the case so much I didn't want to have to change it :) + I didn't want to spend a load more cash on a new one.
 
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