R9 290X Owners Thread

Geeman1979 · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:14

Cheapest 120mm AIO you can find will keep it under control as long as it fits.

Bonjour · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:17

I have 2 hooked up to H55s. Perfectly adequate as long as the rads have decent airflow.

P4Clock · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:20

What is the vrm and ram cooling like with the Kraken. Do i need extra sinks or dose it have some.

Bonjour · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:24

Ah. I have HG10s, as I wasn't happy with the idea of leaving the VRMs bare. The Kraken should really ship with something to whack in the VRMs at least.

Geeman1979 · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:26

P4Clock said:
What is the vrm and ram cooling like with the Kraken. Do i need extra sinks or dose it have some.

Probably be fine if you don't pump a load of voltage through it. The bracket has a cooling fan does it not?

Bonjour · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:32

It has a fan, yes. The memory is fine, but I'd be concerned about the VRMs.

P4Clock · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:43

Also there is 3 vrm at the front(i/o side) of the card, there is no fan there.

Bonjour · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:45

There are, in a little triangle formation. The fan does little for them.

Geeman1979 · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:55

It's a case of how longs a piece of string. Your safest bet will be to add some form of Vrm cooling heat sinks.

Geeman1979 · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:09

P4Clock said:
What is the vrm and ram cooling like with the Kraken. Do i need extra sinks or dose it have some.

Why not go with the Corsair bracket if other users around have used them and are satisfied?

The Tourist · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:12

pugheaven said:
Yep, what's up?

Great, OK so I'm running the following:

CPU I7 3930K
GPU MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 4096MB (x2)
ASUS Ramage IV Extreme Motherboard
16GB RAM
1200W PSU
Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit (New install)
Resolution 1920 x 1080 @ 60hz

My display flickers randomly and inconsistently. Whether on the desktop, in a game or watching a film. Every now and then the display will flicker once, very briefly. Also, there is some stuttering. Sometimes when moving the mouse on the desktop it will stutter/stick very briefly. Sometimes a game will also stutter very briefly.
So far there is only one circumstance where the display will go black and lose signal and that is during a specific game. The PC is locked up at this point and needs to be switched off at the mains in order to restart it.

What do you guys think?

P4Clock · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:15

Geeman1979 said:
Why not go with the Corsair bracket if other users around have used them and are satisfied?

it looks poo tbf, you have the take apart you old cooler and fit the blower into the hg10. that spins and cooler the VRM and ram but there is no heat sinks on the then so i cant see hot it cools them. because of how a blower work it would just throw air all over the place

Divine Pain · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:16

What monitor you using?

P4Clock · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:21

Just seen an review/test of the hg10 and vrm 2 hit 85c running valley

P4Clock · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:23

The Tourist said:
Great, OK so I'm running the following:

CPU I7 3930K
GPU MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 4096MB (x2)
ASUS Ramage IV Extreme Motherboard
16GB RAM
1200W PSU
Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit (New install)
Resolution 1920 x 1080 @ 60hz

My display flickers randomly and inconsistently. Whether on the desktop, in a game or watching a film. Every now and then the display will flicker once, very briefly. Also, there is some stuttering. Sometimes when moving the mouse on the desktop it will stutter/stick very briefly. Sometimes a game will also stutter very briefly.
So far there is only one circumstance where the display will go black and lose signal and that is during a specific game. The PC is locked up at this point and needs to be switched off at the mains in order to restart it.

What do you guys think?

remove all overclocks idealy reset Bios and the GPU's and test system

also what brand 1200W PSU

Geeman1979 · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:33

P4Clock said:
Just seen an review/test of the hg10 and vrm 2 hit 85c running valley

Personally I don't rate any of them. Your best off going full watercooling or, for a card that's factory custom cooled.

Bonjour · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:35

P4Clock said:
Just seen an review/test of the hg10 and vrm 2 hit 85c running valley

Did they set a custom fan profile in Afterburner (or similar). If you don't the fan never speeds up as the core is sitting at a comfortable temperature.

I can do a Unigine test on mine if you like, and report back VRM temps.

P4Clock · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:38

Bonjour said:
Did they set a custom fan profile in Afterburner (or similar). If you don't the fan never speeds up as the core is sitting at a comfortable temperature.

I can do a Unigine test on mine if you like, and report back VRM temps.

that would be supper.

Bonjour · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:47

Did a run of Valley. VRM1 temp peaked at 65C. Maximum VRM2 temp was 56C.

Neither GPU exceeded 50C.

Geeman1979 · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:53

That's not bad at all actually. A better test would be with something like BF4 for an hour or so to get them really warmed up.