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** SAPPHIRE R290 PRO REVIEW & 1000+ IN STOCK!! **

Davedree said:
because something is keepng the card clocked at full 3d clocks and voltage, its not going idown nto proper idle clocks/voltage
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That's no excuse for such temps. I've owned many cards and forced all of them to run at fixed clocks. At desktop and idle with fans at low speed they have ranged from 35-55c.

Maybe someone else with an r290 can confirm what temps they get at idle fixed clocks. To me it appears as tho svensonbanks card has a poorly fitted heatsink.
 
My 290 same make as yours I have to set fan in afterburner to 40 for quake 3
and 47 for bf4 If I dont fan stay on 20/25 If you click on user defined In afterburner fan go up and down by its self try it
 
sadbuttrue said:
That's no excuse for such temps. I've owned many cards and forced all of them to run at fixed clocks. At desktop and idle with fans at low speed they have ranged from 35-55c.

Maybe someone else with an r290 can confirm what temps they get at idle fixed clocks. To me it appears as tho svensonbanks card has a poorly fitted heatsink.
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But you don't own a 290 do you, its not a poorly fitting heatsink otherwise underload his card would be hitting 100c + it's clear from the pics like I said that its running at full speed and full voltage but without any gpu load on it, So its going to run hot. If he can get the card to idle at the proper clocks of 300mhz core 150 mhz memory and 0.958v then he'll see idle temps at 35-45c.
 
Just want to point out at stock without changing anything I think I'm getting very similar temps (I haven't tried the new drivers yet). It seems to idle at around 80C then does 95C after playing BF4 for 15+minutes. The card works a treat but the temps are a little concerning considering they should be reasonably low when idle.

I haven't looked into this all that much so tonight I'll install the new drivers and update you guys on temps. If they are still high I will try the Gibbo fix of flicking the black switch to see if that does anything!
 
Thanks guys for the advise!

I wiped the drivers, set all hardware to stock/default and put the new driver back on and kept all software settings at default. The GPU now idles between 44c - 57c at 1025rpm fan speed. I had a game on Borderlands 2 last night and the temp remained between 85c and capped shortly at 95c with 2104rpm fan speed, I hardly noticed the fan noise. I run a dual monitor setup and also noticed that the card temp idles higher when using both.

So it seems the new driver works and fixed my problem?

Just want to point out at stock without changing anything I think I'm getting very similar temps (I haven't tried the new drivers yet). It seems to idle at around 80C then does 95C after playing BF4 for 15+minutes. The card works a treat but the temps are a little concerning considering they should be reasonably low when idle.

I haven't looked into this all that much so tonight I'll install the new drivers and update you guys on temps. If they are still high I will try the Gibbo fix of flicking the black switch to see if that does anything!
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Did you manage to look into it?

My 290 same make as yours I have to set fan in afterburner to 40 for quake 3
and 47 for bf4 If I dont fan stay on 20/25 If you click on user defined In afterburner fan go up and down by its self try
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Will have a play around with that when I get the time. How are you getting on with your cards?
 
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svensonbanks said:
Thanks guys for the advise!
Did you manage to look into it?
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I did have a quick look last night and installed the new drivers. That has lowered the temps to about 60C when idle (which still seems a little high?) Then in game it hovers around 85/90 in which the fan seems quieter than it was but not by much.

I'll have another play and get some full details :D

EDIT: Idle is now doing 38-42C while browsing the web at 20% fan speed and running at 313Mhz I think?. Now to try in-game!

EDIT 2: Went up to 94C with 46% fan speed (fairly audible 40% isn't so bad though). At 947 Mhz I think.
 
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maxilive said:
I did have a quick look last night and installed the new drivers. That has lowered the temps to about 60C when idle (which still seems a little high?) Then in game it hovers around 85/90 in which the fan seems quieter than it was but not by much.

I'll have another play and get some full details :D

EDIT: Idle is now doing 38-42C while browsing the web at 20% fan speed and running at 313Mhz I think?. Now to try in-game!
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Can you screen print a log from afterburner showing gpu temp, gpu utlization, core speed, memory speed, fan rpm.

And coud you do it showing a loop of heaven and then a few minutes after to show that the idle clocks are 300 core, 150 memory ?
 
My 290 ideles at between 39 and 44c using three screens, battlefield takes it to 89-93c.

The guy asking about the 480, if its a reference design this card is no louder and no hotter!
 
Davedree said:
Can you screen print a log from afterburner showing gpu temp, gpu utlization, core speed, memory speed, fan rpm.

And coud you do it showing a loop of heaven and then a few minutes after to show that the idle clocks are 300 core, 150 memory ?
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Not sure how to get a decent log as the file just looks like a mess to me :p

But maybe these help:

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that heaven score is getting good fella,
but unfortunately the afterburner log didn't show the 3 main things I was interested in which is throttling at load, and core/ memory speed at idle

in the settings of afterburner under monitoring tab
there is the option called active hardware monitoring graphs,

Are you able to tick core clock, memory clock

or do they not exist in that section?
 
Davedree said:
that heaven score is getting good fella,
but unfortunately the afterburner log didn't show the 3 main things I was interested in which is throttling at load, and core/ memory speed at idle

in the settings of afterburner under monitoring tab
there is the option called active hardware monitoring graphs,

Are you able to tick core clock, memory clock

or do they not exist in that section?
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This is a log file during a benchmark:

http://pastebin.com/rUTjvxbf

pretty hard to read so not sure if it makes sense to you :D
 
555BUK said:
Also note that every 3dB equates to double the noise, so the 290 is in effect 9x as loud as the 780 when both are under the same load (47.5 vs 57.2dB), or just under 2x as loud as the old GTX480 dustbuster.
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3db is something like double the power but not a perceived double in loudness

the recognised dB increase for perceived double in volume is 10dB
 
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