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Tri-Fire AMD Brethren
- Thread starter LtMatt
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Do it.
Just think about all the new things you could moan about.
Business must be good OP (see what I did there) with all this new kit you have been buying the last couple of weeks.
Very disappointed you didn't go xfire 290X LTG.
Well i still might end up going that route, i can always sell the 290's and that will pay for 1 and a half lightnings, almost.
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Do it.
Just think about all the new things you could moan about.
Well i still might end up going that route, i can always sell the 290's and that will pay for 1 and a half lightnings, almost.
Tri-fire scaling
Triple card noise
Triple card heat
It's almost worth it for that alone!
I think I'd rather have 2 really good cards than 3 good cards though. Just makes things easier (where would I put my soundcard?)
I'll have to have a re-think when I price up my Haswell-E build... (come on 290 XTXs, reference PCBs)
Interested to know where you found a reference 290?
New or used?
It is a VTX3D card isn't it? You're not gonna completely ruin this by mixing card manufacturers are you? I think you'd have to give up your enthusiast card as well as you 'man' card if you did that...
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Tri-fire scaling - Mostly very good
Triple card noise - Normal people watercool in these situations
Triple card heat - See above
It's almost worth it for that alone!
Indeed
Haha.
Yep I'm going to ruin it. Believe me i looked for VTX reference cooled cards, couldn't find any. I wanted brand new too. Got it from the rainforest, Asus R9 290. Would have got one from OcuK if they still sold them.
EDIT
Blimey these Noctua Industrial fans are loud lol. Coming from me, that means they're loud. I don't think i need to worry about the 290's being the loudest thing in my case. Even on Silent they make a racket. In their defense, i have never seen so much forceful airflow coming from them. Incredible. For most people id recommend the 2000rpm versions instead though.
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Pffft girl.
Both my rads will be getting the 3000rpm noctua treatment shortly
If you want loud speak to Nick, fairly sure he was running 5400rpm typhoons at one point
Haha they are beasts tips. However i wasn't expecting them to be this loud. Nonetheless, my system is ready for Tri Fire now. Carbide air 540 with loads of Noctua Industrials.
Had a new motherboard recently too so had to set up my 5ghz 24/7 profile again, luckily i had all the numbers stored in my brain. Funnily enough im running less voltage on my new board too as the vdroop is a lot better than my old one.
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If you're running 5ghz, what's that, say 1.4v? You may well need more power. I would say definitely with overclocking runs.
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Jeez that's quite a lot for 24/7 even for that chip, but if it's worked this long I'd keep on trotting. How many fans in total?
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine
Extreme PSU calc flags roughly just under 930w with your CPU overclock calculated at 90% TDP.
You'll trip that thing as soon as you add anything to those cards, so your plan is wise!
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine
Extreme PSU calc flags roughly just under 930w with your CPU overclock calculated at 90% TDP.
You'll trip that thing as soon as you add anything to those cards, so your plan is wise!
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1.424v is supposed to be the max safe voltage, im only one notch over that. Never skipped a beat. The spec sheet says 1.525v is the maximum allowed. The good thing is with a H110 i can keep it under 72c at gaming load, even in this heat.
Three of these in the front.
Two of these on the H110 in exhaust.
One GT 1850 RPM in the rear as exhaust. I may change that to a Noctua too, or i may flip it and make it intake. Overall it works better as exhaust i think, but i lose positive pressure more often than not unless it's intaking because the gpu's blow out a lot of air.
Three of these in the front.
Two of these on the H110 in exhaust.
One GT 1850 RPM in the rear as exhaust. I may change that to a Noctua too, or i may flip it and make it intake. Overall it works better as exhaust i think, but i lose positive pressure more often than not unless it's intaking because the gpu's blow out a lot of air.
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Keep the rear as exhaust.
With three ref cards blasting heat out the back, some of that hot air would only be fed back into the case if it was an intake.
With three ref cards blasting heat out the back, some of that hot air would only be fed back into the case if it was an intake.
That's my thinking. Even with two cards i noticed it was still exhausting some heat. I just need to decide now how im going to seat the three cards. Do i make use of my 2x16 PCI-E2 slots and stick card number three in the peasant pci-e x8 slot? Or do i go X16 + x8 x8. The latter would allow space between card 1 and 2 with 2 and 3 close together. However the static pressure of my fans should help a lot here.
I like the idea of using both my X16 slots and using a x8 slot for the third card.
EDIT
Actually not sure if those X16 slots remain as X16 if i use three cards. Hmm.
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You know you'll be trying both ways anyway
You know you'll be trying both ways anyway
I will. I want to try and get the cards on similar (ish) temps so ill keep swapping them round till i get it roughly similar. Not sure how the X16 layout will work though. Time to youtube.
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I'd personally just keep them in the top three. You've a side intake anyway
Manual says: x16 single / x16, x16 dual / x16, x8, x8 triple / x8, x8, x8, x8 quad/
Was pretty sure it was 16x, 8x 8x
Manual says: x16 single / x16, x16 dual / x16, x8, x8 triple / x8, x8, x8, x8 quad/
Was pretty sure it was 16x, 8x 8x
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I have a carbide 540, no side intakes.
So putting in a third card makes the second blue slot go x8? That's a shame.
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That's the max!