Yikes!

breadturbo · 19 Dec 2013 at 14:36

Didn't realise the difference a waterblock would make to the 290!

Before I had that noisy stock fan zapping away in my lughole and the cards heating upto 85c on load amd throttling a tad (with 290x bios)

Bobbed an EK copper/acetal block plus backplate on this morning, went out leaving them running heaven.

Came back they're STILL at 38c load, with the vrm's (according to gpuz) at 35c!!
All using one ford sierra rad and two bitfenix 230mm case fans

the silence is wonderful

Ragnahex · 19 Dec 2013 at 15:36

yeah these cards cry for watercooling. i have 2 290's under water in a near silence pc. they run cool as hell all the performance none of the downsides

gary996 · 19 Dec 2013 at 16:38

I think its the only way to go with the 290's

Allnamestaken · 19 Dec 2013 at 16:51

Thats what I intend to do

BubbySoup · 19 Dec 2013 at 16:51

Yep, I tested mine out with their fans (oh dear), and then went straight to water. All of the performance, none of the bwahhhhhhh!

Ragnahex · 19 Dec 2013 at 16:54

i got one. was noisy and throttling. got water block. realised how nicely it ran. bought another

breadturbo · 19 Dec 2013 at 17:40

I need a new psu now though, it's too noisy

The thing is, now they are soo cool, I can't resist OC'ing the nads off them.
normally i leave components a month or so before i start :/

Ragnahex · 19 Dec 2013 at 17:42

i just asked yesterday what is the quietest high power psu

. mine is by far the loudest part of my pc now (and it isn't that loud)

Diagro · 19 Dec 2013 at 17:59

Xfx pro 1kw platinum. When gaming the psu has its fan off for 30% of the time

breadturbo · 19 Dec 2013 at 18:07

I'm using an ax1200i atm, which does fine but I may want a 3rd 290 later on and from what I hear it's not upto the task, may end up getting one of those superflowers.