Sapphire R9 290 Tri-x OC Heat

edd677

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Dear all,

I have just received and installed a Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC.

Within 3 minutes of starting up Battlefield 4 it had reached 88 Degrees Celsius, and the fans were at 81%.

I am yet to see this anywhere else, even after a 20 minute loop on intense purpose-built GPU testing software! I have it installed in a BitFenix prodigy, which has great airflow.

Surely this isn't right?! Any help will be immensely appreciated.

Kind regards,

Edd677
 
to get proper airflow for that card, you'd have to remove BOTH hard drive cages and put 2 140mm (im pretty sure it supports them) intakes, then put 2 exhaust fans at the top, and an exhaust at the back with fairly good high airflow fans (think the back only supports 120mm
 

bdiddytampa

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Yeah that is a really hot running card to use in a small case like that especially with the open cooler on that card. It's gonna blow all that heat right into the case :-/ Not exactly ideal...