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Asus DirectCu II R9 290 Higher than normal Idle and Load Temps?

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May 29, 2014 1:59:15 PM

Hey guys,

*Sorry about the long post too, just want to get all the details in there :) 

I just bought an Asus DirectCu II R9 290 yesterday and have been finding my idle and load temps are higher than expected, I know the R9 290/290x are supposed to run hot but from what I've read in reviews the DirectCu II cooler should've dealt with that.

At idle I'm running 50c (with nothing open)
During Heaven benchmarks/in games I'm peaking at about 94c

AMD overdrive is on with stock clocks and a max fan speed of 47% as well as max allowable temp at 95c (defaults). I would change the latter value but I'm concerned that would cause the card to throttle.

Performance seems good though, I'm consistently able to hit about 1250 on the heaven 4.0 benchmarks at 1080p with everything cranked up and no hiccups in titanfall so far.

Case has ample cooling - running a Corsair 350D with the following fan configuration:
Exhaust = 1x 120mm fan in the back and 2x 140mm fan in the top grill
Intake = 2x 140mm fans in the front grill
All fans are Noctua and I'm also running an NH-D14 as my cpu cooler which should also help circulate the air. Ambient temps are also lower than average since I'm in a basement.

To give you some perspective, my previous 680 lightning edition in the same rig and room ran about 32-35c at idle and 65-70c under load.

I'm thinking about redoing the thermal paste on the card since that's given me good results on my previous GPUs but just wondering if anyone else has any experience with the DirectCu II cooling on the R9 290? Have you had similar temps out of the box?

Thanks!

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May 30, 2014 1:16:03 PM

Plusthinking Iq said:
have a look here:


http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-r9-290-and-290x,re...


Thanks for the link! I'd read about this in some of the user reviews on Newegg but hadn't actually seen any pictures depicting the discrepancy between the heat sink plate and the actual GPU, very interesting. Though reading through reviews like these:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/05/19/asus_radeon_r...
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/03/03/as...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-and-2...

I'm still curious why my temps, especially idle temps, are so different. Will update when I've had a chance to re-paste as well in case anyone else is having the same problem.
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June 4, 2014 9:47:19 AM

Figured it out - I run two monitors in my setup and when running >1 monitor the memory clocks seem to shoot up from 150mHz to 1250mHz. Testing with the second monitor off brought my temps down to a relatively normal 45ish.

Not fantastic but I've just chosen to ignore it since in game performance has been fine haha. Hopefully this helps if anyone else is running a multi-monitor setup and finds their temps a bit higher then expected!
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