Note: I have been monitoring the VRM temps and even after the crash they haven't gone over 85. I do not believe that not yet having VRM heatsinks is the problem.
SPECS:
AMD R9 290 REFERENCE with H55 and G10 bracket
FX 6300 with EVO 212+
8GB RAM
Asrock 970 Extreme3
Windows 8.1
Corsair 300R
I've had two crashes so far, the first one was caused by me wanting to test out the game Distance with multimonitors but then either when it was loading or had just loaded my screens suddenly went black and I had to do a hard reset. Second time happened after I was able to successfully recreate it with the same game (I don't want to try a third time due to being scared I may be harming my system by doing so).
I'm not sure whether it has to do with how my heat is circulating properly , whether or not I used enough/too much thermal paste, or if my G10 isn't screwed in enough. Also when my case is right-side-up the temperature quickly increases, but when it is on its side it will appear to stay at a lower temperature (until I do anything taxing, then it will rise in temperature).
For the hour of it seemingly working fine the max temps for the GPU was around mid 60s after a steady incline. Now if i play a game or benchmark it will shoot up to 60 or 70 depending on which one and rise another 10 and apparently have the possibility of instantly crashing.
SPECS:
AMD R9 290 REFERENCE with H55 and G10 bracket
FX 6300 with EVO 212+
8GB RAM
Asrock 970 Extreme3
Windows 8.1
Corsair 300R
I've had two crashes so far, the first one was caused by me wanting to test out the game Distance with multimonitors but then either when it was loading or had just loaded my screens suddenly went black and I had to do a hard reset. Second time happened after I was able to successfully recreate it with the same game (I don't want to try a third time due to being scared I may be harming my system by doing so).
I'm not sure whether it has to do with how my heat is circulating properly , whether or not I used enough/too much thermal paste, or if my G10 isn't screwed in enough. Also when my case is right-side-up the temperature quickly increases, but when it is on its side it will appear to stay at a lower temperature (until I do anything taxing, then it will rise in temperature).
For the hour of it seemingly working fine the max temps for the GPU was around mid 60s after a steady incline. Now if i play a game or benchmark it will shoot up to 60 or 70 depending on which one and rise another 10 and apparently have the possibility of instantly crashing.