Help over heating 290x

Red8

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Hi thanks for read! So as you can tell from my title I have a Msi r9 290x 5gbd bf4 edition gpu coupled with a Nzxt craken adaptor with a corsair h55 and I set the radiator as my rear exhaust in my Nzxt h440 case with a noctua p14 fan pushing air through the front of the radiator so it goes through the rad and out the rear of the case. But when idle I hit tempts of 51-54c and when gaming it steadily climbs and withing about 30 minutes of playing bf4 on ultra it reaches 80-85c then eventual my screen goes black and my pc is still running but doesn't show on the screen which I assumed is what happens when it over heats. I was wondering since I bought this used what I can do to do to fix this. I have artic silver thermal paste but know if that will do anything. Also when I first got the cooler I could hear the water sloshing around and it gurgled for a good 15-30 seconds when I first started it up if that is any help. My case also consist of an amd 8320 that has a corsair h100 top mount with 2 cougar turbines pushing air through the radiator as exhaust as well with two 140mm fans in the front of the case as intake maxed out speeds. If that is any help as well. Any help is great appreciated! Thanks for reading I just can't stand it not being able to play games for more than 30-45 minutes with it over heating.

P.s I have a few cooler master fans 120nm cheapies, a few stock corsair cooler fans 120mm and one fan from my hyper evo 212 plus as well for extras
 
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You need to drop the max frequency for the GPU and Memory both until you stop overheating.

Since you modded this yourself it's possible you aren't properly cooling other parts of the card such as the voltage regulators. I'm not sure if you had a GUIDE for how to mod this or not but it's obviously not being cooled properly.

If you can't properly cool all the important parts of the graphics card you'll need to put it back together with the original parts.

*Again not sure of how you modded but you may have some luck adding small heatsinks to the VRM's and/or memory if exposed and also rig up a fan to blow air across the circuit board from a few inches away.
You need to drop the max frequency for the GPU and Memory both until you stop overheating.

Since you modded this yourself it's possible you aren't properly cooling other parts of the card such as the voltage regulators. I'm not sure if you had a GUIDE for how to mod this or not but it's obviously not being cooled properly.

If you can't properly cool all the important parts of the graphics card you'll need to put it back together with the original parts.

*Again not sure of how you modded but you may have some luck adding small heatsinks to the VRM's and/or memory if exposed and also rig up a fan to blow air across the circuit board from a few inches away.
 
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Red8

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Sorry I didn't to press solution, but like I was saying i didn't do the mod and do not have the original cooler is there anything else I could do? Better fans or something or thermal paste change and what/how would I lower the frequency?