MSI R9-290 making my room feel like a sauna! How can i cool this card better considering air cooling does not work?

Ferrariassassin · Feb 15, 2015

So my PC specs are below and my case is a Rosewill CHALLENGER and i have 4 120MM Corsair AF fans and 1 140MM Corsair AF fan. The 2 120 on the side panel are intakes and so is the one in the front panel, the one on top and rear of the PC are exhaust fans. I do not know if this is the best place to have them. What i am confused about is that when i turn all 5 of my case fans my PC stays the same exact temperature as when they are all at %100 so i may just take all of my case fans out and not use them. In fact my GPU runs 2 degrees cooler when every fan in my case is off so my mind is blown. These fans may not be the best but they are great quality. but back to the main question, my GPU runs idle at 37-40 degrees but when i play games such as Far Cry 4, Minecraft with shaders, Skyrim with 240 Graphical Mods, and anything that uses %100 of the GPU it runs always at 80-90 degrees no matter what i do and it makes my room soooo hot its crazy. My GPU runs these games like a dream i mean its perfect it is just the temp i hate. I have been researching and i have found out that due to the MSI R9-290 not being well known or popular not many people have made alternate cooling methods for this card so what do i do, is there a water cooling block out there?

gloryofthesky · Feb 15, 2015

Hmmm, seems like a fan issue to me.

Clean out all dust within the computer, this could be causing it.

Download EVGA Precision X and HWMONITOR - http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor-pro/hwmonitor-pro_1.22.exe

Also download FurMark. Run the Furmark stress test and look at your temp's in HWMONITOR for your GPU, note if the fan speed is changing at all during your testing. If its not then it could be your fan speed is on manual some how.

Is your fan speeding going to 100% when running furmark?

rgd1101 · Feb 15, 2015

the gpu temp look fine for 100% gpu usage.
If it the room temp that you have problem with, turn on the air conditioner. The fan did it job, it pull the hot air from inside the pc to outside the pc.

robax91 · Feb 15, 2015

If your room is warm, changing the cooling on the card isn't going to change that. The total heat dissipation is changing the temperature of the room... so changing the cooling on the card will only reduce the temps for the card itself, the heat still has to go somewhere (ie the room or if you have a radiator that leads to another room) but there is something you actually can do. You can undervolt both your CPU and GPU. This usually doesn't cost any performance if done right, but can produce less heat by lowering the voltage going to the CPU and GPU, making them run more efficiently and cooler.

Lets say you can lower your CPU voltage by .09v and your GPU by say .2v ... You may lose like 0-4% performance, but you are probably cutting the wattage by 10-20% depending on your parts. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it really is. Look up how to undervolt both the CPU and GPU. Youtube has several step by step guides.

Vici0us · Feb 15, 2015

If you don't want custom water loop then.

Kraken G10 + Kraken X41

Ferrariassassin · Feb 15, 2015

Vici0us :

That product does not fit the MSI version of the R9-290 i tried

Ferrariassassin · Feb 15, 2015

gloryofthesky :

aw

On FUrmark its at like %90. And when i try Prime 95 my CPU gets 100-120 degrees also.

rgd1101 · Feb 15, 2015

i try Prime 95 my CPU gets 100-120 degrees also.

I don't think is possible, the cpu would have throttle itself before hitting that high.

Ferrariassassin · Feb 15, 2015

rgd1101 :

Well i posted this before and everyone said its s glitch in the program but the CPU does get that hot i promise. When i put my hand close to the CPU there isnt even heat coming from it and my Heat radar i use in Auto shops only shows it at 60 degrees so could it be the program?

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