R9 390 Running at 95c Normal?

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bigorangecat1987

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Hi, I recently bought an Asus R9 390 Strix graphics card and noticed that on most modern games, the card runs at about 95c and idles around 50-60c. Fan noise seems much louder than I would have expected for a card marketed as being quiet. The case I have it in is very well cooled with multiple intake and exhaust fans.

Is this normal or should I just look into optimizing the airflow in my case further?

Thanks!

 
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0C would be a faulty reading. Those 60C temps are awfully high on idle for having fans spin. I'm feeling either they did a horrid thermal paste job at the factory or the cooler is loose.
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bigorangecat1987

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Thanks for the reply. My case is the Corsair Obsidian 350D. It has a 140mm intake fan on the front, a 120mm outtake fan on the back, and two 120mm outtake fans mounted to a Corsair GTX H100i.

Fans are usually spinning while under 60c. One thing I noticed is sometimes two out of the three graphics card fans will be spinning while one isn't. However they all start spinning whenever running a game.

Not sure if this clue helps, but while running Unigine benchmarks, it always shows the temperatures at 0c.
 
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Wow those temps are awfully high especially those idle ones. I'd be contacting the company from which you bought it from and see if you can get an exchange for a new one. Or swap to a new brand of 390 ( I personally prefer the MSI version)
 
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bigorangecat1987

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Yeah, it's looking that way. I'll probably just RMA the card.



I'll look into doing that. It does appear the MSI 390 gets better reviews.
 
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Idle temp is high due to no fans spinning (if this bothers you for reasons I cannot imagine you could always set a low custom fan curve but thats pointless as the card is not in use on idle obviously)
95 degrees is actually normal with this gpu when stress testing on 100% load, i was getting 93/4 degrees on heaven benchmark. the chip runs hot as hell but it is fine to run at this temperature. Once again i think you can set different fan curve due to msi being set not to run at 100% as far as I'm aware (sounds like a fighter jet taking off next to your face). Think my last one was running at about 70% fan speed at 95 degrees.

You shouldn't be reaching these temperatures in games alone though, should be more around the 80-85 mark in more recent titles from my experience with stock cooler and stock paste.

If it is bothering you that much you have a few options with the card itself as far as I'm aware (if you want to keep the card anyway),
1) Set fan speed to 100% once you hit say 85 degrees, helps if you're deaf.
2) attach an aio water cooling set up with a g10 bracket and a small amount of modification due to non reference pcb layout.it will require some copper heatsinks as to avoid frying your vrms.
3) EKs site sells a full cover water block for the msi 390/x, although this is the most expensive option as it will set you back around £100 for the block alone.
 
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