AMD 290 Temperature readings

Shinji10TH

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Mar 26, 2013
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So anytime I try to play a recent game at 60 FPS (Witcher 3 for example) on my R9 290 OC (Gigabyte), I only see 85C+ temps, with it easily reaching 90-95 after a certain period, so I have to just lock it to 30 FPS to get around 75C.
Is it really ok to play at that threshold, and how safe is it for the other PC parts, wouldn't it also raise the ambient case temp ?

Note that the clock speed doesn't get gimped and it stills reaches the 1040 mark every now and then under those temps (But you know how unstable AMD GPUs are, so it doesn't stick there)
 

Shinji10TH

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It was like that from the start, and I keep it pretty clean, I read that 95C is the targeted load temp for the stock 290, but I don't know if a custom cooled one should reach that too.