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R9 280X Idle & Load Temperatures

Chris1479
By Chris1479
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Hey LTT,

 

I'm having GPU cooling issues and some input would be great. Firstly it's a coolermaster case with silencing foam inside and - aside from the GPU - keeps my PC almost silent. But the Powercolor 280x I bought is so loud it's ridiculous, it's by far the loudest thing in my case.

 

The idle temp seems high, is that normal and is there anything I can do about it?

 

Short of buying a 3rd party VGA cooler, which I don't think would fit because the backplate would hit the motherboard's 15pin power connector, can anyone recommend a way to get the temperature at load down?

 

I was thinking that if I could get some configuration of one or two other well placed fans perhaps I could keep the 280x sufficiently cooled that it doesn't need to go up past the 60%+ mark where it really starts to get annoyingly loud.

 

Any ideas to get my PC back to being silent again?

 

Chris

 

Edit: I should also mention that it's an mATX board so space is at a premium and I realise my Xonar DG sound card is not helping matters here. There is also a PCI slot exhaust fan situated above the 280x but again it's so loud and molex only so I can't bear to keep it plugged in most of the time.

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I mean you have a cramped space inside case and expecting one of the generic brands to OC well in said space. I guess if you wanted you could take the cooler off and apply some really nice thermal compound. Not much is going to help except for dropping the power limit back to %100 and getting your volts as low as possible.

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I've dropped the power limit as well as undervolted it and it has no effect on the temperatures, so I decided to just overclock it and leave it at that. And I did measure the temps before and after changing the volts and no dice unfortunately. Hence me wondering if there was a fan or fan controller style solution to this.

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Yeah it is a pci slot cooler, loud like you wouldn't believe. Not sure I want to risk bricking my 280x with a modded bios though...

i5 2500k @ 4.4 // 8Gb DDR3 Ripjaw // EVO 212 CPU Cooler // Xonar DG Soundcard // 250Gb Samsung EVO SSD // 60Gb M4 SSD

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