BrianH

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Well I have settled on the overclock at 1.2v 1200MHz/1600Mhz +20% power limit. I had to force constant voltage with MSI afterburner to get it to work properly.

Ok, I have tried it again with the power level set to +20%. I was able to get the GPU overclocked to 1170MHz/1600MHz. However when benchmarking these, the core voltage readout (GPU-Z) stayed around the same voltage, 1.050v - 1.150v. I was getting those same voltage reading before putting the power limit to +20%.

I haven't put it to the max (+20%), but I did try +10% however it did not seem to change anything. when I had it at +10% and tried higher clocks (compared to what I was already able to get) it did not make any difference stability wise, still got crashes..

I have a Club 3D radeon r9 280x RoyalQueen 3GB, which is water cooled. However I believe that I am having some issues with overclocking. I have MSI Afterburner installed and I have only been able to get the core clock to 1165Mhz and the memory clock to 1575Mhz, oh and the default clocks are 1050Mhz/1500Mhz . I have not been able to successfully change the voltage (and yes I have selected the Unlock voltage in the afterburner settings). When I try to change the voltage in afterburner, the slider bar stays at what I put it at, but non of the voltage readouts actually change and stability does not get better. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Currently the CPU is overclocked to 4.7ghz at 1.28v, I probably could get it a bit higher but haven't had a whole lot of time to validate a higher overclock. as for the GPU I have been having some issues with getting a nice overclock. I am going to post a thread in the graphics card section to see if I can get some help with my GPU and overclocking.

what I would probably recommend is if you are only planning on wanting 1 to 2 HDDs, you could use the 5.25" optical drive cage and get 5.25" to 3.5 adapter such as this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0VE-000W-00007&_ga=1.138063088.1369644180.1425235096 .

Well from my build I can tell you that I had a 240mm in the top and it was a slim rad and there was not much room between the rad and the RAM once it is installed, so the 280mm rad up top may not fit. I took a quick look at the small HDD cage, and I do not believe that it will fit in with the front 280mm rad (mainly because the rad's intake/output tanks)

During Unigine Heaven benchmarking on Highest settings, the GPU maxed out at 42c. For the CPU, during benchmarking in 7zip and Cinebench, its avg was 68c.

Thanks. Well my cpu idle temp is around 35c and the GPU idle is around 34c. oh and here are the specs for my build: Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (black w/ window side panel) Mobo: Asus z87-a CPU: i7 4790K Ram: 16gb Corsair 1600Mhz Video: Club3d Royal queen R9 280x PSU: Corsair HX750 SSD: Crucial MX100 256gb Water cooling parts and pieces: CPU: Koolance 380i GPU: EK-FC7970 - Acetal CSQ Rads: Black Ice Nemesis GT Stealth 240 X-Flow Radiator / Black Ice GT Xtreme 280 Radiator Pump: D5 vario with a bitspower mod kit Res: Bitspower single D5 upgrade kit 150 Tubing: Primochill UV blue LRT Fittings: all Bitspower oh and some UV led strips for interior light

This is my first post and I wanted to post a few pics of my first custom water cooling loop that I just finished.