R9 290X Lightning VRM cooling

[VoxPopuli]

Hi guys. I'm new here. "lured" here by nice videos of Linus.

 

Recently I bought a shiny MSI R9 290X Ligntning which is hot monster graphics card. 

 

but what I heard from my friend is R9 290X with reference cooler has a heat problem with VRMs.

 

He said like this: not with proper VRM cooling, 290X will throttle down its clock or result in decreased lifespan of a whole card.

 

But I know that "Trifrozer" cooling solution of lightning VGA series are way better than reference cooler.

 

So my point is, do I have to worry about VRM temperature of my lightning when it's under heavy load of gaming?

 

and I'll OC it a little bit like core clock 1100~1150Mhz. while trying not to tamper with voltage.

 

Will VRM temp be a problem when it comes to total lifespan of the card? I want to be with this card as long as I can.

[Freaky_spider]

my 780 lightning has a metric butt ton of censors, 

 

if you download GPU-Z you can read them all

[TheSLSAMG]

Lays, you have one, right?

[Levent]

nop that overclock is fine 

[Xaring]

You should not have  aproblem with the throttling downn. MSI Lightning trifrozer are fucking epic coolers, (i dont own one but im jealous of my friend with a 780 lightning ) and hes overclocked it to stupid numbers before getting any problems. 

It should be fine, its not the reference coolers so MSI will have addressed the issue.

[VoxPopuli]

my 780 lightning has a metric butt ton of censors, 

 

if you download GPU-Z you can read them all

 

is monitoring software accurate? Actually I don't believe much like realtemp or similar kind of things.

 

what I know is temp on software is just a guess. Calculated by Tjmax and voltage. Is this only applies to CPU? or same with GPU?

[Norman_the_Owl]

Any lightning card is solid. You'll be fine, your VRM's oughtt to be nice and chilly

[Freaky_spider]

is monitoring software accurate? Actually I don't believe much like realtemp or similar kind of things.

 

what I know is temp on software is just a guess. Calculated by Tjmax and voltage. Is this only applies to CPU? or same with GPU?

nono, lightning cards have equal temp probes

 

they might not be 100% accurate, but its not gonna be that far off

 

note that VRM generally gets hot because there is little area to cool it, and it can handle high temps, the ones a lightning has are rated at 105°C (or 115°C, cant remember correctly)

[VoxPopuli]

nono, lightning cards have equal temp probes

 

they might not be 100% accurate, but its not gonna be that far off

 

note that VRM generally gets hot because there is little area to cool it, and it can handle high temps, the ones a lightning has are rated at 105°C (or 115°C, cant remember correctly)

 

Ah. Thanks for advice. Surely it is prepared for LN2 situations.