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Will undervolting my 290x reduce me temperatures whilst gaming without reducing performance?

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If you can make it stable, sure...

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If you can make it stable, sure...

kl, furmark and valley good benchmarks for checking stability on undervolts?

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kl, furmark and valley good benchmarks for checking stability on undervolts?

Yes and no. You can never be sure. It may pass synthetic benchmarks but may have problems in real games. Usualy it is not the case. But I would definitely give it a try. I was able to overclock and undervolt my i7 4770k. 4.0GHz core + cache and only 1.04V.

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kl, furmark and valley good benchmarks for checking stability on undervolts?

Avoid Furmark, Valley is good.

 

What is your temp btw?

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Avoid Furmark, Valley is good.

 

What is your temp btw?

was hitting 89C at highest during valley, got it down to 85/84C by undervolting a bit

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was hitting 89C at highest during valley, got it down to 85/84C by undervolting a bit

 

Is that with side panel closed? What temp will you get with side panel open?

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kl, furmark and valley good benchmarks for checking stability on undervolts?

 

DO NOT USE FURMARK!!!! It is a known card killer. I honestly don't understand why people keep suggesting any one use this. Just stick with Valley and in-game benchmarks or actual game play as that will give you real-world conditions/loads. Furmark creates very unrealistic loads on your GPU and can damage or kill the card.

 

Will undervolting my 290x reduce me temperatures whilst gaming without reducing performance?

 

It can. From my experience with OCing my 290, adding voltage is what effects core temps the most. Try lowering it by 10-15mV at a time and see how stable it is. If it starts showing flashing/artifacts on the screen or crashes, then you know you can't go any lower. 

 

Have you considered installing a Kraken G10 water cooling adapter with a low-cost AIO like an H55? That's what I'm running and even with an OC of 1100/1500 +0mV, I have a hard time getting it to go much over 60 degrees. ;)

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@CalumGiff - Some other things you could try, if you don't want to go water cooled:

 

-Re-apply the thermal paste (spread a VERY thin but uniform layer of TIM over the die, this works better on GPUs vs the pea method).

-Optimize airflow in your case (run your intake fans at higher rpm if you can and make sure you have sufficient intake/exhaust flow).

-Run Vsync in games (this can allow for lower loads on the GPU, depending on the game, which will further reduce operating temps).

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Yes, as long as it's stable. I suggest going slowly and testing each setting extensively in real games before going further down.

done some testing in real games aswell as both synthetic benchmarks. Everything seems stable @ -62mv and temps are much better with 78C max in witcher 3 instead of 83C

 

 

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DO NOT USE FURMARK!!!! It is a known card killer. I honestly don't understand why people keep suggesting any one use this. Just stick with Valley and in-game benchmarks or actual game play as that will give you real-world conditions/loads. Furmark creates very unrealistic loads on your GPU and can damage or kill the card.

 

 

It can. From my experience with OCing my 290, adding voltage is what effects core temps the most. Try lowering it by 10-15mV at a time and see how stable it is. If it starts showing flashing/artifacts on the screen or crashes, then you know you can't go any lower. 

 

Have you considered installing a Kraken G10 water cooling adapter with a low-cost AIO like an H55? That's what I'm running and even with an OC of 1100/1500 +0mV, I have a hard time getting it to go much over 60 degrees. ;)

I may do that at some point but currently i have no money :P I'm 18 and looking for a job for a year before going to uni

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