390 or Nvidia equivalent? (read full post please)

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Any open air 970 . And no overclocks. All cards get hot once you overclock. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

I mean I can but like the one person said I get paranoid about something happened to it when it gets hot. Anything over 70c worries me.

 

A 970 usually runs over 70C. Mine runs 74C in the summer, 72C in the winter on the normal fan profile which turns them to 70% at 70C. I can get it down to 58C at full load now in the summer if I turn my fans up to 80%, but it sounds like a jet engine.

[Rusty_Shackleford]

A 970 usually runs over 70C. Mine runs 74C in the summer, 72C in the winter on the normal fan profile which turns them to 70% at 70C. I can get it down to 58C at full load now in the summer if I turn my fans up to 80%, but it sounds like a jet engine.

 

What case are you using?

[SteveGrabowski0]

What case are you using?

 

Antec GX500 with three 120mm intake fans. 

[Humbug]

LOL- saw the threat title and thought I was gonna have to read a long essay.

 

Anyway so During the RMA I did some research and found out that amd cards run hotter, I have OCD and high temps really cause my OCD to kick it. So I figured I'd go with a Nvidia card instead, but I'm not sure.

AMD had a problem in 2013 when they launched their hawai GPUs (i.e 290 and 290x) with very bad stock coolers.

Since then aftermarket models came out and those don't really run at high temperatures. For the 390 series it's never been an issue.

 

Anyway nothing wrong with Nvidia. Just buy the best GPU you can afford regardless of whether it is Nvidia or AMD.

[DarkSmith2]

A 970 usually runs over 70C. Mine runs 74C in the summer, 72C in the winter on the normal fan profile which turns them to 70% at 70C. I can get it down to 58C at full load now in the summer if I turn my fans up to 80%, but it sounds like a jet engine.

My Gigabyte GTX970 G1 runs at: 

58°C Full Load. 65/66°C when overclocked to 1600/8000.

50-54°C while gaming.

 

My fans spin about the same Ratio. 

00-49°C -> 0% fanspeed

50-59°C -> 50% fanspeed

60-69°C -> 60% fanspeed

70°-79C -> 70%-79% fanspeed

 

My card havent seen 70°C or higher, ever.

[gilang01]

A 970 usually runs over 70C. Mine runs 74C in the summer, 72C in the winter on the normal fan profile which turns them to 70% at 70C. I can get it down to 58C at full load now in the summer if I turn my fans up to 80%, but it sounds like a jet engine.

mine runs at 66C max. either you live in a place hotter than mine, or your case lacks airflow

[nfank]

Get 970 if that will help your "peace of mind" otherwise both are fine

[don_svetlio]

My 280 runs at 69*C on the core (hue hue) and 72*C on the VRM max under full load for 10-15 minuts with Unigine and fans at 37%- I have reverse airflow meaning it's bad (2 exhaust in the front force the air to get reused quite a bit) and 1 intake on the back. IIRC, my GPU is designed to run @ 77-80*C non-stop so yeah. Everything under 85*C is fine for the core and under 100*C for the VRMs (Nvidia has no sensor there).

[SteveGrabowski0]

mine runs at 66C max. either you live in a place hotter than mine, or your case lacks airflow

 

It runs the same temperature with the side panel off as it does on with the default fan profile. This is with an extra 15mV to make it stable at 1418 MHz boost.

 

 

EDIT: I'll be damned, this is strange. Yesterday was literally the first time I have ever touched the fan profile in the 7 months I have had the card, since I wanted to see if I could get any higher overclock by just turning the fans up to 80% the whole time (I couldn't). Then I just turned it back to running the default fan profile in Afterburner. Apparently the Afterburner default is different from the one the card shipped with set, because I just ran Valley (something that got me to 72C very quick even in winter with the side panel of the case off) and it topped out at 56C, Firestrike at 58C. 

[Nizo_GTO]

R9 390 not even a second thought lol