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R9 290x Overheating

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I've been having an issue with my XFX R9 290x black edition as its temperatures have been appalling as of late. When I first bought the card less than a week ago, the card was running at standard temps- 44 under idle and 74 under load. However, yesterday I noticed the card was running at around 85 degrees under load when playing Witcher 3, and today while playing GTA V, the temperatures spiked up to 95 degrees. Lately I've been getting 55 degrees idle temps and even running light games will cause the GPU to heat up to around 70-80 degrees.


I am using a small mid tower (Sharkoon MA-M1000) and I understand that having a non-reference style GPU will dissipate heat all over my case's interior, so I tried running games without the side panel. However, that clearly did not work. The ambient temperature is not that high either - I'd say around 20 degrees. I suspect the heat pocket at the bottom side of the GPU (around a 10 cm gap between the GPU and the case floor) has something to do with this.


I'd like to hear your opinion on what should I do. Am I forced to underclock or lower the voltage? Or will installing an additional intake fan help at all? Thanks in advance.


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Airflow is important when using high end components - could be that the interior is heating up if you can't exchange the air from the case.

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Do you think adding a side intake fan will reduce temps?

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Change thermal paste?

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im thinking thermal paste

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I've been having an issue with my XFX R9 290x black edition as its temperatures have been appalling as of late. When I first bought the card less than a week ago, the card was running at standard temps- 44 under idle and 74 under load. However, yesterday I noticed the card was running at around 85 degrees under load when playing Witcher 3, and today while playing GTA V, the temperatures spiked up to 95 degrees. Lately I've been getting 55 degrees idle temps and even running light games will cause the GPU to heat up to around 70-80 degrees.

I am using a small mid tower (Sharkoon MA-M1000) and I understand that having a non-reference style GPU will dissipate heat all over my case's interior, so I tried running games without the side panel. However, that clearly did not work. The ambient temperature is not that high either - I'd say around 20 degrees. I suspect the heat pocket at the bottom side of the GPU (around a 10 cm gap between the GPU and the case floor) has something to do with this.

I'd like to hear your opinion on what should I do. Am I forced to underclock or lower the voltage? Or will installing an additional intake fan help at all? Thanks in advance.

 

Redo the thermal paste. I have a 290 and it gets quite hot but with a good fan profile and new thermal paste it doesn't go above 87c overclocked. Hopefully you didn't pay too much for your xfx 290x, it's an older card and the vrm cooling was effectively nonexistent. VRM temps can really kill your card and limit any sort of overclocking whatsoever on a 290x. 

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Okay so I replaced the thermal paste but it apparently did not help at all. I think the issue lies either within the card or the case itself. The top part of the GPU feels really hot too, and the bottom side of the GPU is also relatively warm. Perhaps adding more airflow into the case might help?

 

I'm wondering how long this card will last if I game at this temperature several hours per day.

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try leave the side panel open, use a housefan to blow directly into the case. See the temps, if it drops down a lot; then its your chassis air flow problem. If not, then its your card's

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Make sure you have good intake and exhaust fans in your case. Have them running at high speed while gaming and see what temps you get. Make sure there's no dust build up on the intake vent. Yes, most definitely, adding an additional fan on the side panel should help your temps. I would install it as an exhaust for two reasons. 1) you want to keep the air moving through your case is the same general direction (front to back etc.) and 2) to remove the hot air being kicked off from the graphics card to avoid accumulating pockets of warm air inside the case. Again, try to keep the air flowing in the front and our the back/side. Fresh/cool air in, hot air out is key. You can try experimenting to see if having the side fan as intake or exhaust works best.

 

If it's still running hot, check your clocks and voltages using MSI afterburner or GPUz. Are you overclocking it at all?  

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Yeah I often game with the sidepanel open but it doesn't seem to help much. I'm actually planning to get either a small housefan or a side intake/exhaust fan.

 

On the other hand, I doubt dust buildup is a major issue because I bought the card last week and it was in decent condition - no dust or anything, and I built my PC around 2 months ago. 

 

I bought this card without the intention of overclocking because 1) I understand that my case is tiny and the airflow might not be optimal, so I probably would rarely get a chance to overclock it 2) I want this card to last as long as possible, probably for 2 years. I didn't really touch any of the sliders in MSI Afterburner.

 

Thanks for your support so far, guys :)

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I say change thermalpaste. just one thing to note, make sure that you clean the gpu properly cause I replaced the thermalpaste on my gpu's and then it was overheating. I didn't clean the gpu properly at first and now that I've done that it's running much cooler. About 10-15C to be exact

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OK so adding a side fan didn't help at all either. The problem must therefore lie within the graphics card itself. I'm going to return it.

 

Thanks for all your help!

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OK so adding a side fan didn't help at all either. The problem must therefore lie within the graphics card itself. I'm going to return it.

 

Thanks for all your help!

What revision is the GPU? Revision 0, 1 and 2 had a lot of issues with heat, 3 and 4 were okay.

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What revision is the GPU? Revision 0, 1 and 2 had a lot of issues with heat, 3 and 4 were okay.

How do I check?

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How do I check?

Box or the card itself - there should be somewhere saying "Rev. X"

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Box or the card itself - there should be somewhere saying "Rev. X"

Don't see anything that points out to revision. I see a version 1.1 under Made in China though.

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