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Is this about right for a 290x?

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Im going to get a 290x from a guy on craigslist and he sent me this benchmark. And to anybody with a reference card how loud is the cooler at 60%?

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Im going to get a 290x from a guy on craigslist and he sent me this benchmark. And to anybody with a reference card how loud is the cooler at 60%?

Reference 290x is shit. Super loud super hot. He probably did that benchmark at 100% fan speed.

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Reference 290x is shit. Super loud super hot. He probably did that benchmark at 100% fan speed.

lap the cooler and use thermal grizzly, isnt that bad

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That pic you have at 60% still seems like non-reference.

Reference 290x's @ 60% fan speed still hit towards 94*c am I right?

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That pic you have at 60% still seems like non-reference.

Reference 290x's @ 60% fan speed still hit towards 94*c am I right?

No. 60% fan speed at 85 is about right. I was mainly wondering if the benchmark score was fine

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Reference 290x is shit. Super loud super hot. He probably did that benchmark at 100% fan speed.

It was at 60%. And I can replace the cooler

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No. 60% fan speed at 85 is about right. I was mainly wondering if the benchmark score was fine

Seems about right, my aftermarket 290x @ 1040Mhz was around 60-61fps.

And yeah, Reference 290's are easy to watercool... beyond easy. (Just depends if its worth the cost)

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Seems about right, my aftermarket 290x @ 1040Mhz was around 60-61fps.

And yeah, Reference 290's are easy to watercool... beyond easy. (Just depends if its worth the cost)

At what settings? And honestly I don't want to spend too much to cool the card because I already am paying $175 for it

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At what settings? And honestly I don't want to spend too much to cool the card because I already am paying $175 for it

Honestly I cannot remember, this was over a year ago.

Google a few 290x reviews, they would have used heaven @ 1440p in some of them surely.

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No. 60% fan speed at 85 is about right. I was mainly wondering if the benchmark score was fine

Bullshit that temp is not obtained at 60% fan speed. 55% fan speed is UBER mode btw. Everything hits 93-95C. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7457/the-radeon-r9-290x-review/19  https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Radeon-R9-290X-Performance-Analysis-522/page2

 

But how the hell can we know if that benchmark score is ok when it shows custom preset. Have him run 3dmark or something standard you can actually compare to. Besides most of the reviews of it are going to be massively out of date for the newer driver updates.

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