r9 390 R9 390 running at 94C

[badengill]

Could someone let me know if this is okay, most games i run on my 390 go to about 70-80C but Ive installed Star Wars Battlefront today and while playing temps are hitting 94C and staying there.

 

Is this temperature okay for this card? Or is there a problem somewhere. Btw temps taken from MSI Afterburner

 

Overclocked to

Core Clock: 1150mhz

Mem Clock: 1550mhz

 

Thanks!

[Goldensapling]

What card do you have? (Manufacturer) 

[badengill]

The MSI Twin frozr edition. Sorry i should have included that  haha

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, badengill said:

Could someone let me know if this is okay, most games i run on my 390 go to about 70-80C but Ive installed Star Wars Battlefront today and while playing temps are hitting 94C and staying there.

 

Is this temperature okay for this card? Or is there a problem somewhere. Btw temps taken from MSI Afterburner

 

Overclocked to

Core Clock: 1150mhz

Mem Clock: 1550mhz

 

Thanks!

thats a bit high and you should really be concerned, perhaps your case's airflow is insufficient

[Sir Asvald]

5 minutes ago, badengill said:

The MSI Twin frozr edition. Sorry i should have included that  haha

You should set up a fan curve using MSI afterburner.

[badengill]

Yeah ive never had a card surpass 90C before so I was a bit surprised.

Ive got 2 fans up front for intake and 2 fans mounted to a Corsair H100i at the top in pull config, and 1 exhaust at the back and one on the side of the case.

 

Star Wars Battlefront is the only game that brings my temp up to 94C.

[FilipSebik]

Its not R9 390 but an volcano. Try to set up fan curve or open the case if you don't have adequate airflow for that card or go at stock clocks

[Enderman]

replace the thermal paste or RMA it

or maybe your case airflow sucks

[badengill]

Ill try setting a fan curve, im sure I already done it but ill check. Thanks guys

[afyeung]

The stock fan curve will run at 100% at 94c which is the throttling point for your card. I keep on telling people not to get the MSI one because I've had a poor experience with it myself, but people just look at benchmarks smh. 

[Atmos]

7 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

thats a bit high and you should really be concerned, perhaps your case's airflow is insufficient

Considering that even the shitty reference card is designed to run at that temp, it won't damage the card at all,

but... you will get better performance if the temps aren't at thermal limit, so cooler is still always better.

[calieburger]

Hey bud, I'll tell you what I did.

I replaced the thermal compound be very careful with that process be sure to clean it properly! Just keep in mind that a new application of thermal past needs time before it is optimal. Now with the fan curve I would suggest let the card idle at 34% fan speed and steadily increase till 60 C then from there create a straight line towards 90% at 90 c. That is the fan curve I use and I really go over 80 and I own the gigabyte G1 version with let's me honest a crap cooler. So that has made a huge improvement on my setup. 

Hope this helps 

[l_zheng101]

It not sure what standard temps of the R9 390 (I should though because I own one) but I do know that the R9 390 is a hot card in general.

[badengill]

I just adjusted my fan curves and have been playing Battlefront for about 10 mins and now my max temp is 83C so it definately made a difference. Thanks for that, I did have it set before but forgot to do it the other week when I did a reinstall of Windows 10

 

I was thinking about changing the stock thermal paste but MSI have got a warranty sticker over one of the screws so I don't want to void my warranty yet as the card is only a few months old.

[MACGYVR]

22 minutes ago, badengill said:

The MSI Twin frozr edition. Sorry i should have included that  haha

me too, aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnd I can say only, thats amd for you lol. great card hot temps... and loud mine runs around 60 to 70 degrees celcius though

[Sir Asvald]

4 minutes ago, badengill said:

I just adjusted my fan curves and have been playing Battlefront for about 10 mins and now my max temp is 83C so it definately made a difference. Thanks for that, I did have it set before but forgot to do it the other week when I did a reinstall of Windows 10

 

I was thinking about changing the stock thermal paste but MSI have got a warranty sticker over one of the screws so I don't want to void my warranty yet as the card is only a few months old.

That's good!  Max Temp on my GPU is 73C at 50%

[badengill]

Yeah it is a great card but as you said is quite hot, when I decide in the future to get a 4K monitor and get a second card, im probably going to watercool them.