Amd r9 280x

[connrad96]

Hey guys couple of questions, so I have a sapphire vapor X r9 280x temps are fine at the moment it gets noisy but I would like to know is it worth overclocking.

I can't water cool I'm not comfortable doing it and is too expensive but for the temp increase is it worth while.

If so what overclock is pretty much "guaranteed" I know it will vary from chip to chip and not 100% to work I'm very inexperienced with this and tried overclocking before and just couldn't make it stable.

Many thanks guys

[HelplmChoking]

2 minutes ago, connrad96 said:

Hey guys couple of questions, so I have a sapphire vapor X r9 280x temps are fine at the moment it gets noisy but I would like to know is it worth overclocking.

I can't water cool I'm not comfortable doing it and is too expensive but for the temp increase is it worth while.

If so what overclock is pretty much "guaranteed" I know it will vary from chip to chip and not 100% to work I'm very inexperienced with this and tried overclocking before and just couldn't make it stable.

Many thanks guys

There is never a guaranteed OC, as you say. I'd suggest putting the power limit all the way up in Afterburner, then turn up the clock speed until it stops being stable.

[connrad96]

1 minute ago, Rangaman42 said:

There is never a guaranteed OC, as you say. I'd suggest putting the power limit all the way up in Afterburner, then turn up the clock speed until it stops being stable.

Okay and what would I test to make sure it's stable and how long for etc and thank you for the reply

[MalaySausage]

well i got my XFX 280x to 1202 

[HelplmChoking]

4 minutes ago, connrad96 said:

Okay and what would I test to make sure it's stable and how long for etc and thank you for the reply

You could either try some sort of stress test like AIDA64, or just game for a while  Try getting the core to about 1200, and the memory around 1450.

[connrad96]

3 minutes ago, Rangaman42 said:

You could either try some sort of stress test like AIDA64, or just game for a while  Try getting the core to about 1200, and the memory around 1450.

Okay that's great thank you and temps is it about 80℃ Max? And if it's unstable should I drop it back about 50mhz at a time?

[LynxThe1st]

11 minutes ago, connrad96 said:

thank you for the reply

so kind and friendly

Okay that's great thank you

[connrad96]

 

1 minute ago, LynxThe1st said:

so kind and friendly

Manners don't cost anything haha

[HelplmChoking]

49 minutes ago, connrad96 said:

Okay that's great thank you and temps is it about 80℃ Max? And if it's unstable should I drop it back about 50mhz at a time?

No problem  yup pretty much. It'll throttle around 95C, so try and keep it around 85C if you can.