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R9-290X Water Cooled Overclocking UPDATE

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Fitted My EK waterblock, silence once again...

 

EDIT & UPDATE

 

After doing some more research I have discovered the R9-290X will throttle because when the VRM's get hot, so i changed the TIM to JP0P660 on the MEM & VRM's with some interesting results...

 

Standard UBER Mode

OLD TIM 2260

NEW TIM 2445

 

8.1 % Improvement 

 

OC Same Settings as before...

OLD TIM 2455

NEW TIM 2539

 

3.4% Improvement 

 

UBER Mode Vs Overclocked Vs Stardard & now also EK TIM Vs JP-P600 & MX4

 

 

Standard Under Mode

1000MHz / 1250 MHz

 

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Same settings now with new JunPlus TIM JP-P600

 

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1150MHz / 1425 MHz

 

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Same OC settings now with new JunPlus TIM JP-P600

 

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However the good news is my rig is once again totally silent and still showing some awesome temps...

 

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The R9 290X is Idling at 29c And now maxing out at 39c slightly better than 95c LOL

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Wow those temps are good.

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Did you overvolt the card?

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Did you overvolt the card?

They have changed the oc utility, but I increased the power but got to a stage where it made no difference to stability.

OC settings

Power 20%

GPU 14%

MEN 13.5%

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well, that's mad, I rly thought that wasn't the load temps because of just how low it is O_O

the titan gets similar temps in a watercooling loop

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well, that's mad, I rly thought that wasn't the load temps because of just how low it is O_O

It need to be mad when your rad look like this.   :P

 

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They have changed the oc utility, but I increased the power but got to a stage where it made no difference to stability.

OC settings

Power 20%

GPU 14%

MEN 13.5%

Oh, what brand is your card? IIRC to unlock the voltage slider you need to flash it to Asus BIOS.

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It need to be mad when your rad look like this.   :P

 

I'm aware of the rad, still surprised though :0

 

the titan gets similar temps in a watercooling loop

 

'tis no titan, titan doesn't get that crappy temps on ref cooler (granted it is a better ref cooler)

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It need to be mad when your rad look like this. :P

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Oh, what brand is your card? IIRC to unlock the voltage slider you need to flash it to Asus BIOS.

I have the Asus card, but only used CCC to overclock.

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Thanks will have a play with that tomorrow....

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Goes to show how shit the reference cooler is.

All air cooling is pretty much shit compared to a full-cover block which will easily cut the GPU temperatures in half. That's pretty much the only reason why I got into watercooling in the first place, that old 4870 blower was god awful to listen to.

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My Titan with a Valley run.

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My Titan with a Valley run.

Valley generally favours NVIDIA cards

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Valley generally favours NVIDIA cards

 

Well it actually doesn't

 

7xxx fared rather well on Valley/Heaven

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Valley generally favours NVIDIA cards

yeah you really can't compare direct performance between the two vendors; it is better suited to compare between the cards from the same vendor.

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This goes to show the difference between how much effort AMD puts into their GPU's and how much effort Nvidia puts into their's. Just the work Nvidia put into the stock 690/Titan/780 coolers put's AMD's entire catalog  to shame. Someone, I don't remember who, posted a link to an article and video about it awhile ago and it was amazing.

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This goes to show the difference between how much effort AMD puts into their GPUs and how much effort Nvidia puts into their coolers.

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This goes to show the difference between how much effort AMD puts into their GPUs and how much effort Nvidia puts into their coolers.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/69115-quadfire-r9-290x-breaks-firestrike-world-record/

 

Well if you want to go for a world record then LN cooling is your only option regardless of the manufacturer and quality of the standard cooling solution...

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Jesus, AMD really could have done a better job with that stock cooler!

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Well it actually doesn't

 

7xxx fared rather well on Valley/Heaven

Every single benchmark Elric ran, Valley/Heaven NVidia trumped AMD By sometimes over 100%.

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