R9-290X Water Cooled Overclocking UPDATE

[godsarmy]

 

 

Oc gtx690

 

Nice set up btw

[BookerDeWitt]

 

My Titan with a Valley run.

Well it actually doesn't

 

7xxx fared rather well on Valley/Heaven

Unigine unquestionably favors Nvidia.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/10/24/amd-radeon-r9-290x-4gb-review/10

 

[matin94]

 

My Titan with a Valley run.

thanks now i can compare

[Face2Face]

For some reason the R9 series cards do not perform well in Valley. I mean my heavily overclocked 7950 hit 52.6 fps with the same settings with no tweaks. 3Dmark is another story though.... 

[VSG]

Personally I am happy they went with the cheap stock cooler which potentially reduced the msrp since I was going to watercool anyway.

[Spannerhands]

Done an update edited first page...

[digitalnav]

Only if GFX cards ran at 40c on air haha.

[solarflare]

Personally I am happy they went with the cheap stock cooler which potentially reduced the msrp since I was going to watercool anyway.

 

Vsg is right though people forget that if your going with air cooled solutions then you really should be using aftermarket solutions such as the DCu2 and the wind-force 3 type coolers anyways. 

 

Reference coolers should be looked at as a cheap solution for someone on budget or a cooler to be replaced with a water-block or much better 3rd party cooler by now. 

 

I'll take waiting a few weeks for a non reference cooler if i'm staying air or paying less for a junky reference cooler if i'm going water-block route anyways over paying inflated prices regardless for a reference cooler or basically the same prices as non-reference coolers. 

[Physc]

Those temps are really good o-o;

[TheMissxu]

Unigine's tessellation favors Nvidia big time.

[The Benjamins]

I have my 290x at 1250 core clock and 1600 mem clock right now.

[solarflare]

Most bench with tessellation off with the AMD cards to be honest. 

 

and really to be fair tessellation doesn't show any visual improvements past a certain point but it does make things slow down considerable. 

 

of course nvidia uses adaptive tessellation so we really do not know how much of it is being run during these tests if any at all. 

[FernandoTeixeira]

For some reason the R9 series cards do not perform well in Valley. I mean my heavily overclocked 7950 hit 52.6 fps with the same settings with no tweaks. 3Dmark is another story though.... 

 

wow... my 7970 at 1180 is getting around 49fps  ;/

[xAcid9]

wow... my 7970 at 1180 is getting around 49fps  ;/

 

His 7950 hit 1300+ =\

[FernandoTeixeira]

His 7950 hit 1300+ =\

wow...  it's  what we may call luck haha

 

well I guess I could try 1200+ but I'm so happy with my temps that I don't really want change my oc =D

[pravarth]

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

 

 

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

 

What's TMPIN2 reading 128C?

[EChondo]

What's TMPIN2 reading 128C?

Software bug, disregard.

[kache]

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

 

 

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

Ok, how do I get that? Where to buy?

[Npc_Hydra3]

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

 

 

 

 

Wow. My GTX 770 is only 3FPS behind I get 50.8

[LimpCurve]

Goes to show how shit the reference cooler is.

 

=

Even though it's shit, it still look badass! :3

[warmmilk]

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

 

 

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

 

I have more rad space than that (by a hair and a half) and my 780 runs hotter... and here I thought the 780 is supposed to be a cooler running card... (might have something to do with the gpu block though...)