Graphics Card Exceeding Temperature Threshold

[Unformedbobbie]

I'm having an issue with my AMD MSI R9 290X graphics card. A while back I was having problems with the graphics card overheating and shutting down my pc. I updated the graphics drivers and removed a program which i believed to be causing an issue with it which was the wallpaper engine program from steam. At the time I ran a stress test and it was capping at around 90-95 degrees without shutting off the pc. I ran this test for around 30mins.  A couple of months later and it just happened again. The current graphics driver I have installed is version 17.7.2 with the optional driver 17.8.2 available. 

 

Any help or advice with this would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you

[Gungpae]

At what temperatures?

[Unformedbobbie]

The stress test I did after the shut down was hovering between 94-95 degrees, which I ran for around 10mins.

[Gungpae]

2 minutes ago, Unformedbobbie said:

The stress test I did after the shut down was hovering between 94-95 degrees, which I ran for around 10mins.

I hear that these 290x cards hit very high temps (somewhere around 90-100 when gaming/loaded) Have you tried reapplying thermal compound on your GPU?

[Unformedbobbie]

nope, as i don't have any thermal compound. Would you say that is the most likely of situations?

 

Currently, the temperature of the card is between 60-65 degrees. Thats with just chrome, msi afterburner and discord open.

[Kc7vwc]

It's the nature of this gpu. My msi R9 390 (basically same chip as you) runs 75-93°c, depending on the game. That's also inside an Air540 chassis with 3 intake fans at 1300rpm.

I've tried new MX-4 thermal paste (twice!) on it & haven't gotten any lower temps. 

The best option I've tried is fps caps. In the Radeon drivers, I have Power Efficiency turned on, and Frate Rate Limiter set to 144 (for my Asus 144hz panel). 

I leave vsync off, but try to set a similar cap in-game as well. 

This usually keeps me in the low 80°s, but I'll still see 90° spikes. 

Sadly, either wait for winter & enjoy the heater, or look to Nv Pascal for it's efficiency. 

[Unformedbobbie]

There is no option for Power Efficiency on my Radeon Settings window, there is an option called chill, is this perhaps the same as power efficiency? I set the frame rate limiter to 60fps (as my monitor is 60hz) and i've turned of v-sync.

[Cookybiscuit]

290X runs very hot, but unless you've got some mix of low fan-speed, atrocious case airflow a high ambient it shouldn't run quite that hot. What 'stress test' are you using?

[Unformedbobbie]

msi afterburner is the program i used for testing