R9 290 Reference/AIO Cooled Temperature/Overclocking Settings
R9 290 Reference/AIO Cooled Temperature/Overclocking Settings
Hey everyone,
I’m checking if anyone has used an ID-Cooling AIO cooler on the reference model 290. I’ve noticed the temperatures tend to stay between 90 and 96°C during gaming or benchmarking. Recently, I purchased a Dual AIO Hunter Duet Cooler from ID-Cooling. The temps have been consistently in the 55-65°C range, except for "Enemy Front" where it climbs to 75-80°C. My GPU hits around 94°C when running "Enemy Front" without any FPS limits, and I see a max of 68°C in Unigine Heaven. Idle temps sit between 29-33°C.
I also experimented with overclocking the card by about 10MHz, but it caused black screens. After restarting, AMD reported instability and returned to default settings—something unusual given I believe the cards are quite overclockable. Anyone have similar experiences?
System details:
Monitor: Asus 27" VC279H 5ms IPS
Case: NZXT 410 Black
Case Cooling: 5 fans + 2 for radiator and Hunter Duet AIO Cooler – ID-Cooling
PSU: 750W EVGA SuperNova G2 80+ Gold
Motherboard: H97-Pro Gamer
CPU: i5 4590 3.3GHz turbo 3.7GHz with AIO Cooler
GPU: AMD R9 290 4GB Ref with AIO Cooler
RAM: G.Skill RipkawsX C9 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
SSD: Geil Zenith S3 120GB
HDD: 4TB WD Blue
HDD: 1TB WD Blue x2
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda Green
This piece and the accompanying video might appeal to your interests:
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-C...eon-R9-290
I owned two Asus R9 290x OC in CF, and I noticed the top card reached a peak of 68 degrees while the bottom card stayed around 65 degrees even during firmware updates. The 90-degree reading from the AIO seems too high.
Dragos Manea shared his experience with two Asus R9 290x OC in CF. He noted the top card reached a maximum of 68 degrees and the bottom card 65 degrees, even under furmark. The AIO's 90 degrees felt too high. Ooo, frosty.
HamBown81 shared his experience with ASUS R9 290x OC in CF. He noted the top card reached a maximum of 68 degrees and the bottom card 65 degrees even under heavy load, while 90 degrees was observed on the AIO. He mentioned that using frosty helped. He also compared his setup to another system where he used a kraken x41 with g10 cooling and a kraken x31 with g10, mounted on two MSI GTX 1080s. He emphasized focusing on VRM and chose the ASUS R9 290x DC 2 due to its VRM heatsink, similar to his MSI models which also had VRM and heatsinks.
I'm starting to wonder if I might have installed the pumps and fans incorrectly—I just rearranged them and now the temperatures are changing. Did you ever check your temperatures in Unigine Heaven? I'm seeing around 66-69°C for the GPU on max, while the CPU is at 29-36°C with idle temps near 35°C and the CPU itself at 29°C.
I'm starting to suspect I might have misconfigured all the pumps and fans, I just rearranged them and now the temperatures are different. Did Dragos ever check his temperatures using Unigine Heaven? I'm seeing around 66-69°C for the GPU at max, while the CPU is 29-36°C with idle temps at 35°C and 23°C. That's a big difference. Something definitely went wrong if that's all you changed! Those readings look great.
Set pump speed to maximum, identify the liquid cooler you're using—it includes a water temperature sensor. In valley temperatures rarely exceeded 55 degrees. Both radiators were in push position (exhaust), the CPU is cooled via water as well, and it's in exhaust mode. For me, the CPU tends to heat the surrounding air, with two 140mm fans pushing cool air in and one 120mm fan adding more cooling.