Asus r9 290 DirectCu 2 OC temps

[mar4356]

Before I return this baby wanted to get some advice. My card is running at about 93-94 degrees C under full load in BF4. Every review I have seen is that the card should be around 70-80 degrees C.

Does anyone have experience with this card. Are you seeing the same temps? My case has good cooling btw

 

[JBT]

I had the same experience until I UNINSTALLED the Asus Overclocking utility. It sets vddc to 1250-1350 with that thing installed, and wouldn't OC for beans.

When I uninstall it vddc is around 1109 and I can actually OC them core and memory. It now mines at 79C load instead of 94C...

 

[mar4356]

I only installed the asus gpu tweak app but havent touched any of the values. I will try that and see what happens. Any recommendations on what I can use just to monitor the temp?

 

[mar4356]

Gave that a shot and no dice. In uber mode the gpu temp is still at 93-94c. Maybe a defective card\cooler...not sure

 

[Attic]

Try to confirm volts in afterburner or GPU-z or directly.


The card shouldn't run that hot, but i'd recommend doing a strict evaluation of airflow in your case.

I've got a 290x in a Home Theater PC and that's within a poor but manageable stand. The card runs hotter than i've seen in reviews, but in open air setting it runs in line with reviews and users.

 

[p_monks33]

Check the mounting of the cooler on your card. My 780 dc2 wasn't even touching the GPU, I had to screw the standoffs in about an eighth of an inch. Once I did and the cooler contacted the card, temps went from high 80's to low 60's

 

[JBT]

Is it a 290 or a 290x? There is NO Uber mode on the 290's.The BIOS switch is for UEFI (or what ever its called)or non, I use TechPower up GPU-Z to check the voltage.

 

[Silverforce11]

This seems to be a common occurrence, other users in the mining thread have the same.. as did [H] with their sample. It's a dud, but one that is more likely to happen due to ASUS's choice to put a heatpipe cooler designed for GK110 that has 2 pipes barely functional on the smaller Hawaii GPU.

Add in variation in TIM application, and mounting, it would exacerbate the non-optimal cooler. Rather than wasting time to troubleshoot, just RMA it.

 

[JBT]

They all need to completely uninstall that PoS Asus OC tool and reboot. Like I said mine did the same thing. I couldn't OC the memory for mining till I removed it as well.

As soon as I removed it the voltage dropped to decent levels, and OCing it was a breeze for the memory. Its mining away, and playing BF4 great at 1000 core, 1500 memory. Core runs fine at 1050 but mining performance goes down. Getting 878 kh/s on mine now, when previously it would start throttling down to 650-700 kh/s.

 

[Kenmitch]

What happens if you crank up the fan speed or use a custom curve?

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I'm not sure why everyone hates the ASUS GPU Tweak utility. I can undervolt my R9 280x Direct CU II's, under/overclock them, set manual fan speeds or custom fan profiles and it has given me zero problems. I use it to setup my cards for mining and gaming, and it works great.

My first strategy would be to undervolt the card/make a custom fan profile or just set the fan to a static setting and see how it affects your temps.

 

[JBT]

Meh, doesn't matter to me, it runs great with out it and its one less piece of software I need running. It also seems to get confused with the 7850 I have mining in my rig as well. I know all my "problems" with heat and the lack of overclocking were resolved by removing it. I don't under stand why it would run at 1250 vddc with default settings when it clearly wasn't needed.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I can see it having a problem with different card models in the same computer, it might try to sync settings between them. I decided not to add a 270x because I didn't want to risk having the software not work.

 

[mar4356]

I removed the fan shroud and everything looks secure. When I crank the fan speed up to 100% the temp will go down to around 89 which is still WAY above any of the benchmarks for temps I have seen on other sites.

I have very good airflow but just as a test I removed the side of my case and no change in temps. Also uninstalled GPU tweak and same issue. At this time I am just going to rma for another asus card and see if that one works out any better?

Thanks for the advice guys

 

[mar4356]

So while I am waiting for my RMA I ahd a question about the VVDC which I assume is the memory voltage. If I lower it to 1109 as suggested by JBT will that decrease the performance FPS wise?

And if that fixes the temp issue I should be able to sue them for 1 million dollars for pain and suffering