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Sapphire Tri-X 290 Overclock Data

Impressive is the fan noise at high speed, there's pretty much none compared to other cards i would imagine, those triple fans are amazing for cooling/dBa.
 
rtsurfer said:
Neither do Nvidia fans...

Kind of a bogus claim when we have one of our own members, IEC running his 290 Trixx at 1225 Mhz too..
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All bout that Nvidia GTX 290x.

Rocking my SLI GTX 290/x all day err day 😀

Valley isn't even close to being a high load.

Crysis 3 stable is bare minimum.

People's standards for stability these days is truly funny to watch.
 
dont worry mantle will fix this, on longer will you have cpu bottlenecking GPU and your GPU will be maxed in terms of utilisation in every game.
 
Communism said:
OCN suicide runs never fail to amuse.
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For me the important info/part of that thread is the voltage, fan speed and VRM temps when considering the Tri-X 290 to oc and where I'd be comfortable at per oc, temps and voltage. Which so far would put me (imo) at around 1100/1450 for gaming on a TRI-X290 if they come down in price in the next couple months when and if I consider a move to a AIB 290/780.

So I thought it was a good thread/post in that respect and had some good data, so thought it was worth sharing the info.

But I am also considering if I can get a GTX 770 in the next couple of months for around $200.00 or under on sale/rebate/sell games or used I might just go 770 SLI, I like dual GPU's (from running my CFX 7950's) so just might also end up going that route which would be for around next 12 months or so.
 
Fastx said:
For me the important info/part of that thread is the voltage, fan speed and VRM temps when considering the Tri-X 290 to oc and where I'd be comfortable at per oc, temps and voltage. Which so far would put me (imo) at around 1100/1450 for gaming on a TRI-X290 if they come down in price in the next couple months when and if I consider a move to a AIB 290/780.

So I thought it was a good thread/post in that respect and had some good data, so thought it was worth sharing the info.

But I am also considering if I can get a GTX 770 in the next couple of months for around $200.00 or under on sale/rebate/sell games or used I might just go 770 SLI, I like dual GPU's (from running my CFX 7950's) so just might also end up going that route which would be for around next 12 months or so.
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1100/1450 seems reasonable for most loads.
BTW, review is out for the Windforce.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_radeon_r9_290x_windforce_3x_oc_review,1.html

It's got tantalum caps and the VRM cooling is as good as I expected.

Looks like all the AIB cards so far are Elpida though, which is a shame.
 
So I just got my Tri-X 290 and was curious as to whether or not I could reproduce this kind of overclock. It looks like my card shipped with Hynix memory which is nice. At the exact same settings it seems I can run Valley pretty much indefinitely without issue. 1225/1600 1.4v. What do you guys consider to be a good test of overclock stability? I have 3DMark/Crysis 3, Battlefield4, etc. I'm not running the fan at 100% however, I have it lower at 75% and it seems to sit at around 74-75C.
 
SimianR said:
So I just got my Tri-X 290 and was curious as to whether or not I could reproduce this kind of overclock. It looks like my card shipped with Hynix memory which is nice. At the exact same settings it seems I can run Valley pretty much indefinitely without issue. 1225/1600 1.4v. What do you guys consider to be a good test of overclock stability? I have 3DMark/Crysis 3, Battlefield4, etc. I'm not running the fan at 100% however, I have it lower at 75% and it seems to sit at around 74-75C.
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Which program do i use to check memory manufacturer?
 
1.4v on air seems like a bad idea. 3DMark is good, looping is best, Tomb Raider is hard on my core OC, Crysis 3 and BF4 prolonged sessions. Basically just play games and adjust if you need to. Takes awhile to actually verify an OC for stability.
 
SimianR said:
So I just got my Tri-X 290 and was curious as to whether or not I could reproduce this kind of overclock. It looks like my card shipped with Hynix memory which is nice. At the exact same settings it seems I can run Valley pretty much indefinitely without issue. 1225/1600 1.4v. What do you guys consider to be a good test of overclock stability? I have 3DMark/Crysis 3, Battlefield4, etc. I'm not running the fan at 100% however, I have it lower at 75% and it seems to sit at around 74-75C.
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Hey that is decent clock and temps, if I end up with one of these cards I was planning on 1100-1150 for gaming if possible.

Crysis 3 is know to be tough on oc GPU's for stability so that would be one.
I'd be interested in BF4 also on stability.
I also be interested in VRM temps in these games and what voltage is needed to run stable in these two games at 1100 & 1150 plus temps.

So if you have the time or interest in part or any of the above to test would be cool.

TIA
 
Like BFT said 1.4v is high, I'd stay at 1.35 or under imo on the voltage to be safe, but its your card and decision.
 
If you decide to test per post #17 clocks I'd be more interested in 1100 than 1150 for now. I'd like to be able to see how this card performs/games in these games at 1100 first and make sure its stable there and what the voltage (1.2-1.25v?), temps are along with the fan setting percent.
 
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SimianR said:
So I just got my Tri-X 290 and was curious as to whether or not I could reproduce this kind of overclock. It looks like my card shipped with Hynix memory which is nice. At the exact same settings it seems I can run Valley pretty much indefinitely without issue. 1225/1600 1.4v. What do you guys consider to be a good test of overclock stability? I have 3DMark/Crysis 3, Battlefield4, etc. I'm not running the fan at 100% however, I have it lower at 75% and it seems to sit at around 74-75C.
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Did you try a lower voltage?
 
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Looks like only those TriX heatsinks let Hawaii chips to spread their wings.
 
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How accurate is MSI afterburner's onscreen display in reporting GPU voltage? I'm watching the GPU voltage during valley runs and the card is rarely ever jumping over 1.3v even though I have VDDC offset set to +200 and "force constant voltage" selected. Hey, not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.The VRM temps seem pretty good, VRM1 @ 75C and VRM2 @ 48C under load at these clocks. If I lower the card to something like +175mv I start to see some artifacts after 5-10 mins of testing/gaming at 1225, though I haven't tried lower clock rates (like 1200) yet. FastX when I get some time I'll try those clock rates out and report back. Did you want me to try a specific fan speed? Also did you have a specific memory speed in mind?
 
SimianR said:
How accurate is MSI afterburner's onscreen display in reporting GPU voltage? I'm watching the GPU voltage during valley runs and the card is rarely ever jumping over 1.3v even though I have VDDC offset set to +200 and "force constant voltage" selected. Hey, not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.The VRM temps seem pretty good, VRM1 @ 75C and VRM2 @ 48C under load at these clocks. If I lower the card to something like +175mv I start to see some artifacts after 5-10 mins of testing/gaming at 1225, though I haven't tried lower clock rates (like 1200) yet. FastX when I get some time I'll try those clock rates out and report back. Did you want me to try a specific fan speed? Also did you have a specific memory speed in mind?
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No hurry, 70% fan would be good, 1125 GPU clock, for now keep the memory at stock settings, the voltage I am unsure of but hoping it can go 1125 somewhere between 1.2 and 1.3 max.

Thanks
+rep
 
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