Asus R9 290 GPU - My Results

I'll have to nab that one then. Going to run to a few stores this morning and hopefully get a little time this afternoon.

Well ran the HWBOT Heaven test on extreme.

http://hwbot.org/submission/2601371...treme_preset_radeon_r9_290_3085.87_dx11_marks
Good for 38th place on the R9 290 board...
X 3085.874 ran at 1075/1300Mhz no voltage increase.
Max temp was 76C Core / 76C VRM1 / 66C VRM2

Playing with it more.

Disable Tesselation to dramatically improve that score.

Using the benchmark approved version

Though I seem to be at a limit right in this area for at least stock voltages. Still playing around with it but seems basically the end of the road til I up the voltage. The ram is a drag sadly. 1300Mhz seems to be the stable spot with it :/ Oh well. Seems sad since my 7950 could do 1500Mhz on ram.

Using the benchmark approved version

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I have no idea what that means, LOL! At hwbot, we disable tessellation for the highest score.

Elpida IC's were notably poor overclockers compared to Hynix and Samsung. I can't say I am surprised in the least.

EarthDog said:

I have no idea what that means, LOL! At hwbot, we disable tessellation for the highest score.

Elpida IC's were notably poor overclockers compared to Hynix and Samsung. I can't say I am surprised in the least.

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I was using the HWBOT exe file for benching tests. So it had tessellation and all that sorta fun stuff on it.

From the ram guess its a shame. I know it doesn't add much performance overall but can't say it doesn't add any. I can live with it

Finally got a chance to play a game with the card. Star Citizen. Mind you for me before it ran ok. Hanger area was a bear, but now I know why it chews up just over 3GB of memory for me. Now flying is great now getting 40-60FPS before it would dip into the 20's easily.

Love the card Game play temps around 73-75C @ 22C ambient. 1075/1300 clock.

Bummer on the memory chips ...

Sounds like it is giving you the FPS you were looking for.

Temps are not to bad, what type of ambient conditions are you in ?

Witchdoctor said:

Bummer on the memory chips ...

Sounds like it is giving you the FPS you were looking for.

Temps are not to bad, what type of ambient conditions are you in ?

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Yeah chips are eeh.. Oh well win some loose some. Who knows might upgrade quick to the next gen depending.

Definatly giving good FPS at least @ 1920x1200. Really can't wait til I get the 1440p screen, but it will be 2 months right now unless I hit it good at the casino next weekend haha.

Temps yeah figure it was decent. Not bad for inside a cabinet with just the front door open. I'll have to post a picture of it to get you an idea of where it sits here in the next day or two. Ambient is around 20-24C (mostly 22C) with 40-55% humidity. Give or take on that as its a basement and depending if I have the de-humidifier on.

Have you seen CPU temps go up with the heat that beast puts off ?

Witchdoctor said:

Have you seen CPU temps go up with the heat that beast puts off ?

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Yes, about 2-3C ingames that I've seen. Idle they have cone up as well with the the door closed (again when I get a chance to take a pic and upload it, it will make sense). About the same 2-3C as well there.

Though really it doesn't bother me at all. In most games I was rarely breaking 60C on my CPU. Not bad for a 3 year old mount haha. Wish I could go higher on my OC because I got temp room, just that I'm right at that voltage limit of question of going higher.

Anyways hope to get some voltage OCing in and dial this in better this evening. I haven't found much here, but what seems to be the overvoltage people use on the Core to get more out of it? Seems like I have room to breath especially if I play with the fan profile some. Got another 25% or so headroom with that

Oh one thing to add into the voltage. Looks like my core voltage is 1.1V and dips to 1.05-1.07V that I can tell under load. if that gives anyone a baseline when its under load. I'm seeing a lot of 1.25-1.35V's so in that case I think its really good for hitting these temps and speeds.

They put off a lot of heat for sure but sounds managable. Sounds like the DCII cooler is working well too at those load voltages

Shame that sticker is right on one of the screws, Thinking a high quality TIM would reap you a few degree's

However I guess no need if the card is meeting or exceeding to expectations