r9 280 by MSI. fresh out of the box, all the latest drivers installed, everything good to go. boot up Battlefield 4. SpeedFan has it clocked at 49C without overclocking it, and it sustained that temp with about an hour of playtime. is this something i should be concerned with, or is it normal?
49C is a fine temperature, especially for a 280.
Yeah really good considering my R9 270 usually gets around 70 degrees while gaming.
Edit: its also a MSI gaming.
Anything below 70C is great for a GPU. 80C and above is when you need to start to worry.
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^ What he said. XD
Sounds like an awesome temp that if anything is better than average. Heavy stress tests would easily get my 280X's to 80C+. Hence my water cooling which brings me to a max of 45C. If you want to know the hottest possible temps for your card run a stress test (I like Unigine Valley), and see what you get. During a heavy test like that it would be normal to see temps around 80C. Remember that normal gaming will never get your GPU as hot as stress tests, so as long as you aren't seeing high 80s or above on a stress test you'll be just fine on temps.
Pretty awesome temps for aircooling 280.
Only thing I'd maybe be worried about at that low of a temp would be whether it's getting accurate temp readings. I don't know what kind of fan settings, case, room temp, etc. you have, but if BF4 was on reasonable settings at 1080 I'm kind of surprised at that temp. Granted I don't own a 280, so maybe they run cooler than I'd think.
That's what I'm thinking as well. I might check readings from at least Catalyst Control Center or better yet from MSI Afterburner.
Be concerned if you ever see anything close to 80C, and yeah its normal to have about 50-60c and in some cases 70c while gaming.
My 280X (XFX) idles at about 50c and will go to about 60-almost 70 in GPU intensive games, it is a pretty high power GPU that does pull in monstrous amounts of current. GPU-Z has a nice sensor tab where you can get reasonably detailed information on what your GPU is doing, try installing it sometime and look at the current and GPU load while your gaming.
AMD has had this hard on for designing integrated circuits that can in a heartbeat go from sipping power to glugging that stuff down and not die in the process, as an electronic engineering student I can appreciate the engineering required to pull that off.
hey guys, thanks for all the replies. i downloaded MSI's afterburner software and started tinkering with the clock and memory speeds. with both memory and clock speeds jacked all the way (and the fan speed, obviously) i was able to get a stable 45C running Battlefield at 1080 with max settings. Average FPS was around 55. thank you all for the feedback. Very happy with this card :D
Very good temps for a 280