Hi guys I am new I just bought a new PC but my Gigabyte R9 280x runs at 97C while playing and on Valley Benchmark. I send a message to gigabyte.
full pc
i5 4670k
z97x sli
2x4 hyperfury
gb r9 280x
corsair tx 750
cm 690 ii advanced b&w
Hmmmm......Have you tried any type of fan control utility such as Afterburner or anything similar? How is the airflow in your case? Fan configuration also plays a key roll in how the airflow passes through your case. It would also possibly be a defective card. I have my intakes set up from the side, bottom and front. My exhaust is at the top and rear of my case. I have the CM StormTrooper. Also, keep an eye on your fan speed of the card because if it's not speeding up under loads, that could be causing it to run so hot.
Hope this helps!
I used AMD and MSI AB to only check temperatures, they both show the same.
airflow I don't think so Because It happens with an open case
I installed everything (OS, Drivers) ran ValleyBenchmark and I saw my GPU temp at 99C
then I played BF3 and same 89C Downloaded talk to Amd and they said reinstall drivers, run optimize game, now my GPU is around 60C with 44FPS...
it stayed above 60 all the time when at 90C
You could take some compressed air and clean out the heatsink. You can also try repasting the GPU and messing around with the fan curve.
if you can make a custom fan curve to keep those fans ramped up during use should help it out seeing as it's staying cool at lower fps's. Or bite the bullet and get a water cooling system for the gpu.
if its new gpu there might be faulty chip/cooling not fully connecting heat-sink and your hot plate - i would rma it while you can. Else You might want to move it further away from cpu (i assume you have heatsink+fan on cpu)
Also try directing air in your case - you want air to come from front and bottom of the case and exiting through the back or top. Remember basic physics - hot air is lighter - will be easier to push it up. (even so people might say its small difference won't change temps at all) Once you do it as should you'll see in a difference small but still some...
It is a new GPU my problem is it's the second one I'd have to return the first one was a Sapphire R9 280X so they gave me the GB and now this... i should have gone with gtx 770
You got a bad batch of card brah. If its fans are running 100% and, or, with side panel open, and you're getting 90°C there's a problem with the chip probably. I had a similar case with my 1st RMA PowerColor R9 290x PCS+. I replaced the stock thermal paste with IC Diamond to see if it would fix the 95°C temperature even though the fans where at 100%, but it didn't fix the crazy temps so there was something wrong with the chip that made it difficult to transfer heat to the base copper plate, either that, or the new custom bios that came with it had an over specified thermal power limit recommend by AMD.
My 2nd RMA replacement from PowerColor no longer throttles and stays 1050mhz at a max 78°C when at 100% load, and it comes with a different Bios.
I suggest before you RMA that you replace the thermal paste to see if that's the problem. If not, it could be a hardware or Bios problem. Save your bios from your both dual switches and take a screenshot of it using GPU-Z. So, when your replacement, or, fixed card arrive you can compare the bioses as well to deduce if it was a hardware or bios issue.
Is it the 3-fan Gigabyte windforce card, or the reference card with the blower-style cooler? Because those reference coolers are horrible.
Also make sure you have good air flow through your case (in the front, out the back/top).
Can you tell me the fan configuration inside the case of the PC you bought? I have a HD 7970 which is basically R9 280x and it doesn't even touch 80°C even when OC'd to 1.1ghz core and 6600mhz memory.
There's no such thing as a reference R9 280x, every R9 280x on the market is made with custom PCB and cooler.
If I remember correctly from when I was looking a 280x, the gigabyte ones were having this issue and it was a problem where 4/5 cards would have to be rma'd. Don't know if that's still an issue though.
It has 3 fans.
1 intake in the front. 140mm
2 exhaust. One on the back and the other on the top (120mm/140mm)
It is a gigabyte, not the reference to be exactly.
this one: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4845#ov.
after using AMD tool (AMD cathalyst>optimize game) it stays around 60C but not hitting 60FPS as it used to...
also Gigabyte answered and said they have 3rd party guarantee. And nothing else...
You need more intake. At least one more fan. What's your case model?
The cooler itself is not the problem, it's probably in the PCB and the components in it that's the source of the problem, otherwise, bios. If 3 80mm fans can cool my R9 290x below 80°C, it should cool a R9 280x even better.
Does 3rd party guarantee mean you have to go through the PC builders to replace the card it in?
Well you might be able to slap an aio on it. Might run alot cooler
It means I have to argue a lot.
they will try to say things like... It works it shows display and everything. it's your software. And stuff like that
I am not from USA bit Gb has tech support here I will call them and try to fix this, but my only demanding game is BF3 I want to try on BF4 and Watch dogs to see the temperatures :/ I'm a sad joker
There's free to play games on like Warframe, Hawken, and Team Fortress 2 if you want to do some more real world application test as oppose to synthetic benchmark softwares.
True. I was thinking of the 290s.