Radeon R9 290x QUADFIRE (Hell yeah)

[Unoid]

It's fair to say that the one giant Rad is all you really need. those load temps are proof!

 

[OCGuy]

Interested in how the first action wasn't a benchmark to make sure performance is where it should be? Your rig has several potential position points of failure.

 

[guskline]

Water temp Idle : 27'C
Ambient in the room: 25.5'C
Ambient in the rig: 26.5'C

Water Temp during game: 31'C (stock cards)

Average GPU core temp on idle: 32 - 35'C
Average VRM temps on idle: 25-27'C

Average GPU core temp on load: 46'C
Average VRM temps on load: 38'C

With your rad setup I believe it! Shows the value of water cooling these cards. Impressive!

 

[KaRLiToS]

It's fair to say that the one giant Rad is all you really need. those load temps are proof!

This is not really true because I can tell you that these R9 290x heat much more than the HD 7970s.

Before the 290x, I had QuadFire 7970 overclocked 1240/1600 24/7 with the same watercooling setup but without the external radiator and without the external pump. The water temperature during load could jump to 34'C - 36'C and now I never see it exceed 32'C.

You cannot claim the proof you are saying because you are not comparing to anything.

Also, I gave the water and ambient temperature so the people calculate the Delta T. Its the Delta T that is important if you want to confirm if a watercooling setup is good.

Ambient = 25'C and water = 31'C... this mean Delta T = 6'C

Also, I know the external could be enough but it would probably give me a Delta T of 15'C (water at 41'C) and I don't want that.

I also want silence.

Interested in how the first action wasn't a benchmark to make sure performance is where it should be? Your rig has several potential position points of failure.

Can you name them for me please? It would greatly help me.

Because yesterday I was playing Battlefield 4 at 8044x1440 Ultra settings on a 64 players map and I was getting average of 70 fps. (On stock clocks on the cards).

This rig just had the 290x a day ago so I have many tests to come.

( I have a 1 month old new born boy here, time is harder to find)

 

[Kenmitch]

Because yesterday I was playing Battlefield 4 at 8044x1440 Ultra settings on a 64 players map and I was getting average of 70 fps. (On stock clocks on the cards). This rig just had the 290x a day ago so I have many tests to come. ( I have a 1 month old new born boy here, time is harder to find)

I'm thinking you built the rig for this purpose and would be the best way to get instant gratification.

Play 1st, bench later.

 

[KaRLiToS]

I'm thinking you built the rig for this purpose and would be the best way to get instant gratification.

Play 1st, bench later.

That is true.

I sold my Quad 7970 last May in order to sale it at a fair price and I was able to sell them with blocks for 2000$. Since then, I didn't play eyefinity and was only using a GTX 680 on single 1440p monitor.

I can tell you I missed eyefinity and yesterday was fun.

 

[NTMBK]

Performance should be very interesting! We all know that the 290X is thermally limited- with those sorts of temps it should be hitting max Boost clock non-stop. Impressive stuff.

 

[Kenmitch]

That is true.

I sold my Quad 7970 last May in order to sale it at a fair price and I was able to sell them with blocks for 2000$. Since then, I didn't play eyefinity and was only using a GTX 680 on single 1440p monitor.

I can tell you I missed eyefinity and yesterday was fun.

I would have done the same thing as it would be of the most interest to me. Benchmarking is more for tweaking overclocks anyways....That and e-peen I guess.

BF4 was pushing all 4 cards pretty good?

By the way your temps are insane!

 

[Tempered81]

What's the power consumption?

 

[ozzy702]

Can the 290X be undervolted or does it do that automatically with the new setup? I'd have to think with temps that low that the power consumption would be reduced greatly.

 

[AdamK47]

Waiting for benchmarks....

 

[ZGR]

I wonder what your VRAM usage is at 8044x1440 in games are?

 

[Piklar]

Just got back from a 24hour shift and checked in to see how Mr Karlitos is getting on with the highly anticipated benchies.. talk about leavin everyone hangin! Come on m8!

 

[KaRLiToS]

Just got back from a 24hour shift and checked in to see how Mr Karlitos is getting on with the highly anticipated benchies.. talk about leavin everyone hangin! Come on m8!

Don't forget I have a month old baby here. :sneaky:

But my progress so far has been on the rest of the system outside of the GPUs.
Today I swapped my data from a storage drive to another, took many hours, one of my HDD was starting to fail.

Also I created many backup partitions and added another SSD.

My Rig has been left without love for the last 6 months so everything was messy on it.

I also reinstalled Windows and created a benching partition.

Next step is CPU OC, which might not take to much time and after its benching time.

 

[OCGuy]

Hmmm.....most people would bench before ocing the CPU....or you won't have a reference point. Although with that much gpu horse power you'll need every bit of it as you can muster.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Just got back from a 24hour shift and checked in to see how Mr Karlitos is getting on with the highly anticipated benchies.. talk about leavin everyone hangin! Come on m8!

Hmmm.....most people would bench before ocing the CPU....or you won't have a reference point. Although with that much gpu horse power you'll need every bit of it as you can muster.

Sorry but no.

 

[Haserath]

Don't forget I have a month old baby here. :sneaky:

You're leaving them hanging too!

 

[creed3020]

Absolutely cannot wait to see the results from this. When I saw the second PSU my jaw had to picked off the floor. Popcorn is in the microwave.

 

[OCGuy]

Your four 7970s were doing 1.5kw you said in one of your other threads, this has to be more for sure....

Not a single benchmark or screenie of all GPUs @ load after this long? Did you get a bad card?

 

[Skurge]

Your four 7970s were doing 1.5kw you said in one of your other threads, this has to be more for sure....

Not a single benchmark or screenie of all GPUs @ load after this long? Did you get a bad card?

He has 2 PSUs so I think he is fine.

 

[badb0y]

Your four 7970s were doing 1.5kw you said in one of your other threads, this has to be more for sure....

Not a single benchmark or screenie of all GPUs @ load after this long? Did you get a bad card?

No time he has a baby boy so we should just be patient.

 

[Skurge]

No time he has a baby boy so we should just be patient.

Also, let the man enjoy his hardware. I'm glad he bought his hardware to play games with first and foremost.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Ok is that any good?

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1671544

 

[UaVaj]

when you get the chance. make sure you update the heaven benchmark with your underwater quad 290x.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2341362
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2317696

lookin forward to the results.

what the hell does the op do for a living, to afford all this?

all about priorities. wish pc gaming was my primary passion. be a lot lot cheaper than my other hobbies.

 

[guskline]

Ok is that any good?

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1671544

That's beyond good. As Tony the Tiger would say "That's GRRRRRRRRREAT!"