AMD R9 390 reaching 95 degrees

[Gabor_4]

I have an Asus r9 390 Direct Cu ii (not overclocked) with an Intel I5 6600. After 20-30 mins of playing it reaches 95 degrees. My fan configuration is set to auto and the fans are spinning at 60%. My case has 2 front 12cm intake fans and 1 rear 12cm exhaust fan. They are in a push-pull configuration,so i don't think that the case fan is the problem.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Hello,

Take a picture of the inside of your case with the side panel removed please.

It's likely clogged up with dust, or a fan(s) is malfunctioning.



All the best!

 

[Gabor_4]

Hello,

Take a picture of the inside of your case with the side panel removed please.

It's likely clogged up with dust, or a fan(s) is malfunctioning.



All the best!

Hello!
Case: http://postimg.org/image/yq9k3dv6j/
Fan: http://postimg.org/image/3pbr03a57/

I hope this helps you!

 

[DustinV]

Side note- you have your CPU heatsink on backwards. Would cool a lot better if it's the other way around, blowing air through the fins.

Are your gpu fans spinning?

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Monitor the GPU fans as mentioned above, while the PC is running, with the side panel off. If you have pets, don't let them inside, they can shorten components.

I would rotate the heatsink + fan the other way, or at least make sure the fan is blowing towards the exhaust fan next to it, not straight through the heatsink.

 

[Gabor_4]

Side note- you have your CPU heatsink on backwards. Would cool a lot better if it's the other way around, blowing air through the fins.

Are your gpu fans spinning?

Yes, my GPU fans are spinning and maybe my CPU heatsink is backwards, but it reacheas 30 degrees idle and 55-60 degrees at loads,so i'm ok with that.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

If that fan is pushing air through the heatsink, you're increasing temp for the GPU as well. You're trapping hot air.

 

[Gabor_4]

Monitor the GPU fans as mentioned above, while the PC is running, with the side panel off. If you have pets, don't let them inside, they can shorten components.

I would rotate the heatsink + fan the other way, or at least make sure the fan is blowing towards the exhaust fan next to it, not straight through the heatsink.

Here are the results after 3 mins of Furmark without side panel: http://postimg.org/image/q35q30a3f/

 

[CryoWolf]

My friends MSI r9 390X gets to 97 C - Real hot. The fans not spinning till certain temp on these card are ridiculous and he has a god air flow case with good static pressure. Personally I would turn your heatsink the other way around, make sure you're getting a good air flow from the front, possible leave the side panel off for a little to see how that effects the temp as the card is blowing the air around the case and go into the crimson drivers, go to the global setting and select overdrive. THEN manually select the fan speed and adjust it to a noise level I guess you are comfortable but make sure its dropping the temps though, with my friends case we set the fans to 60 all the time and with the side panel off at full load its dropped down to 68 and with panel on the cpu reached a max of 77C

 

[Gabor_4]

My friends MSI r9 390X gets to 97 C - Real hot. The fans not spinning till certain temp on these card are ridiculous and he has a god air flow case with good static pressure. Personally I would turn your heatsink the other way around, make sure you're getting a good air flow from the front, possible leave the side panel off for a little to see how that effects the temp as the card is blowing the air around the case and go into the crimson drivers, go to the global setting and select overdrive. THEN manually select the fan speed and adjust it to a noise level I guess you are comfortable but make sure its dropping the temps though, with my friends case we set the fans to 60 all the time and with the side panel off at full load its dropped down to 68 and with panel on the cpu reached a max of 77C

That didn't help me too much. I turned the fan to 100% and after 10 mins of furmark my GPU get to 89 C with sidepanel. Without sidepanel it reached 85C after 10 mins, while the fans were spinning on 100%. I think something is wrong with the thermal paste or with the cooler.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Definitely.

 

[CryoWolf]

Well have you tried it with Valley or Heaven benchmark, fur mark is an unrealistic load in a matter of opinion.

 

[Gabor_4]

Yes, i have tried it Heaven and I got the same temperatures.

 

[CryoWolf]

Just done some browsing turns out that the cooler for the Asus direct CU II is actually bad in general with loads of 85 C considered normal in good cases as it is. Its nothing wrong with your card I believe just the cooler is not up to the job of that power hungry card. Maybe you have a high ambient temp as well?

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Unless the ambient is 50 C, then it's not normal.

 

[Gabor_4]

Just done some browsing turns out that the cooler for the Asus direct CU II is actually bad in general with loads of 85 C considered normal in good cases as it is. Its nothing wrong with your card I believe just the cooler is not up to the job of that power hungry card. Maybe you have a high ambient temp as well?

My room temperature is 24 C.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

OP's card is defective. Running the card at 100% fan speed is already a very strong indication of that.

 

[CryoWolf]

Its not a defective cooler, its just that the Asus Direct CU II is a bad cooler in general, possibly the worst other than the reference. Nothing compared to a Sapphire Tri X, your cards cooler is just not up to the jobs.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Might make sense, considering you haven't told us load temp at 100% fan speed in games. The DC2 isn't the best, and the DC3 is an improvement, but they aren't bad cards regardless. A GPU's max operating temperature is around 90 C, NVIDIA GTX 900 series max operating temperature is 92-94 C, and the driver would force shutdown if it keeps rising after it started to throttle. But still, at 24 C ambient, it seems kind of odd. The DC2 cooler can't be THAT bad, what's the quality of the fans? So many questions now....

 

[Gabor_4]

The card was defective. Today it died, while I was watching videos. I sent the card back.