liquid coolling 390x

[CrisisRunner]

Yes Im needing some help as i have a non-reference r9 390x made by Visiontek, i am wanting to find the best cooling for the buck but cannot seem to find any real advice on what to get for it. Closed loop prefered.


System Specs Are AMD FX8370, Liquid Cooled with LEPA Aquachanger 120mm, Visiontek R9 390X 8GB GDDR5, 16GB Kingston Hyper X FURY,
On Msi 970A G43, with Antec Quattro 1200Watt, With Triple Monitor Display, With Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM Green Edition (Primary) Western Digital 1TB 7200 (Secondary) For games

 

[CrisisRunner]

the temps where 198f in starwars battlefront in ultra then after the paste it went down to 156f with higher overclock since it drastically cooled down, even world of tanks would get to 174f now around 136-146f as well, the old factory overclock was 1070core clock with 1500memory clock now overclocked by me and msi afterburner it is 1090 core clock with memory clock at 1800, vrms are not close to heating up anymore

 

[CrisisRunner]

where you able to see the pictures of the card by chance

 

[gtr22]

Yup the top of the chip was clean, not good. Since owning a 290x with high temps I always check the paste when temps get too high. 90c (198f) is not over the limit for the R9 390x, they can run even higher, 95c .

 

[CrisisRunner]

prefered it not lol made my room toasty while playing and would have to stop playing

 

[CrisisRunner]

if i did water cool would the other heatsink help the vrms more instead of changing

 

[gtr22]

The Kraken G12 has only a small fan for the vrm, you need heatsinks or tape to keep the temps down. The gpu temps would go down at least 20c. The Accelero 3 says from 94c to 45c on the 290x. You'll have to look into that more.