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    News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    The PowerColor LCS R9 290X uses a full cover water block design.
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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    They can't state temps on a wc block without stating the used rads and pump also. And it seems that they mounted it badly as most EK cooled 290x cards run at 50°C after overvolting.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    OCUK tech labs had theirs out not long after launch... so this is actually the first factory fitted partner card with a waterblock, not the first card outright. Although both versions are using the same block by EK so be interesting what the cost difference is...

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    Okay Hexus should make review on this and I need to know how much it can achieve in overclock.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    Quote Originally Posted by Mowgli View Post
    They can't state temps on a wc block without stating the used rads and pump also.
    Uh, yes, they can. The whole point of these cards is that they run to a specified temperature, and scale back frequency to maintain the target - in the air-cooled cards, this was 95°C. In these cards, it'll be set to 60°C.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    Quote Originally Posted by MaverickWill View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mowgli View Post
    They can't state temps on a wc block without stating the used rads and pump also.
    Uh, yes, they can. The whole point of these cards is that they run to a specified temperature, and scale back frequency to maintain the target - in the air-cooled cards, this was 95°C. In these cards, it'll be set to 60°C.
    95 is the threshold before it has throttle the card down yes, but running it on liquid means it should never have to be throttled. Otherwise whats the point in overclocking it to only throttle it again with a lower temperature threshold when air can support up to 95?

    Setting a target temp on a liquid solution is crazy (especially when it gives lower performance threshold than that of air), so i'd imagine that the temperature specified there will be the maximum temperature the card has reached during its testing.

    So going back to what the OP was saying he is actually right as there is no explanation on the minimum requirement gear they used to reach those temps. A single rad with 1 fan which has little to no static pressure really wont perform much better than a well ventilated case & air cooled card. So without any context on how they tested the temperatures then the figures are pointless...

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    They missed some vital information which is ambient temp.
    I have a pair of 780 Hydrocoppers and OC at 1200Mhz they stay at 35 Deg C with a ambient room temp of 22 Deg C. I do have a rather large rad though 9 x 140.
    As for the comment about rad size, strictly speaking a smaller rad doesn't always mean higher component temps as you can run the rad fans faster to flow more air. I went for a large rad as a larger area means lower fan speeds thus less noise.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    i'm really curious about the overclocking clocks on this one, how far will it go.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    Quote Originally Posted by eatonm62 View Post
    strictly speaking a smaller rad doesn't always mean higher component temps as you can run the rad fans faster to flow more air
    No not by any means - but it purely depends on your configuration which was what the OP was getting at.

    A push/pull with high static pressure fans will shift a lot of heat. A rad in the config I mentioned previously would perform poorly..which I used just as an example to illustrate that without the background information, it counts for little.

    As you say, you run what I'm assuming is a configuration using your household radiators with that number of fans but we can relate your GPU thermal performance against your actual cooling setup because you have given us the details.

    It would be mighty impressive if they achieved those temps in a 30 degree room using a single pump, awful fan on the lowest speed setting a rad that has fins too thick for the air to push through. Until we know I have to say its a bit meh considering I have seen this benches of this card run at 50 on liquid.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    Quote Originally Posted by .havoc View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by eatonm62 View Post
    strictly speaking a smaller rad doesn't always mean higher component temps as you can run the rad fans faster to flow more air
    No not by any means - but it purely depends on your configuration which was what the OP was getting at.

    A push/pull with high static pressure fans will shift a lot of heat. A rad in the config I mentioned previously would perform poorly..which I used just as an example to illustrate that without the background information, it counts for little.

    As you say, you run what I'm assuming is a configuration using your household radiators with that number of fans but we can relate your GPU thermal performance against your actual cooling setup because you have given us the details.

    It would be mighty impressive if they achieved those temps in a 30 degree room using a single pump, awful fan on the lowest speed setting a rad that has fins too thick for the air to push through. Until we know I have to say its a bit meh considering I have seen this benches of this card run at 50 on liquid.
    Hi, I am using a Phobya supernova rad.

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    oh my just what I've been waiting for ... I think I've just had a sex pee ....
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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    I'm wondering what they will price this at.

    Not cheap I'd imagine!

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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    atm I have 2x triple rads and a quad single loop .. cpu (@5ghz),nb,vid card never run it on full (50%) and get load temps of 50 deg c
    but so want this card ..
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    Re: News - PowerColor announces AMD R9 290X with liquid cooling solution

    Looks like the price is £599.99 with an ETA of 17th of Jan. Available for pre-order now.

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