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Feathers is right on with the 290X’s. I am running a 290 (non X verison) and I’ve had to do the same thing. Kept at stock fan speed, the card underclocked itself to stay at 95C. I am running MSI Afterburner to control clock speeds, fan speeds, and voltage.
I have my fan run between 55%-63% to keep the card in the low to mid 80C’s. I believe stock on the 290X is 40% fan speed in quiet mode and 47% fan speed in uber mode (that small physical switch on the cards controls which mode it is in - make sure the computer is off to switch modes). In uber mode the card should be able to keep closer to it’s max 1000Mhz boost clock, but upping the fan curve in MSI Afterburner would make it even better.
I can help with MSI Afterburner settings if you need it. I’m sure the Sapphire Trixx program is similar. I chose MSI Afterburner because it has voltage controls for the 290 series (undervolting also helps a lot with heat). I’m not sure if Trixx does.
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downloaded afterburner … set fans at 63% and now cards read temps 86 and 78 … without any changes to my cgminer crypt my cards are hashing 700Gh/s … i am going to test the cgminer scypt changed to I -20 i am getting between 800 and 900 Gh/s at temps 86 and 78 … looks like afterburner is the win. thanks!