Can i oc this piece of shit and is it even worth it? I slapped an EVO 212 on it sometime ago because putting on the stock cooler was a big mistake.
Also is there some way to set a custam fan curve without using afterburner? Crimson drivers but it for me and it locks my fan speeds to about 20%, even though AMD said they fixed it. My R9 290 PCS+ is loud as fuck if i go beyond 50% fan speed. I figured i could let it go a bit warmer to about 80c with lower fan speed.
>>55207098
>Crimson drivers but it for me and it locks my fan speeds to about 20%,
Pajeet, I'm assuming that you want to set a fan curve for the GPU. The CPU should be easy, your bios will have fan options.
A) use speedfan for controlling fans
B) you probably can push it a bit, my fx6300 is on 4.2GHz OC on this shitty fan, it's stable and cool enough. you will need to see how far can you go, I expect 4.6 should be reasonable with temps and stability.
>>55207229
yeah i want to set a fan curve for my gpu because from crimson panel i can set low fan speeds but i am afraid to do that because some games make this card get really HOT, i once caught it at about 105 c and i was playing like that for about an hour without even knowing it, that's why i need a fan curve not just fan speed adjust
>>55207260
should i oc it through the crimson software or i should fiddle the bios?
>>55207098
Why don't you use Afterburner? I had the exact same GPU and it worked for me.
>>55207543
Because as i said if i use any version of crimson drivers along with a custom fan curve in AB it locks my fans at 20%, even with the latest crimson drivers. Some people say that it was "fixed" but not for me.
>>55207558
I see. Can't really help you with that. I also had the Powercolor PCS+ 290 with crimson drivers and AB 2 months back. I was running Windows 10.
>>55207651
I highly doubt but is it possible that Win7 is causing it?
>>55207684
It may be possible given AMD's shitty drivers support . Perhaps you can install windows 10 on another spare hard disk and try out. Also, get the Enterprise LTSB version for goodness sake, not Pro.
>>55207558
Pretty sure that you just need to change the settings for GPU fans in Crimson so that they don't override AB, then apply your custom curve.
Wasn't this a problem on immediate rollout that everyone figured out, like, day one? The "only 20% fan locking in Crimson"?
>>55207729
yeah i guess i could try
>>55208453
ofc i disabled the manual fan speed setting in crimson but it doesn't change anything
