BlueGunk Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I've recently installed an R9 280 MSI Twin Frozr GPU 3GB card in my PC for Skyrim (to match an older AMD CPU without bottlenecking). The card runs perfectly - very pleased with it. I have MSI afterburner and I'd really appreciate some tips from other users of this kind of card on best set up using MSI. It comes lightly O/C'd from the factory, and I don't want to cook the card by piddling about with it in 'loser' mode. My biggest concern is keeping the temperature under control. I'm tending to max out at 85-87 C on a fully loaded, ENB'd game using the factory O/C, and I'm not so keen on this kind of temperature even though I know the card has a reputation for being a bit 'warm'. I'd be way more content to see 75 and under. I'm not bothered by O/Cing the card any further because the game runs fine with 50-65 FPS most of the time as it is, and I don't see why I should fry a card for 5% more capacity. But I'd like some tips on controlling temperatures using the MSI Afterburner programme. I'm a bit of a noob for using MSI, and some of the features leave me struggling (a bit like life does, really. After all, I'm 56...). So "for dummies" level tips would - please - be much appreciated! I checked out Gurgle, etc., but most of the video card chat I found needs a degree in astrophysics and leaves me a bit dumbfounded. The rest of the machine is a non-entity at 16GB Ram, AMD 4300 processor (don't laugh, please) and a reasonably with-it cooled Vibox Warrior box. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 When you overclock, you have higher temperatures no matter what mechanism you use. You are right that you will decrease the functional lifetime by overclocking. That said, adjusting the fan speed should help some unless you are already at 100% fan speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMB92 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 The MSis are the better overclockers so good pick there. With the 280, you should be able to boost that to 1100 at 1.175v. But try a lower voltage, say 1.125v then increase it incrementally until you stop seeing artifacts pop up on screen during game. If you cant get ris of the artifacts or potentially crashes, drop from 1100. All the Radeons run hot, depending on your ambient temp you can probably be happy at 70% fan (Twin frozr aeent too bad really). If you increase memory, i think that card is 1400mhz, wither way dont clock too much here, add maybe 50mhz, maybe as high as 100. Memory OC can resuce good OC on your core see. My 7970 ran it 1200mhz for 2 years before degradation called for a drop in OC. In which case it ran at 1140 comfortably but voltage had to stay the same. Either way though keep an eye on your GPU usage during game, if this is not 99% then your cpu bottleneck is not worth overclocking your GPU too much for. Skyrim is particularly CPU bound, so this is an important factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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