Remove Thermal Throttling (R9 290 Gigabyte Windforce)

[smoolae]

Is there any way I could just disable it? This GPU is just driving me crazy, it starts out with a really nice hashrate 29mh/s (stock settings) but within 2 minutes its hashrate goes down to 19-20mh/s.

When it hits its limits (84°C), it just dials its core clock down to 700mhz and I cannot rise it up again.

Is there anyone here who also uses this card/or cards https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-R929OC-4GD#ov for mining? How is Your hashrate with them?

Would flashing its BIOS change anything? And what BIOS would you guys recommend for it?

Thanks for any help!

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[bouldou]

Of course you should not remove this : your card would burn up !!

I have the same card, and here's what I do : I modified the Fan parameters in MSI Afterburner

Go to Preferences > Fan > "Enable user defined software automatic fan control", and push the fan harder than your current automatic settings

Your GPU will be louder, but cooler

Let me know

[smoolae]

Of course you should not remove this : your card would burn up !!

I have the same card, and here's what I do : I modified the Fan parameters in MSI Afterburner

Go to Preferences > Fan > "Enable user defined software automatic fan control", and push the fan harder than your current automatic settings

Your GPU will be louder, but cooler

Let me know

Thanks, pushing the fan does the trick! But the temps are  still around 84 °C (what is not bad, because weather is getting colder and warm room is always nice ). Now only bad thing about it is that I have to sleep in the same room where my miner is (luckily I'm a heavy sleeper, so I do not really care about the sound , but still).

Anyways, thank You!

[QuintLeo]

If it uses a reference board design, try flashing it with a undervolt BIOS from TheStilt.

 

[antantti]

Try core clocks 924, 968, 1004 and 1031. You will loose some hash (not much) but end up with cooler and quieter gpu.

[smoolae]

Try core clocks 924, 968, 1004 and 1031. You will loose some hash (not much) but end up with cooler and quieter gpu.

Thanks, will try! What do You recommend for memory clock?
Also, my core clock seems to be really unstable, it fluctuates from 997mhz to mid 500s and 600s really often, like once every 10 seconds. Is it normal?
I have gotten all my other R9 290s (Reference, DIY watercooled) run really nicely with undervolt and OC, but this card seems to cause me nuisances.

[antantti]

What do You recommend for memory clock?

1000, 1125 or 1250 (if mining eth). Try different combinations and find out what works best for you.

Old Gigabytes are quite often voltage locked so there is no easy software solution for undervolting.

[smoolae]

What do You recommend for memory clock?

1000, 1125 or 1250 (if mining eth). Try different combinations and find out what works best for you.

Old Gigabytes are quite often voltage locked so there is no easy software solution for undervolting.

Seems like 924 and 1125 is giving me 22-24mh/s, well better than before

[bouldou]

Yeah, there's nothing to do with R9 290 Reference design cards, they heat up like hell...

I even tried to replace thermal paste with a good one, with no effect

Only thing I found is to place in front of the gpu a BIG fan : it reduced heat by 4-5 degrees

Good luck

[fanatic26]

They are just hot cards.

My r9 280x likes to run at 86c with 100% fan in a cool environment.

All of my 390x cards like to be over 80c as well.

[QuintLeo]

My Sapphire R9 290 cards (reference blower design) ran at 1050/1250 all day long at around 80 C when they were mining ETH (unless it's HOT in the room they are in) - thanks to being reflashed some time back with an undervolt BIOS from TheStilt.
 They COULD run at 1100/1250 but it didn't help hashrate noticeably while it kicked temp up quite a bit.

 Before that, they struggled to stay at STOCK 947 core clock before they thermal limited if the room was more than about 70F = and were hitting 93C or 94C (whatever the thermal limit point was) pretty much all the time.