Don't know if this has been mentioned but I thought I liked to share. So I bought a new 290x and we all know heat output is an issue with these guys. When I looked at my Overdrive tab I saw my idle temp was always at 74-78 degrees. Kind of scray if you ask me . The GPU core clocked down to 300Mhz but the memory was always at 1250Mhz.
I was google'ing and saw that having a refresh rate of 144Hz will always run the memory at full speed. When I knocked it down to 120Hz, the memory speed went down to 150Mhz and now my idle temp is at ~52 degrees. Don't know if this may be tweaked in a future driver updates but it looks like it has affect on on the green and red team cards.
I was google'ing and saw that having a refresh rate of 144Hz will always run the memory at full speed. When I knocked it down to 120Hz, the memory speed went down to 150Mhz and now my idle temp is at ~52 degrees. Don't know if this may be tweaked in a future driver updates but it looks like it has affect on on the green and red team cards.