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Have you guys seen any better temperatures with Crimson drivers?
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I wonder why you would buy old tech nowadays, get yourself a RX480 or Nvidia equivalent.
290x is half the price of rx 480 and not so behind of it in terms of performance.
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Mine was hitting 94c and throttling bad when I bought it a month or two back, I bought some new thermal paste, cleaned the old stuff and reapplied. It maxes out at around 80c in heaven benchmark now with no throttling, no idea if crimson drivers have helped but I assume most of it is down to the fresh TIM application, I'd recommend doing this if buying used anyway, especially on notoriously hot cards like the 290x
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Might I suggest you don't buy a Reference version then, my 290X runs at 1150mhz 24/7, is whisper quiet and does not exceed 70C, if you can get one significantly cheaper than a 480 then fair enough but on a reference card would you really be happy to put up with the heat and noise?
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When did drivers affect the temps 
Thought it's all in the gpu bios that controls the fan speed at different temps
Thought it's all in the gpu bios that controls the fan speed at different temps
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