Just dissembled my R9 290 Tri-X to clean it up, and replaced the thermal paste.
I'm disappointed with the finishing quality of the copper plate of the heatsink, it was really rough.
I'm going to test temps first hehe.

No offence,but can you stop calling AMD (and even NVidia) as Always Making Delays and Ngreedia?

I hope AMD won't release 2GB vRAM cards with a price tag of at least RM700..these price range should be at least 3 and above IMO. I don't even know why they released the R9 285 with 2GB vRAM.

G-sync and freesync tested via oscilloscope. It is important how both technology handle VRR below the panel refresh rate.

It looks like G-sync deal with low fps smarter than freesync. In a nutshell, freesync just stop doing it works at below panel refresh rate, leave you with the classic stuttering and tearing. Meanwhile, g-sync doing frames interpolation (double or tripple the frames), and match it exactly with the refresh rate. Genius.

This post has been edited by ruffstuff: Mar 28 2015, 03:03 PM

Holy hell my thermal paste is hard to estimate.
First try :A bit more paste = 83 C and 63% fan speed at stock speeds
Second try: A bit less paste = 88C and 73% dan speed holy hell
Third try: ngam-ngam = now sitting at 77C and 45% fan speed.

The thermal paste stated it have break in period and will have improve afterwards, nice.

But I'm thinking to buy AS MX4 later

remember, GPU and CPU have different method of application

CPU side, dot is king or line or rice grain

GPU side, youll need to apply more

Yeah, I used about three times the amount I used on CPU.
Plus the heatsink of Tri-X has grooves on the plate, it kinda sux.
I'll upload the photos later.

sand the GPU block to the flattest you can?

not sure if it voids warranty though

I thought about it haha but I didn't do it.
If it was over 2 years old maybe.

but then again.. opening the cooler itself is voiding warranty, no?

Question is Different price cost for G-sync and Freesync... RM300-400 different.. ? hmm

If you already using nvidia, changing to ATI is even costlier.

do your trix suffer from Fan stuttering vibration noise ?

dudy that goes same any brand if you change brand gpu if not faulty... i talk about cost of the two brand charging their customer/fans. freesync(amd) GSync(nvidia) both do same job just each hav it own advantage/disadvantage.. but Price of each tech is hugely different...

None.

There was rattling, but I found that it was my wifi card lol. Gave me headaches trying to "fix" the GPU

ur wifi card... eh so i s a coil whine ? hm i swear it was the Trix making fan rattle... cause i add a rubber cushion under the small screw that hold fan in Trixx it kinda helpp.. u sure eh.. hm

Im not saying you need to change to nvidia for g-sync.

Another drawbacks of freesync, due to narrow VRR window for this particular monitor.



Although AMD claim the default refresh rate for adaptive sync is from 9-240hz, but this not the case because it goes back to the panel limitation itself.

Although this problem is not AMD freesync specific, it more to the panel itself.

Why is there two accounts selling in lowyat garage sell, but both are the same under idealtech? yongkeen and zhenwei.

Is it safe to buy from them? I want to buy some thermal pastes from them.

Not coil whine. I had coil whine before but it isn't loud. Now I using better PSU coil whine is very rare.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Mar 28 2015, 11:27 PM

It safe to deal with them. I bought several items in the past from zhenwei.