Asus 7950 v2

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Hi, I have an Asus AMD 7950 DirectCU II v2 and I overclocked it to 1080 mhz core (from 900) with Asus Gpu Tweak. Naturally I changed the fan settings to user define and I tweaked it a little until it the gpu stayed in the low 70's while overclocked in full load, it was a bit noisy but I prefered it that way since I game with headphones. After about one, maybe two weeks (meaning today) I started playing a bit of Skyrim (very, very modded version) and I was curious on the gpu's temperature so I opened up Gpu-Z and have it to make a log so I can see how the gpu was handleing my game. Luckly I got bored after a hour and to my horror when I opened the log file the fan speed was at 10% even in the high 80s and then shifted to 100% in the 90s. The maximum temperature reached was 97c. Of course I did not make such fan profile, the one I made did not let the gpu go over 74c tops. I confirmed this after opening the gpu tweak and the fan settings was as I configured them. After playing around a bit with asus gpu tweak I realized the damn fan profile does not work unless the application is opened but the overclock still was enabled regardless. I'd like to mentions that I did not have any frame rate issues or any other bad stuff that could be related to the gpu, the game run just fine. With that being sad, was there any damage done to the card in this 1-2 week period (i moded it a couple of days ago and until then i played the consoleized version only, no other game) ? Is there a way to make that damn application load my profile without me opening it, the overclock part seems to remember to activate when i start the pc but not the fan settings and is it normal to behave like such ?

This is the log file download: 

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jmgy0m

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Dunno if this will help,

But sometimes my fanprofile in msi afterburner isnt active aswell, As i have to open it manually. And yes, then my GPU is at 92° degrees aswell.

But I always thought it was because I fiddle too much with it (clock settings, eyefinity setting, xfire setting). I guess I dont have any real answer for it, besides that it resets when something changes. I usually check if the profile is active before I play.

All I can say those AMD GPU's can take an incredible temperature punishment without any issues :). The hardware is probably fine. I believe it can take punishment up to 100°, as long it isn't for repetitive periods.

(I use 7970's, so its basicly almost the same card as yours)

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I made a auto-startup shortcut in windows aswell for msi afterburner, perhaps you should do the same. Mine starts in the background, so its pretty botherless.

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Thanks for the reply and the patience to read the wall of text I posted, your post puts my mind at ease, I thought I destroyed my new video card. I looked into the settings of Asus Gpu Tweak and I noticed that "start gpu tweak with windows" was unchecked, on deafult it was checked but I changed it when I installed the program because I'm used to disabling programs that start with Windows for the fastest boot time. It's a good habbit but it almost got my gpu fried today so I'll be more careful. Now that the program starts with the OS the fan profile load without me doing anything. I just ran a full 15 min 1080 benchmark on Furmark and I got max temps of 68c on 50% fan speed.