I recently purchased this card and its temps have been on the rise the past few days. I just started playing Civilization V recently, and have crashes every 10 mins, and have been experiencing load temps greater than 85 C while in this game (Furmark does about the same temp). I'm running stock clocks too. Im past the Newegg RMA time, and don't want to deal with a 4 week+ RMA with HIS to. Is there anything I can do to reduce these temps to normal ranges for this card (~74C)?
This card should be the coolest out of all the 7950 non-reference cards. Do a furmark burn in stress test and have GPU-Z log a file while you do that (sensors, check log to file) and give us that file so we can see what is going on. In the meantime, stop playing any games, temperatures that close to the 90's are not safe and will quickly melt your card.
Something is not right, you either get wrong temp readings or a fan is stuck or doesn't work or something really bad is happening in your case. The voltages are ok but for some reason the cooler isn't doing it's job, before you began the test the card was idleing at 55 C with 39% fan speed which is way too much speed and at 80c it was running at 58% which is way too les. Do you have installed any overclocking utility like Asus Gpu Tweak, Msi Afterburner, Trixx etc because it looks to me like a bad fan profile.
I have MSI Afterburner. The card has a case fan giving it fresh air from the side of the case. Temps are fine inside the case, CPU idles 28c on an air cooler. The GPU ramps it's fan up fast. I can audibly hear it, especially in Furmark.
7950 GPU-Z Log Furmark Burn In
Idle ~ 55c
Ambient ~ 20c (68f)
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/CZKs5rcF
Download Mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/?fqf4dy5b3yvdb86
Open Afterburner and click reset, after that the fan speed tab should be gray not green. Try again and see what temps you're getting. If this doesn't work make a fan profile and have it go to 100% at 74c and try again.
Custom fan profile (Hit 80c max during test (Was loud as balls))
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/download/hxv5ncqko3xvfva/GPU-Z_Sensor_Log(2).txt
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/qdeGnD37
Anybody else have any good ideas?
make sure all the fans are spinning and that nothing is blocking them :P
i might just be a bad contact issue between the GPU and heatsink block or bad thermal paste. Take it out have a look clean it up and reseat it, see if it helps
I guess ill order some paste. Thanks for the tip.
74c is also pretty high... actually, i'd say it's beyond the point i'd call excessive, for 925mhz, on a 7950...
for reference, my sapphire dualx 7970/oc w/ boost runs at ~60c, playing skyrim w/ ENB, 2k textures, in windowed. i'm running it on the boost clock of 1000/1450mhz, and the fans are at maybe 50%...
I DID replace the stock paste with arctic silver 5 though, but it only make 3-4 degrees difference. I would check that the heatsink isn't clogged with dust. easiest to do while replacing the paste.
I'm trying to get in touch with HIS. They seem really slow. I guess I can deal with my old 5770 for a few weeks :(. Gonna miss having 4 monitors though... lol
yeah... your gpu is thermo-throttling...with the fan at 3000rpm, so i'm thinking that the cooler isn't seated well, or someone forgot the thermal paste. either way, it's probably something you could fix yourself.
I might have to look into that, since I'm not scared to fix it myself. There doesn't seem to be any warranty protection stickers or anything. What paste do you recommend. I haven't tried many, but I'm definitely using the metal method on this one :).
umm... anything non-metallic. Arctic silver 5 is excellent, and easy to get. i'm using it for both my 7970 and my cpu.
conductive stuff can be problematic with gpu's, as there are some electrical parts close to the IHS...
use the grain-of-rice method if it does have an IHS, otherwise, spread it.
it'll look like this, roughly, if it does have an IHS... and be careful with any thermal pads, they tend to be fragile
Based on this, I think im going to try some xigmatek PTI. I think it might of came with my Xigmatek Gaia on my FX-8320, and it has some really great temps. Thanks for the help Commissar.
I would personally not do this myself. Unscrewing the cooler voids the warranty and it may be a different problem. Just send it to rma.
Removing the cooler was never stopped any of my gpu rma's.
The TIM should still be ok so no real reason to remove the cooler, just give it a good clean.
OP take your side panel off and see what the temps are like then, if temps drop there is an issue with airflow in your case.
they have no way of telling... aside from the better thermal paste... at least, on my 7970, pictured above, there was no warranty void sticker... but you can always rma it....
well, there's no realy way to clean it w/o removing the cooler... it's like a ref cooler, except with a bigger fan and heatpipes...
