Sonolegolas

Good day reader,

I have bought an HD4850 and have been working on it for a few weeks now. A few days ago I checked the temperature of the videocard and it was suprisingly high compaired to when I first bought it. I idled at around 80C at 24% fanspeed. And when I play games I get to 90-95C at 50% fanspeed. If possible, could you give me some tips on improving this temperature?

Also some information: I've replaced the normal thermal compound with AS5(made no diff though) And I have 8.10 beta drivers(which adjust fanspeed automaticly)

Here is a scetch of my case.



Thanks cincerely for reading.

AMD+nVidia

If I'm reading your picture right, it looks pretty good...

What are your ambient temps?

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What type of fans are you using?

Sonolegolas

My ambient is 20C and I use 1 Coolermaster fan(the top outtake one) it produces around 40CFM and I use 2 fans that came with the case. And the fan on the heatsink is the original from which came with the heatsink.

Judging from testing with my hand and a wet finger, I recon they all produce around the same CFM as the coolermaster

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Putting a second intake fan above the one you already have, and adding a side intake fan should drop your temps significantly.

At the very least, if you don't want to purchase more fans, switching one of your exhausts to a side intake would be a good option.

Sonolegolas

A second intake fan on the front will be a problem, there are no screw holes there to put a case fan. I will try the side intake right now.

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Interesting, according to the product description you should be able to fit 8 fans in this case...

2 side
3 front
2 top
1 rear

bluedevil

I can confirm this, as I have this same case...But I can only run 2 in the front due to my burner taking 1 bay up. Check out my build log in my sig to look at pix.

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CorryBasler

Have you tried getting all the dust out of the Card? Also why not just set your fan to 100% 24/7 that will bring temps down alot!

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Clearly you have not witnessed the noise the coolers they slapped on these cards are capable of pumping out