kieran13

hi guys i have a gigabyte 4870x2 and i am wondering if anyone else has this problem. my problem is when i play games it all depends after a few mins i get strange colored pixels on my screen i no for a fact that it is heat issue but having my 4870x2 on 60% fan speed sounds like a plane taking off any ideas would be great like an after market cooler anything the noise is just to loud btw these pixels only appear on screen when playing games.

Voltage_Drop

The most viable solution would be to reseat the heatsink with some AS5,that should drop your temp down a few c. Exactly how hot are we talking? What is your idle and load temp?

Also have you scanned it for artifacts?

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Is it the dual fan edi or single ?

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kieran13

hi it is a single fan and it idles on about 80-86 and under load it goes into the 100+ and how do i scan for artifacts

Voltage_Drop

This here would be good for your card. your temps are way to high, I know ATI runs hot but there is a limit.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/index.php

EDIT: sorry wrong cooler. the correct link is in a later post

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That's certainly far too hot, I'd try what the one of the previous posters said. Take off the stock cooler, clean any remaining thermal compound and apply some fresh stuff such as Artic Silver 5 or OCZ Freeze.

However, if the card has not been long purchased then I would recommend you return it to the place where you bought it from or do an RMA through the cards manufacturer.

You could also invest in aftermarket cooling for the card, it would be miles better than the stock cooling.

Radeon915

You should also make some profiles for your card.. If you have at least one, set the idle clockspeeds to 500mhz gpu/250mhz mem, and the fanspeed to 30% It's not audible but it certainly cools a lot better. And as others have said, reaseat the HS with some proper thermal paste It should do wonders. If not, you can always RMA it then.

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kieran13

hey thank you for all your ideas i like the after market cooler atleast then i know ill get some better temps

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Good luck!

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kieran13

hey i was looking at the coolers and it says 4870 not 4870x2 im guessing there is a diffrence because mine has 2 GPU's i am thinking of getting this 1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ARCTIC-COOLING-A...item3efa5d3275

the thing that sux is i live in australia and yeh i cant find where to buy one anywhere