Psycho666

is this normal?

that thing is friggin hot!
it`s still stock and idle temp is 74c and stressed it goes over 100c!
and i`ve had some BSOD`s already cause temps went over 110c
i`ve got the xfx one...with a rather small heatsink + fan...i also use rivetuner to force the fan to 100% but it doesn`t help at all.

should i just put an accelero S1 on it or doesn`t it help that much?

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headcrabcake

no its not normal my 9800gt i fgot yesterday (cheaper the 8800gt)

is allways around 70C the fan auto changes to the heat so it allways stays aroudn 70C

i think you got a faulty one sorry

i have the exact same XFX one as you so yea its faulty

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skugpezz

these cards dont run @ the clocks you actual see..they are oced by the pcie bus so the actual clock you are seeing isn't correct it is higher...try turning clocks down until you get the cooler..give me a link to the product

headcrabcake

update* i just took the XFX cooler off (its quite a small one) and i used my own themral paste and it lowerd my temps by 10C so try that mate

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Psycho666

cool thanx!

i just got the card out of my computer and i burned my fingers
i`m now gonna take off the stock cooler and replace that with the Accelero S1 from my HD3870...so that should work
i`ll tell you the temps in half an hour or so

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Psycho666

wow i just put the accelero S1 on it with some MX2 tim
and with the fans that were on my hd3870 as well...
idle temp dropped from 74c all the way down to 31c
and stressed temp dropped from 104c waaaaaaaay back down to 50c
lol now that`s what i call a temp drop

thank god the HD3870 has a pretty good stock heatsink cause that`s back on there and temps only rose to 69c (while it was 54c)
so that`s no problem at all

thanks guys!

now i`m gonna find out what a nice OC is and try and get it higher than that

cheers!

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headcrabcake

very nice to hear mate i my self have a accelero s1 rev 2 im gonna put mine on latter as your results were so good


what do you use to stress test?

thanks for the repu

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Psycho666

as stress test i use 3dmark06 and Folding@home GPU2 client
if the point are over 5000ppd for at least one WU than the oc is stable and the temps are safe

but atitool works wonders too

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skugpezz

can you post some pics of the work you don on the card?

headcrabcake

hmm i clicked find max core and my screen flashed black and whote in 3 layers up the screen is this how it find the max core? or is somthing wrong or is ati tool no good for finding max core

what do you use to tell the temp? nvidia monitor says its 39C same temp as my old 8800gt

Everest says my temp is 32C just like yours abut that ambient temp and gpu memory is 31 C

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