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Sapphire 1gb 4870 temps

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Dopamin3
I have this sapphire 4870 and I decided to run a stress test. With my overclock the temps seemed pretty normal in ATITool, they never went above 70 degrees over a period of about 30 minutes. But when I ran less than 5 minutes of the OCCT stress test on the GPU, I saw temps upwards of 90 degrees. Is this something to be worried about? I stopped the test a few minutes in because I was scared it was going to melt :S
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sav5716
Temps that high are never good. What are you recording temps in?
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Dopamin3
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Temps that high are never good. What are you recording temps in?

Everest ultimate and GPU-Z both read the same temps. And OCCT makes that graph thing at the end.
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Dopamin3
Here is the graph generated by OCCT over a time period of a little over a minute. I never see temps this high from using ATITool.
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Ricdeau
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Here is the graph generated by OCCT over a time period of a little over a minute. I never see temps this high from using ATITool.

Well if you never see temps get that high in ATItool which in turn is going to be higher than gaming why even worry about it? It's an unrealistic that anything is going to cause heat on your card like that. I'd pay much more attention to how hot it gets with real use.
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i wouldn't worry about it, 4870's are designed to handle higher than that
is it a reference cooler?
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walno2
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Originally Posted by Dopamin3 View Post
I have this sapphire 4870 and I decided to run a stress test. With my overclock the temps seemed pretty normal in ATITool, they never went above 70 degrees over a period of about 30 minutes. But when I ran less than 5 minutes of the OCCT stress test on the GPU, I saw temps upwards of 90 degrees. Is this something to be worried about? I stopped the test a few minutes in because I was scared it was going to melt :S
I have the exact same card and case. So we share similiar cooling environments. I did slap a 120mm fan on my side panel though. My temps are a little higher than yours, so I think you will be ok. My idle is 55c and max load is somewhere around 75-80c. I have never ran the OCCT, so I can't help you there.

I have a similiar thread going:
http://www.overclock.net/ati/469730-...temps-too.html

From what I am being told, I think our cards are safe with even a little room to spare. I have mine clocked at 800/960 for now.
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those temps are fine, i have same card,even if it stayed at 90c it would be ok, not that you wanna it to be that hot, but they can handle up to about 105c max. average temp of 70 means you doing fine, mine never goes above 60c, but then again i got a antec 1200 and a 120mm side panel fan blowing on my card as well
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Also a Sapphire 4870 1 gb owner, and I also have pretty high temps under heavy load. If you really want to melt your card, try furmark - which ATI actually tries to prevent from running, but it outsmarts it by renaming the .exe to something random. My card idles at 50-55c and under gaming load goes to 70-80c. Furmark puts it to 100c almost instantly, with fan at 100%. That is certainly not recommended, although my card did survive it long enough to get the short benchmarking run finished.

Performance and stability seem fine despite the relatively high temperatures. I can also OC up to 800 clock 1050 ram without increasing the temperatures much, the fan just spins a bit faster to compensate.
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Arkanor
It's possible OCCT is generating much higher temps than anything else somehow. I find ATItool is a much more accurate representation of what the max GPU temp you'll see is, I don't know of any games that push it to or beyond that ATItool temp.

However, if you REALLY want to burn holes in your card, you can Furmark it (it's possible OCCT does something similar.) I've never seen anything come close to the amount of stress Furmark puts on ATI cards.

I have rewritten fan profiles on my cards so idle is 40-42C, load is ~60C depending on game or testing tool, Furmark pushes it slightly north of 70, but it gets loud.
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IEATFISH
I had those same temps and it was too hot for my liking. Now I have a new cooler and I don't get above 55 or 60C. I would recommend it.
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I had those same temps and it was too hot for my liking. Now I have a new cooler and I don't get above 55 or 60C. I would recommend it.

And what cooler would that happen to be?
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i always found OCCT temps to be quite accurate, when i OC my cpu i mainly look at OCCT and real temp, they always seem quite similiar.
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IEATFISH
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And what cooler would that happen to be?

Well, I splurged and got the TRad 2. It is pretty much amazing.
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