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How do you control fan speed in ATi's CCC?

CrashEd

CrashEd

CrashEd

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Just installed my 4870 and the catalyst control centre and noticed that the gpu temp is at 80 deg :eek:

Is this normal? Is there any way in CCC that I can bump the fan speed up or anything?
 
No, you have to use a third party application to control the fan speed, or edit the card's bios iirc.

Ati tools and rivtuner (at the end of the month) should do the trick.
 
Profile hack does work, i have two profiles setup, one for 3D with the fan speed set at 40% and the other is for the desktop which is set at 25%, works great.
 
Yep does work,,make sure overdrive is enabled and on my card I had to change the automatic setting to manual in the XML profile file,remember to activate your profile after.
 
Nope, it's seriously not happening. Got it on 95% now and it's dropped by 2 deg! :mad:

Seriously not getting on with this card. I thought it was going to waz all over my 8800GT, but the performance is actually worse, so it's going back - will probably get a 9800 GX2 or GTX280...
 
CrashEd said:
Nope, it's seriously not happening. Got it on 95% now and it's dropped by 2 deg! :mad:

Seriously not getting on with this card. I thought it was going to waz all over my 8800GT, but the performance is actually worse, so it's going back - will probably get a 9800 GX2 or GTX280...
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95% ?...I had mine drop by 10c with just a fan increase from 23 to 28 %,my fan starts getting loud if I set it to over 35%.

Make sure you have removed all of the Nvidia driver files if you was using a Nvidia card before ie with Driversweeper or DriverCleaner in safe mode.

No way a 4870 card is worst then a 8800gt you have some issues somewhere.
 
Elevon said:
No way a 4870 card is worst then a 8800gt you have some issues somewhere.
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Yup, definitely something wrong. Can't change the fan speed and the frmae rate is pants. Used DriverSweeper in Safe mode to remove Nvidia drivers, so it can't be that.

Any ideas, cos if i don't sort it by tomorrow morning it'll be going back!
 
CrashEd said:
Nope, it's seriously not happening. Got it on 95% now and it's dropped by 2 deg! :mad:

Seriously not getting on with this card. I thought it was going to waz all over my 8800GT, but the performance is actually worse, so it's going back - will probably get a 9800 GX2 or GTX280...
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Somethings definately wrong there. The profiles do work, as again Im using it with the hotfix drivers. Performance wise something is definately wrong, as the 4870 wazzed over my 8800*GTS 512* the improved version of your card, by about 30% on average. I'd take a look at your system in general.

I've got my fan on 35% (from stock 22) and idle temp has dropped to just shy of 50, so something is definately wrong with either your system or your card.

PS. Have you tried uninstalling the drivers, cleaning off everything and just using the hotfix drivers?
 
Elevon said:
Yep does work,,make sure overdrive is enabled and on my card I had to change the automatic setting to manual in the XML profile file,remember to activate your profile after.
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Anyone got this working for both cards in crossfire as i can only successfully manualy control the fanspeed of one card ?
 
Alexrose1uk said:
Somethings definately wrong there. The profiles do work, as again Im using it with the hotfix drivers. Performance wise something is definately wrong, as the 4870 wazzed over my 8800*GTS 512* the improved version of your card, by about 30% on average. I'd take a look at your system in general.

I've got my fan on 35% (from stock 22) and idle temp has dropped to just shy of 50, so something is definately wrong with either your system or your card.

PS. Have you tried uninstalling the drivers, cleaning off everything and just using the hotfix drivers?
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A driver issuse would be the biggest culprit. Nothing wrong with my system, even did a clean istall of everything recently. Can you send me a link to where you got your hotfix from?
 
Rew-UK said:
Anyone got this working for both cards in crossfire as i can only successfully manualy control the fanspeed of one card ?
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You can do both,apparently they are two sets of entries(for crossfire) in the XML file so check you have changed both to the setting you want.
 
can i just ask a really simple question about ATITool seeing as there's people in here using it?

I have it open during gameplay as without it stuff like Crysis overheats my 1900xtx. I overclock the card with Overdrive in CCC.

Seeinbg as ATITool has overcloking features in it, by leaving it open am I stopping the Overdrive clocks from working? What about the options in ATITool for the optimisations that are also in CCC? Will they override what I've set in CCC?

I haven't touched anything in ATITool apart from the fan control profile.
 
Take it from me, your results are evidence of a problem........

Side by side, I benched 2 machines.
My own, at 3.45Ghz, with DDR3 RAM and an 8800GTXoc2
A new build for a mate at 3.2GHz, with DDR2 RAM and a 4850.

They traded scores from game to game, the 88 having an edge here and there, and the 4850 taking the honours in many others (most startling result with the 4850 scoring more than 2x the 8800 in furmark).

So "worse than an 8800GT" is unlikely to say the least.

Oh, and unless I have totally misread the articles on fan hacking........nailing it to 50% or whatever is very big and clever when it's idle, as you're running the fan MUCH faster than the auto-throttle and chilling the GPU nicely. Under 100% load however, you are running the fan at half the speed the auto would be doing, and are gentle BBQing the GPU.
(unless dynamic fan profiles have appeared since last I read obviously).

How come an NV owner is worried about 80degrees idle.....my gtx idles over 70, the 48nn's are much newer, so I'd expect them to be hotter, why worry?
 
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