4890 Temps - over 100 degrees?

[Rezident]

hmm I know modern graphics cards can stand a fair bit of heat but according to catalyst control centre my 4980 was just at 108 degrees C during a half-life source game! That cannot be good.

It's a Sapphire 4890 Vapor-X 2Gb (870MHz, 1050 mem). I haven't even overclocked it yet. Only had it two days and it's working fine, other than the fact it could boil water.

Now it's idling at 77 degrees (fan 62%).

Any ideas?

 

[exia]

That seems very high, I'm using a XFX 4890 Black Edition (GPU Clock 1000MHz, Memory 1000MHz) which idles 55c and load 77c.

What case are you using?

 

[siumatfung]

have u checked if the fan is acutalli spininig? i would gete an RMA something seems very wrong

 

[Rezident]

That seems very high, I'm using a XFX 4890 Black Edition (GPU Clock 1000MHz, Memory 1000MHz) which idles 55c and load 77c.

What case are you using?

Antec p182, never had temps problems before with any other cards, something must be wrong with the card.

 

[Rezident]

have u checked if the fan is acutalli spininig? i would gete an RMA something seems very wrong

CCC says fan is spinning but no, I haven't actually looked. Will do, cheers.

There's no way it should hit 108 degrees anyway is there?

 

[exia]

I checked out a review for your card;

"With the clock speeds at the factory default 870/1050 settings and the fan controlled by the driver, I measured 48 degrees Celsius at idle and 75 degrees Celsius while under load."

I'd say RMA.

 

[Rezident]

I checked out a review for your card;

"With the clock speeds at the factory default 870/1050 settings and the fan controlled by the driver, I measured 48 degrees Celsius at idle and 75 degrees Celsius while under load."

I'd say RMA.

Cheers, yes I'm seeing similar reviews. RMA me thinks, thanks.

 

[Rezident]

Update: Moved the card into my other PCIe slot (cos I couldn't think of anything else to do) temps plummeted to 40 - 50. Benching it with everything I've got, Crysis DX10 etc. cannot get temps above 70 odd!

It must have been the X-fi PCI sound card beside the other PCIe slot - it didn't affect my old card because the fan was at the end of it but the fan is in the middle on this card so having a PCI card beside it must have been blocking airflow.

And the onboard sound sounds the same as the X-Fi! At least temps are down

 

[[timko]]

Update: Moved the card into my other PCIe slot (cos I couldn't think of anything else to do) temps plummeted to 40 - 50.

How comes you didn't have the 4890 in the PCI-E slot nearest to the CPU in the first place?

If you had it in the bottom (furthest away from the CPU, or far left in the image below) PCI-E slot and the XFi in the PCI slot immediately next to it then it's hardly surprising the fan on the stock 4890 cooler is going to be fighting for cooler air.