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Asus 6950

Nigel014

Nigel014

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Well just received my Asus 6950 in the mail, Running a Furmark now but I'm getting 42fps average with 90c load temp and a capacitor squeal..

Does this seem normal?

My specs are:

Gigabyte p55-ud3 mobo
i5 750 @3.2mhz
TX 650w corsair PSU
4gb Gskill 1600mhz ram

Any help would be appreciated.
 
ive been hearing furmark is just a overstressing piece of junk....no games rally the gpu like furmark does, its like getting in a car and redlining it in first gear for the duration of your mile long journey to town, car would overheat konk out get damaged.....no one tests the performance of a car that way so why test the performance of a gpu like that....of course this is what im hearing, i could be totally wrong.....im never going to use it anyway
 
Help with cap squeal? Ear plugs? :p There isn't much you cab do bar return it, buy another and hope it doesn't do it. Also, Furmark stesses the balls off of video cards, does it do it during gaming? Fwiw my 5850 made quite a squeal for the first little while during high FPS games (CSS particularly) but it stopped by itself...
 
The squeal wasn't bothering me and now seems to have dissipated which is nice.

What should I be testing with and using for comparison? I really wanna see if I can get some stable overclocks and the shader mod going, but if the temps are already that high on load it seems a bad idea :(
 
all i test gpu overclocks with are games, i clock it up, game for a few hours, sometimes a variety of games...and just keep clocking and keep playing until you get a crash, sometimes it can take me a few weeks of gaming to get the highest clocks....sometimes i forget to clock up before i play which doesnt help

of course you have to first make sure you have a stable system first, so game at stock for a few days then start upping and just play games like you normally do...thats if you do play games


temps wont be the same from game load, they will deffos be lower...90c is furmark load
 
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Running heaven atm, seems to be ok at 77c on load :D I'll do a few more tests and then game for a while.

Thanks peoples!
 
I had that horrible noise so I RMA it and got a new one.
With the temps what I did is replaced the stock themal paste with mx-4 and my temps are 30'c idle and 70'c at load but as of tomorrow my system is going back underwater.
 
Sgt Tackleberry said:
I had that horrible noise so I RMA it and got a new one.
With the temps what I did is replaced the stock themal paste with mx-4 and my temps are 30'c idle and 70'c at load but as of tomorrow my system is going back underwater.
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Good plan, I should have some spare arctic paste somewhere. Thanks :cool:
 
I'm up to a modest 880mhz core on 1.1v with 1345mhz memory clock :) Temps are getting lower and lower on load.

Might just need some wearing in :)
 
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Not too bad? Could probably push it more on the 1.75v core, but this seems sufficient + my i5 will probably slow it somehow.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I have +20% on CCC aswell and temps don't go above 70c full load :)
 
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