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New to AMD - MSI HD 7970 Twin FrozR OC BE Temps

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For the last few years I have a series of Nvidia cards and my last card, GTX570 SOC Windforce, which was pretty heavily overlcocked would sit around about 80 degrees under load.

Today my MSI HD 7970 Twin FrozR OC BE arrived and all I've done so far is to install the latest CCC/drivers and try Heaven/Valley and play some Payday 2. In the benchmarks and in PD2 the card will hit 97 degrees which to an AMD novice like me concerned me a little.

Have I made a school boy error somewhere? Are all these SKU's like this or is mine a one off?
 
Are you using the latest Afterburner beta to get the temp? It's possible you've got a misreading. It's too high for stock clocks.
 
teppic said:
Are you using the latest Afterburner beta to get the temp? It's possible you've got a misreading. It's too high for stock clocks.
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I'm using Afterburner 2.3.1. At the moment it's showing an idle temp of 43 degrees which given the ambient temperature of the room seems about right.

Setting the fan speed manually to 60% seems to improve things somewhat and load temps go down to 84 degrees.

Should I just setup my own fan profile in Afterburner to keep temps in check or do you think there's an issue with the card itself?
 
If the temps are unchanged, you've got a faulty card. If they look reasonable, the temps were incorrect (it does happen with some software).

My 7970 overclocked at 1135MHz would only get to about 70C I think.
 
Earlier versions of Asus's own software would misread temps on their 7970. Loads of people RMA'd them without realising there was nothing wrong. That's why I'm suggesting the latest Afterburner :)
 
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That covers the time period of one run of Valley.

You'll see that it just about hit 80 degrees at the end of the benchmark with the fan reaching 75%.

I'm not sure if the improved temps are a result of the different version of Afterburner and/or the fan speed?!?

Either way how does that seem now?
 
That card is buggered if you ask me. Both the fan speed and temperature are too high. I bet its loud as ****.

The lower temp is definitely from the increased fan speed, but it should be running at 70 degrees with 45% fan, not 80 degrees with 75% fan.
 
I'm sure someone with the exact same model will come along, but I'd RMA it. With temps that high you're not going to be able to overclock it really. The TF models should be quiet and cooler, like the reviews say.
 
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