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

Even if JediFragger's cards are the same - I'd still send it back. Those temps at those fan speeds are simply not normal for a 7970 with aftermarket cooling. MSI are known to have poor QC, I think this is one of those cases.
 
I have the exact same card (bought on the sale a few days back)

i just reset my card to stock, ran unigine valley and got 68 and fan speed 41 as an auto. (44 idle, i have kinda bad airflow in my case for the gpu)

Funnily enough, when my MV was set to 1200, it would always display 1.256 in the afterburner monitor, and for the first time (when i just reset it) its actually running at 1.2v, and i noticed yours is set to 1256 in afterburner.
Gpu-Z reports a whole other set of data on VDDC though, so i dont know whats accurate!

Afteroverlcoking i think it gets around 76-80 in games, and Bioshock infinite made it go up to 97 once, but thats because i left the fan on 25% and when you alt tab out the game the GPU heats up strangely.
 
Definitely running too hot. My old reference GTX 480 never saw 97 degrees and those buggers run hot!
 
spixelspixel said:
Do you have more than 1 monitor connected? Might explain the high idle temp.
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I have 3x 1920x1200, so yes that explains a lot, i assumed it would take a little more grunt to run them in idle.

my main problem at the moment, is the GPU is taking in air from the back, and my main fan is blowing out the same air just slightly above it, causing all the air behind my case to be generally warmer, i need to create a bit more room behind it (around 4 inches to the wall), and possibly change round some other airflow!
 
Got one of these 7970's last night, but have so far only had about 45 minutes playing time. I will do some more playing tonight.

Under normal gaming mine gets to 81C and then manages itself to stay there - if it warms up to 82C then the fan ramps up a little, if it gets to 80C then the fan drops a touch. I did see 84C at one point, but only for a few seconds before the card dropped down to 81C again.

This is at 1050/1500 on both the FrozR and my Accelero-mounted VTX3D reference card, and I was running Just Cause 2 at 5760x1080 (everything on highest except AA, which was at 4x, no frame limiter or vsync in place) with an additional extended monitor at 1600x1200 showing monitoring apps.

Just to give you an idea why my temperatures are on the higher side than other people's, I'm running it as the primary card in a crossfire setup, with a single slot gap between the FrozR's cooler and the back of my second card. This is in an RV03 which has the 90 degree rotated motherboard, which most people agree favours stock cards and doesn't like custom coolers too much. Both stock 180mm intake fans in the RV03 are set to 400rpm at idle and move to 1200rpm when either of the GPUs hit 60C, with the stock 120mm outtake fan always running at full speed.

The temperatures of the FrozR are higher than my outgoing Windforce 7970 (idled at 50C-52C, mostly 72C during gaming), but the fan is much quieter - both at idle and under load. The Windforce was on 100% fan speed from 70C onwards, so during particularly heavy scenes it would just get hotter so I saw 85C a couple of times on it for brief periods. The FrozR sits at 81C with the fan about 80ish%, but during a heavy the scene the fan ramps up further so the temperature stays fairly constant.

From my very brief play, I would say don't worry about the card hitting 80-82C, that seems to be the temperature the fan is trying to keep the card at, but if you're regularly seeing 100% fan speed and temperatures getting closer to 90C, then it might be worth looking into the airflow to the card to see if there's anything blocking it or heating the air up before it gets to the card.

I'll run some Valley runs tonight and see how my card compares to yours during that. What resolutions and settings were you running at, so we can eliminate as many differences as possible to compare apples to apples?
 
Confused Stu said:
I'll run some Valley runs tonight and see how my card compares to yours during that. What resolutions and settings were you running at, so we can eliminate as many differences as possible to compare apples to apples?
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Your card does seem to be running a bit hot if its reaching 80 degrees with 80 fan but may be due to overclock + other card.

When checking later make sure you put the clock speeds and fan profile back to stock. According to reviews, drakt and jedifragger, at stock settings the 7970 twin frozr should run under 70 degrees with fan reaching mid 40's on auto.
 
Another day another update.

I left the PC on overnight (as I normally do), went to work today, came back and ran Valley again. No changes to the system have been made and the ambient temp is about the same give or take a degree.

Today the temp peaks at 71 degrees with the fan hitting 75% and it's now idling at about 35-38 degrees.

The fan speed is still a bit high but it's about 10 degrees lower than last night. Could it the be the TIM "curing" overnight?
 
.Griff. said:
Another day another update.

I left the PC on overnight (as I normally do), went to work today, came back and ran Valley again. No changes to the system have been made and the ambient temp is about the same give or take a degree.

Today the temp peaks at 71 degrees with the fan hitting 75% and it's now idling at about 35-38 degrees.

The fan speed is still a bit high but it's about 10 degrees lower than last night. Could it the be the TIM "curing" overnight?
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Reset everything to stock (including fan curve) and try run a benchmark again. The card should run cool + quiet out of the box without needing to adjust anything. If it doesn't then request a replacement. Did you check that both fans are spinning okay?
 
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skidmarks said:
1.256v, is that standard as seems high for that clock speed?
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Good question. I can only find one review of this exact card and in their screenshots they've got exactly the same core mV so unless I'm told otherwise I assume it's the correct voltage.

spixelspixel said:
Reset everything to stock (including fan curve) and try run a benchmark again. The card should run cool + quiet out of the box without needing to adjust anything. If it doesn't then request a replacement. Did you check that both fans are spinning okay?
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Both fans are spinning as my fingertip can vouch for.
 
Confused Stu said:
I'll run some Valley runs tonight and see how my card compares to yours during that. What resolutions and settings were you running at, so we can eliminate as many differences as possible to compare apples to apples?
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1440p - DX11, Ultra, Disabled, Single, x8, Fullscreen (in that order)

I can try 1920*1080 instead if it helps. Out of interest what vcore are each of your 7970's running at?
 
.Griff. said:
Good question. I can only find one review of this exact card and in their screenshots they've got exactly the same core mV so unless I'm told otherwise I assume it's the correct voltage.



Both fans are spinning as my fingertip can vouch for.
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It's the voltage, just had a look. Nothing wrong with your card I doubt. Drop it to 1.175 and you will be fine at 1050, maybe 1100 and see a good few degrees drop.
 
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