4850 temperature too high?

[Vorash]

This has been happeneing for a while now and it's getting really annoying. Even when playing a game such as world of warcraft, which isn't really graphically demanding... within about 10 minutes my card can reach 100C. Even with the fan speed set to 70% it can still reach this temperature. It's weird though, sometimes it's fine and sticks around high 70s to low 80s.

Is this normal? I've read many posts saying the 4800s are supposed to run at high temperatures but this seems a bit too high!

 

[JonJ678]

This has been happeneing for a while now and it's getting really annoying. Even when playing a game such as world of warcraft, which isn't really graphically demanding... within about 10 minutes my card can reach 100C. Even with the fan speed set to 70% it can still reach this temperature. It's weird though, sometimes it's fine and sticks around high 70s to low 80s.

Is this normal? I've read many posts saying the 4800s are supposed to run at high temperatures but this seems a bit too high!

I agree with you here. 80 is perhaps reasonable, but hitting 100 while running WoW is definitely not a good sign. Most likely is that the cooler is badly seated, also possible is that the card itself is screwed. I'm going through something very similar with a 280 at the moment. Good luck..

 

[jolie77]

+1

 

[LukeTW]

Mine reaches about 60c on load, about 50 idling

 

[arc@css]

I feel for you m8, have you got the latest drivers? My X2 ran not as hot but a little more than to my liking but after the 8.12 it improved. I have my fan on 38% atm and the highest idle temp is around 50.

 

[markk]

Mine is sitting at 57c just browsing the net with 60% fan. It can get upto 95c with 90% fan playing cod4

It has got worse with 9.2 drivers

Oh its not even overclocked

 

[Vorash]

My card isn't overclocked either. I just checked the driver version and it's 8.561.0.0, and now that I think about it my card never ran this hot until I updated my drivers to this version! I'll get the new ones and post back later to let you know what happens.

 

[Vorash]

Ok, I just uninstalled the drivers and got the latest ones from ATI. I've installed them and my driver version is now 8.582.0.0.

I thought the latest one was 9.2? Or have I done something wrong?


Also, should I enable ATI Overdrive? I think I need to enable that to use the manual fan control, but it also increases the GPU clock and Memory clock which could be making the overheating worse!

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[p0rks0da]

Ok, I just uninstalled the drivers and got the latest ones from ATI. I've installed them and my driver version is now 8.582.0.0.

I thought the latest one was 9.2? Or have I done something wrong?


Also, should I enable ATI Overdrive? I think I need to enable that to use the manual fan control, but it also increases the GPU clock and Memory clock which could be making the overheating worse!

Thanks in advance for any help

Overdrive only increases the core/mem clocks if you tell it to. Just activate it and make sure both clocks are set to default, then make any changes to the fan settings you want.

 

[Vorash]

Thanks p0rks0da, I changed it to the default settings. About my driver question though, did I do something wrong?

 

[Biffa]

My fan is at 5% and core temp fully loaded is 56°

I'm running 9.2 drivers