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!

 

[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

 

[Vorash]

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