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5970 60c at idle, 100c at load is this normal?

travismoore said:
I had it set up with a curve so it adjusts according to the curve you set. When it was hitting 100C the fan was at 100% though as some have pointed out this was probably more due to furmark being aweful. Though still getting wayy higher temps than i should have when mining.
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Just want to point out that the main reason why furmark is not ideal for representation as load under gaming environment is because it has far higher power consumption than most games would ever come close to, thus much more wasted heat being generated which in turn lead to much higher temp.
 
Just booted it up with the card back in and the difference is quite staggering. With only GPU-Z open it was 40-42C now with some browsing in chrome its around at 50C. This is without messing with fan speed in anyway, fan can't be heard really over all the others in my case which is fantastic compared to before. Also worth noting that the temps are the same for both GPU's I guess the thermal tape was pushing them apart. oops


nicnik said:
Is the 1st gpu downclocking at all. On boot with nothing open. Or is it stuck at max clocks?
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It does appear to be downclocking, GPU Core Clock is sitting at 400mhz with just GPU-Z open and with chrome browsing occasionally jumps to 725 Mhz

Rangerjr1 said:
CLU is fine as long as you're not careless.

Use masking tape around the core as you apply it.
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Using masking tape worked flawlessly thanks for the tip!


I am going to test it out now with some mining and see what sort of temps I get under load.

Wanted to say thanks again for all the advice and help.
 
Ok have set up afterburner and idle temps are now 40C with the fan pretty quiet 30-35%. Mining at 270kh/s per core holding at 80C with 60% fan will push it higher over night but got to keep it low enough so I can still use my pc. Still really happy with that.


Many thanks for the help
 
Seems I have run into a further issue, I have been running it consistently mining at around 80C and since earlier but I have started to encounter some issues.

Twice so far the screen has gone briefly black then there is a pop up in from the system tray that says the AMD driver temporarily stopped working but has recovered.

Then a few minutes ago I started seeing a little artifacting when switching tabs on chrome, I have not stopped mining to work out the issue but I am still getting artifacting.

I also have a question, would it be possible to run my 5850 for my two monitors as the primary card (pcie slot 1) and my 5970 in the secondary?
Or even better 5850 for monitors still in pcie slot 2?
 
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