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7970/50 Arctic Accelero Users

TaKeN said:
That is annoying Matt :(

On another note, got home for lunch. Booted up pc.. locks up with black screen. Won't boot.

So I removed the card and took the cooler off. A couple of the heatsinks were too close to some electrical parts at the top left of the card. So I gently moved them across slightly.

Starting to regret fitting the cooler now!! I've just played ten minutes of FarCry 3 without issue. But only time will tell if I've fluffed this install.
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I know Taken, i bet they will deny it now as well. I've sent them the link to that thread incase Daniel tries to deny it. I'm going to badger them and hope they pull their finger out. Gits!

What were your temps like? If you have sleeping dogs id advise on having a good long go on that.

If the card works now then im sure you'll be ok, but moving those heatsinks will probaly cost you at least a few c. If it was the GDDR heatsinks, or the heatsinks on the left of the card, i wouldn't worry too much.
 
I'd be interested if all of my Accelero brothers could post up some of their gpu/vrm temps while playing sleeping dogs for 30 minutes. Vsync on, 1080p or 1440p, highest possible settings but SSAA on High instead of extreme. If you could leave you card on stock voltage, or as close to that as possible, run clocks of 1125/1563, or as close to that as possible so i can compare my temps.

This is what i got

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I have to say the vrm temp is mostly between 72-74c. It goes up to 75c in daytime at one specific part of the second city. Not sure why, maybe that part is very heavy on the compute SSAA. Anyway if anyone could take the time to post their results, id be grateful. :cool: THE FAN RPM and Voltage reported are both incorrect. I've noticed that HWINFO never reports the correct values for these. My voltage was 1.112 in afterburner.
 
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tommybhoy said:
I'll see what I can do about SD temps, though I can't get anywhere near my rig right now, between my boy being cracked up with Minecraft and the leash round my neck right now as the missus is still on holiday and stays up later than usual, it may be a while.:eek:
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Damn i thought you were about to share a kinky bondage story with us. :p

Sleeping dogs temps whenever you're ready mate.
 
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That is using HWINFO Fire. :)

I'm playing sleeping dogs again, since its been a week or so since i ran those last temps. I think my temps may have dropped a few c, i will repost my results shortly.
 
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I seem to have gained a few C by changing my top 200mm fan round to one that runs 100rpm faster. Moving my two pci-e cables away from the card, they come down from above at angle, previously they were coming in front of the 3rd fan, possibly blocking some of the air.

Finally i unscrewed the card from the bracket as i wanted to make sure that no heatsinks had slipped off. They hadn't but when i screwed it back in i pushed up against the fans and i noticed that i had much less slant on the pcb this time. Maybe that made the difference i don't know, but one of those three things has knocked 4-5c off my temps. 71c was the peak this time before it dropped lower, but before the peak was 75, this time it spent most time between 67-69c.

That seems pretty good to me, will see what you guys come back with. This was with the Accelero at 100% and my two 200mm fans at 100%. All those still sound much quieter than the reference fan at 50%. Room temp was 25c.
 
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I ran my test again, it must have been a cold day that day as they were slightly higher this time but still good. Thanks Stu for providing the info. :)

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tommybhoy said:
Ot,
Matt, hope your watching, what drivers you using for W8 mate?

What Hwinfo are you using too, it just locks the system up for me, but I think I have some kind of problem somewhere, system has become quite unstable since Saturday. :(
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I'm using the 12.11 latest beta drivers tommy+caps. I get them from the same link as the windows 7 drivers as if you click the windows 8 driver link on the AMD site it only shows the 12.10 WHQL drivers.

I'm using the latest official release of HWINFO, i don't bother with the beta versions.

TaKeN said:
Shall post up my temps tonight. Identical to yours I think matt.

Running 1920x1200 on extreme though!
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Guys if you don't already i highly recommend altering the AMD sleeping dogs CAP profile to include x16 Anistropic Filtering as sleeping dogs does not have in game AF. Makes the game look so much better. Check out the road textures after you do it.

It also knocked 1c off my temps as there is a slight fps hit. Well worth it though!

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tommybhoy said:
Good info on the AF, will give it a try when I sort out my PC.



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Thanks matt, alrady got the latest betas, it's 12.11 beta 8 that's been in it(haven't used W8 much)so I'll move up to the latest.

Tried both the Hwinfo's but it's maybe hard locking as I took my old config settings from W7 and dropped them in, think I may have to remove them and forget about the vrms displayed in AB osd.
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Np Tommy.

I can share my hwinfo config file + my afterburner files if you like my OSD setup. Here's what it looks like. :)




That part i took a screenshot of is the most demanding part of sleeping dogs for VRM heat. I don't know what it is about those sewers but those areas heat up the card the most.

If you want to use my osd settings Close hwinfo+afterburner.

place this file in the hwinfo program folder and overwrite
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xp9d3p

extract and place both folders in your afterburner program folder and overwrite
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4i4iof


In other news...

I think i may need to update the afterburner guide, pretty sure atiman uninstaller has corrupted my windows 8 install. Tried a sfc/scannow but it cannot repair. Gonna have to bite the bullet and reinstall. Lucky i have all my games on my second ssd drive.

I'm not having any issues, but the fact sfc/ scannow finds errors and cannot repair them is a worry. Don't think ill bother with these driver cleaner progs any more.
 
tommybhoy said:
Thanks matt, will give those a try when I get round to looking at the PC at length, but I think I'll need to roll my sleeves up but icba tbh.
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I just tried copying my settings after reinstall windows 8, afterburner worked but HWINFO didn't. It must store the settings somewhere else with regards to the overlay. Had a look round but couldn't find them.
 
chipachap said:
Mine doesn't go over 52c on core and 72c VRM's at 1225/1750 @ 1.3v in BF3 preset at Ultra.

Will try FarCry3 and Sleeping Dogs at some stage.

I used one of the square heatsinks for the bottom VRM where they recommend a skinny one as there's loads of clearance after the offset. Never used those strips either they're only needed if yer shloppy with your glue! I also used this instead of the pre-applied MX-1.
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Are you using vsync or an fps limiter for those temps chips? Will be interested to see your sleeping dogs temps after 30 minutes gameplay, that game loves heating the VRMS with SSAA on high.
 
The Accelero spares i ordered from Hong Kong arrived, this was before i found out tommy had some spare G1. I said i wasn't going to touch it again, but look at that permanent adhesive. According to daniel from Arctic offering better adhesive qualities and better cooling. Must resist temptation to use it and void warranty. :(

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http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/accessories/587/thermal-adhesive.html

Does anyone have any idea what brand adhesive it is? What its specs are? How it cools compared to G1? I can't find any info on it anywhere and as far as i can see no one on the internet has used it, or if they did they are in hiding, possible in Botswana.
 
TaKeN said:
ADHESIVE.. Hmm.. I'd avoid like the plague :p

Go for those high spec thermal pads. Worth a try surely?

TBH I'd be happy with the temps you have. They are within perfect healthy limits. Lowering the temps further will make absolutely no difference!

I'm running 1150mhz core (1.175 vcore)
and 1575 ram (stock vcore)

Seems to hit 51oc in Farcry 3 now! Hmm, I want more speed though :p
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I know, its an illness. :(

I'm going to have a little fiddle (that's what she said) soon though, just can't resist. For now i satisfied the urge by ordering some spacers from canada (what? its the only place on the internet i could find them) i can then give my spectre pro 200mm front fan some more breathing room from the grill on my 600t potentially increasing airflow and thus achieving my aim of continued improved cooling. :D

Share those vrm temps mr taken, vrm is the new black in this thread.
 
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