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7970 high idle temp

Mynight

Mynight

Mynight

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Hello, I've got a MSI 7970 TF OC its idling at 69 degrees. That sounds really hot to me.

Any ideas what I should do?

(its on its standard cooler at the moment)
 
Well, it's higher than it should be that's for sure, though 69C won't cause any damage to the card.

I would open it up and remove any dust. I've done this in the past and have seen dramatic improvements in temps.
 
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It's pretty spotless I had it out a week ago to clean everything :confused:.

If it's not going to cause damage at that temp it will be fine until I get it under water :).

Googling seems to show most hover around the 50 at idle hence the paranoia :D.
 
Twin monitors raise idle temps but shouldn't be anywhere near that.

1. Check the fans aren't stuck/broken.

2. Give it a dust off and the rest of your rig.

3. Make sure it's getting enough clean air and waste heat gets vented out the case.

4. Run a virus scan-bitcoin virus.
 
What are the load temps like?

I didn't realize that 50C was a general idling temp for that model. I'd have thought it would reach the high 30's at the most.
 
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You also might want to change the thermal paste. Did so to my Twin Frozr 680 and found that the factory had barely applied any in the first place. Temps dropped from 85+ to 70ish.

Has it always idled at such a high temperature?
 
Saw the thread title, came in to ask if using multiple screens, what the idle speeds of the card are, and if you've got a Bitcoin virus. Found I'm 15 minutes late and the usual knowledgeable people have beaten me to it and covered everything already - that's why I love these forums. :D
 
In my experience most cards idle anywhere from 30 - 40 Celsius that I've ever owned, unless you connect two monitors and it will add 5 - 10 Celsius on top.

Also my HIS IceQ 7950 was always about 35 - 38 Celsius idle for reference on a single monitor. 60+ is too hot for idle.
 
Yup;

*Multiple screens (2) soon to be 3.
*Both bit defender and avg found no viruses.
*Fans are still running happily
*Seems to have entered idle 500 clock 1375 memory :confused:.
*It's in a 900d with 20 fans running the standard "negative pressure" setup out of the top.

Leaves me with naff thermal paste but I'd have thought it would be like that since I installed it?

Thank you for all the suggestions :)
 
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Yup found bitiminer.exe in the process explorer. (Was reporting as 0% use yet when I turned it off and forcefully removed it the gpu dropped to 54 degrees).

Really unsure why avg/bitdefender/malware bytes didn't find it. Quick google suggests they all already know about it.

No idea how I ended up with that one :(.

Thanks everyone :).
 
Guess 'm a bit late too, but if its any help mine idles at 33-34 at 30% fan speed, although that is with 1 monitor.
Glad its a lot better now though :)
 
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Yup found bitiminer.exe in the process explorer. (Was reporting as 0% use yet when I turned it off and forcefully removed it the gpu dropped to 54 degrees).

Really unsure why avg/bitdefender/malware bytes didn't find it. Quick google suggests they all already know about it.

No idea how I ended up with that one :(.

Thanks everyone :).
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From fixing other's PCs, I've known it to commonly be where people have downloaded games from a certain place with a jolly roger featured prominently in their logo.

The authors know that people downloading games likely have a reasonable GPU with which to play them, so they will put the virus in the installer for the game (as you expect to allow the installer admin rights via UAC to install).

A trick I've taught people are to only agree to UAC install prompts if the publisher is named (2nd line of the text in the UAC prompt, in bold).

If it's "Unknown" the .exe is unsigned, and unlikely to be the original installer.

Not that I'm saying you're a software pirate, just having an academic discussion :>
 
Haha no worries. Only software I've ever pirated was photoshop cs3 years ago before I found out I like it and it was useful so now I've got a legit cs6 copy. Movies are another thing but they don't tend to need to install anything.

Your theory makes sense and is actually quite dastardly :).

You're also quite correct about the uac control however there are some instances where the publisher is unknown but it's a legit company download ie bitdefender for some reason isn't recognised by uac despite downloading it from their site.
 
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You're also quite correct about the uac control however there are some instances where the publisher is unknown but it's a legit company download ie bitdefender for some reason isn't recognised by uac despite downloading it from their site.
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You're right, this to my belief is because a certificate to sign the .exe with costs quite a chunk of money, so opensource, freeware, and indy stuff tends to be unsigned. Most games except the indy stuff tend to be signed in my experience tho :)
 
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