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85-98C GPU

Powercolor you mean? There are bad cards but it is unfortunately the same across the board for a number of cards over a number of years. There is no reference for a 7870 Tahiti card.

I blame boost and the resulting high power consumption and temps for these cards. That unfortunately is at the feet of AMD themselves.
 
I just bought a 7950 recently and it's hitting 95c in most games, idles around 45c, i know these cards should be between 70 and 85 most of the time but when it's cooler it should be hopefully only about 90c at most, will the card last a long time running this hot or should i return it?
 
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Sorry to say this, but that is not normal, especially for a 6 day build. Either you've screwed up somewhere with your cooling, the graphics card is faulty/underperforming or you've bought a card that has poor cooling to begin with.

The only time I've ever had temps close to that were on my X1900XT, which was hitting almost a 100C. Cleaning out the huge wads of dust and replacing the TIM, sorted that out completely.

Yes, air cooling can't make your GPU cooler than the air around it, but an effective air cooling solution can get very close to it.
 
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Sorry to say this, but that is not normal, especially for a 6 day build. Either you've screwed up somewhere with your cooling, the graphics card is faulty/underperforming or you've bought a card that has poor cooling to begin with.

The only time I've ever had temps close to that were on my X1900XT, which was hitting almost a 100C. Cleaning out the huge wads of dust and replacing the TIM, sorted that out completely.

Yes, air cooling can't make your GPU cooler than the air around it, but an effective air cooling solution can get very close to it.
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Any tips? Items to buy? Anything?
 
I added better fans and a large side fan blowing directly on the card, i also cleaned out the case, so it's definitely the card, will have to return i guess, oh well i might wait for the 9950 instead.

If you've had the card a while i read you can re-paste which might help, otherwise id send yours back as well.
 
Firstly, find out if cooling is a system wide issue by for example checking your CPU temps and compare them with others with similar CPU/cooler combo. If your CPU is hotter than you'd expect (within acceptable margins of course) than make sure your fan and heatsink are mounted correctly, with correct application of thermal paste, etc. Then check your system fans are blowing properly, in the correct directions and there's a clear path for airflow in your case. As long as you have a plenty of half decent fans, setup correctly with no major obstructions in airflow and adequate dust filtering, cooling shouldn't be a problem. Just look at my case:

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It's an Antec 300, packed to the brim, with little or no cable mangement and it's been left like this for almost two years since I built it, never opened except on three occasions where I upgraded the graphics card and HDD and gave it a quick vacuum clean in the process. Temperatures have been consistently cool relative to ambient temps, especially the CPU temps, which have remained virtually the same since I first installed it. My system fans consist of the following: 2x120mm front intakes, 120mm side intake, 120mm rear exhaust + 140mm roof exhaust. All bog standard fans.

Make sure the fans are blowing direction, so you have a natural flow of air (not sure what the correct term is) going in and out of your case. Also make sure your CPU fans are blowing in same direction too as the rest of your system.

If your system cooling is working fine internally, then I'd start looking at external factors, like positioning. I have my case sitting on the floor under my desk, but I leave plenty of space around all it's sides.

If all that checks out, then I'd focus on the graphics card itself. Compare your temps with other peoples temps (check forums, online reviews, etc). If there is a major disparity, it's probably a faulty fan or poorly applied thermal paste, in which case I'd return it. Also check that your OS / drivers are in check and something is not causing fans to spin at incorrect speeds for example.
 
My other temps are all fine as far as i know,its just my GPU on certain games are real high like Alan Wake is 86C and BF3 around 84C now but then Day Z or Euro Sim 2 are around 67C-74C

I am going to play BF3 now,will post CPUID photo after a round of that

Before Battlefield 3

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Just finished a game of Battlefield 3 -It's cool at the moment,probably the coolest its been all week

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Everything ok? Yay or Nay?
 
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use GPUz and use it to show max settings.

Interesting to know would be voltage/time (how often is it boosting). VRM temps and fan speed. To stop it boosting maybe slide %power boost down to easily lower voltage. Yo're losing 50mhz or something; a piddly amount. But I'm not sure if it'll downclock from 925 to 800.

What's the rest of your rig?
 
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