Extreme temps

Tonester0011 said:
My idle on my old ref 6970 were 60c. That was with two screens however.
After 6 months of use, in a pretty well ventilated Haf-X the temps were 90c - Turns out it pretty much cleaned my case of dust lol.

Took 10 mins to give it a much needed clean, back to pretty reasonable temperatures.
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Yeah, more than 1 screen kicks most cards into 3d mode so I'd say its more of mid load scenario.

over 100 celcius at 5000rpm fan speed is just crazy though!

OP, you could try a can of compressed air and blow it in the back of the card, should remove all the dust in an instant.
 
I never had any issues with the GPU to be honest when I owned it... If I bought some equipment off someone else id expect it to work.

Please post it back to me or drop it off. I will refund the money for the GFX card if that is ok?

Card purchased

Order Date: 15 Dec, 10, 12:42 am

Order was shipped to:
XXXXXXX

Order Status: COMPLETE

Please note descriptions are current and may have changed since you ordered, please refer to your invoice for an accurate description.
Product Name Price Qty Line Total
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £238.29 1 £238.29
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day): £0.00
VAT: £41.70
Order Total: £279.99

So at the end of 2010.... I know these things normally only have a 1 year warranty on them.



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EDIT

Looks like it is a 2 year warranty.

http://www.hisdigital.com/gb/support-71.shtml
 
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it will have at least a 2 year warranty.

are you sure the fan is actually spinning up? if speedfan took control of it, it could have disabled the fans ability to spool.

before doing an rma, get a £3 can of compressed air and blast the crap out of it.
 
the fan was spinning yeah, and I did clean it, no such luck.

Rick picked it up tonight from me and gave me my money back. Top lad.
 
Well I picked up a Gigabyte HD 7870 from OCUK and it's sitting at 50c whilst in Sleeping Dogs :)

CPU is at 55/60. Reasonable?
 
glad u got it sorted, those temps are fine.
as spixelspixel said, now have a look at the cpu, the temps are a little high for stock speed
 
I'm a bit disappointed with the temps after clocking it to 3.3mhz, it's rising to nearly 70c. I did re-seat and apply new paste to the CPU. Cooler appears to be doing it's job and I have 5 120mm fans set up correctly exhausting air out. Apparently temps should be between 60-65c. I can't get get it stable at the mo, keeps blue screening in Prime so upping voltages slowly.
 
Andybtsn said:
I'm a bit disappointed with the temps after clocking it to 3.3mhz, it's rising to nearly 70c. I did re-seat and apply new paste to the CPU. Cooler appears to be doing it's job and I have 5 120mm fans set up correctly exhausting air out. Apparently temps should be between 60-65c. I can't get get it stable at the mo, keeps blue screening in Prime so upping voltages slowly.
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have u got the front and side fans blowing into case?
then rear and top exhausting
 
is it temps that stopping u going higher? looking around, some are saying its ok to 80.C but its upto you,
also prime95 tends to be a bit cooler than Intel burn test.

did u unlink your ram? ;)
 
I followed this exact guide as it used the same components that I had.

(I don't think temps are making it BSOD, no. Any ideas?)
 
j.col said:
what is your ram speed in bios? or cpu-z
if its still linked, as u increase bclk, it increases ram speed, and quite often the ram will fail the overclock and not the cpu.
just trying a few ideas
also here is a good guide
http://http//www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overclocking/22106-core-i7-overclocking-guide-beginners.html
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Yeah that's the guide I followed. Did it step by step and them did the Prime tests. It did say if you got blue screenies then to up the voltage gradually.

I'm not on the PC now but can get you any info you require in the morning. Thanks for your help
 
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