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Graphics card over-heating, Please need advice!

lawrence281

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So basically I've got a AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphic card, and I haven't used it in a year since I built my pc with it, due to the fact the case was too small for the PCI slot to fit the card in.
Recently I upgraded to a bigger case and managed to fit it in, so I tested it out, I ran BattleField 4 on Ultra settings, it was fine and ran smoothly, but then the display started to bug out and change colours and the card was extremely hot.

Any help or advice appreciated.
 
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When you say hot, how hot? What's the cooler on the card you're using and how hot is hot?

What is the case you're using and how many case fans do you have? If you can provide the Make and/or model, that would help too.

Have you tried to put any compressed air through the GPU to try and remove any dust?
 
My old HIS IceQ 7950 used to hit about 75 Celsius in BF4 from what I can remember, never went over 80 for sure. Anything 85 - 90 Celsius+ would be hot and bad, but I would have though it would take quite some heat to make the card perform weird graphical glitches unless there's an underlying fault.
 
The case im using is this ** No competitor linking **
The heatsinks were getting so hot during running bf4, I could cook an egg, but the display still is glitching and displaying random colours.
The card is the HIS IceQ radeon hd 7950. There are 3 case fans working.
I havent tried to put any compressed air or anything.
Has the card burnt out? because this was literally the first time properly using it in a year, surely it cant be my fault it doesn't run bf4 properly.
 
Download a program called GPU-Z and run it in teh background while you play sum BF4, it will tell you under the sensors tab how hot its actually getting.
 
MSTRBKR said:
A quick look at the case seems like it provides adequate ventilation (2 front, 1 rear, and an open side panel vent). Unless the fans are running at a low RPM I don't think it's the case.

You might be able to cook an egg on it, but it doesn't mean it's too hot. As said, you need to post up some temperatures.
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My 290 used to happily hit 95c before I created a custom fan profile and modded my case to allow the draw of cool air directly to the reference cooler.
 
we need temps mate. download gpu-z or run msi afterburner monitoring.

Maybe its the paste, maybe the fan, maybe the cooler...whatever
 
I downloaded Gpu, so what now, also for some reason I cant manually control the fan speed anymore with HIS iTurbo..so if i play any high graphic games, it'll overheat again.
Im running the display through the motherboard and not the card, since the display is still glitchy
 
i have a Radeon HD 5830 and that card hits 89C when gaming.

i have cleared out the cooler and re done the thermal paste but didn't lower down the temps but i have had no issues with the card.

may give you a idea of what other cards get too for heat
 
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Another shout for MSI Afterburner here. Great program for monitoring CPU/GPU usage, temps, Memory usage etc. Installed it a few weeks ago and it's invaluable.

You will be able to use the overlay in games to view your temperatures in real time so you can get a handle of how hot it's getting, then you can set a custom fan profile to be able to to cool the card sufficiently when it gets hot.

I have a 270X and the hottest its ever got is 78C in Far Cry 3, never gone above that. When gaming in general it happily sits between 73C and 75C using a custom fan profile.
 
Re-installing the graphics don't do anything, the card isnt really responsive even though the fan is spinning and its being detected through the hardware, I should still have warranty on it, I bought it through here, how do I go about that?
 
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