Graphics idle at 46-56

[Adisan]

Hello.
I have a Sapphire HD 7970 Vapor-x cooling graphics card.
It's always running at 46-56, when playing games it's normally at 56C
Bare in mind it is running 3 screens, but it shouldn't be that high?
I personally think it's because I have a crossfire motherboard, and for some reason I have to enter this chip thing which de-activates the top PCI to enable 1 graphics card and give it full speed, so my graphics card is right at the bottom one which is very close to the PSU, could this be the issue?
Thanks.

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Thats because the card uses higher clock speed when running more than one monitor resulting in higher idle temps, i am running dual monitor and clock speeds are 300/1500 (AMD 6870) it's idling at 45c but with single monitor enabled it runs at 35c.

 

[Adisan]

Thats because the card uses higher clock speed when running more than one monitor resulting in higher idle temps.

But surely it shouldn't be running at 56C idle with 3 screens? I friend of mine has 2 screens and his is idle at 26C

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

What clock speeds is the gpu in when running 3 monitors?

 

[Adisan]

What clock speeds is the gpu in when running 3 monitors?

Currently at 500Mhz

 

[Greeny93]

Nothing to worry about here.

As mentioned, the card won't down-clock as much with 2+ monitors... resulting in higher temps

My 7970 runs at 40-45 idle with two monitors... take into mind the closeness to the PSU and i'd say temps are fine !!

Options -

1. Increase the fan profiles, more noise.
2. Get a seperate card/cards for the other monitors ( I use an old geforce 8800 (I think?!) on my second monitor))
3. Do nothing and don't worry

-greeny