HD2900XT temps

[Magnum_Force]

Ok, I know this has probably been discussed before, but what are peoples idle and load temps with these cards and at what fan speed?? (and what Catalyst driver version your using).

I'm currently idling at 63c (ish) at 31% fan speed, it's not THAT audible but slowly gets on my nerves.

I drop the fanspeed to 27% (inaudible) using ATITOOL and my idle temps start to rise .

I've reseated the cooler using AS5. Surely this should drop the temps abit??.

Also, can people say whether they have a 3 heatpipe or 2 heatpipe cooler. Mines the the 2 pipe version .

Just to add, I'm using 7.8 Cats

 

[Magnum_Force]

http://www.game-addicts.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/ati-smackdown.jpg

If you look at the link you can just about see that the HSF has 3 heatpipes instead of 2.

On another note, my idle temps in AMD GPU clock tool are always lower than ATITOOL. Infact, I idle at about 51c in AMD clock tool, but when I fire up ATITOOL, my idle temp starts to rise.

I'm pretty sure ATITOOL is raising my temps somehow.