Help with my hiS 7950

[Jamesyboyjim]

Hi guys, I currently own THIS HiS 7950 and wanted to see what it could be pushed safely to do, so I had a little play in Overdrive in CCC and simply upped the clock from 800 to 900, no memory increase or power increase, I know they are good clockers so I thought a 100mhz increase shouldnt be much issue, so I hit apply and ran unigine and left it running.

After a while my temps were maxxing out at 79 - 80c which I'm wondering is that too high? I have a bit fenix shinobi xl which doesnt have the best intake in the world but I also have a bottom intake which helps a lot. The card reaches the 70's at stock anyway and it hasn't seemed to be a problem but I don't know what these cards can be ran at? Just wondering if I should even be playing, when temps are already what they are without even touching the memory yet.

 

[dfour]

80 degrees is fine for a modern graphics card. Enjoy the overclocking

 

[Jamesyboyjim]

80 degrees is fine for a modern graphics card. Enjoy the overclocking

Thanx, I read all sorts of conflicting reports when I google temp limits of a 7950, gets me all

hello from bracknell, I'm there aswell

 

[Jamesyboyjim]

Can anyone else add anything?

 

[Doomedspeed]

Your case is the problem..

The XL (as with the original shinobi) has pretty poor airflow..

I feel its something to do with the awful stock fans.. The spectre's have very poor airflow...

Changing the fans for better ones would be my suggestion.. (or get a new case)

That should see temps go down a bit.

Though as said above you temps are safe so you don't need to worry.. Im just giving advice on what i'd do at a later date

 

[OracIe]

As dfour says, 80C is fine.

If you can't cook a steak on it, you aren't overclocking it...

 

[LtMatt]

Use a custom fan profile. The auto fan profile is slack.

Also read this thread.

 

[Jamesyboyjim]

Your case is the problem..

The XL (as with the original shinobi) has pretty poor airflow..

I feel its something to do with the awful stock fans.. The spectre's have very poor airflow...

Changing the fans for better ones would be my suggestion.. (or get a new case)

That should see temps go down a bit.

Though as said above you temps are safe so you don't need to worry.. Im just giving advice on what i'd do at a later date

thanx for the advice all, good to hear that 80c isnt going to cause problems

As for my case, I have added a 120mm Spectre pro as a bottom intake which helps a lot, that front intake is seriously starved!

looking at that link but my HiS card isnt the ice-q version its a more standard looking card.

How would I go about using a custom fan profile? is there a better piece of software you'd adise over simply using the Overdrive tab in CCC?

 

[head5000]

MSI afterburner. Start worrying at 95-100C