HIS 4870X2 Temperature Issue.
- Thread starter Gashman
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just noticed how much the temperatues plummet when you set the fanspeed to 100% using EXPERTool, but my god the noise, its like a battle between a jet and a squirrel...and the squirrel is loosing! are they all that noisy? 
Yes, they are all that noisy.
This is why I bought an Arctic Cooling Accelero Extreme (could easily hit 104C in L4D with stock cooler).
Noise at 90% fan speed = negligible, quieter than my Sharkoon 120mm fan I've got on my cpu cooler.
Temps Idle = 34-36
Temps Load = Max 65, generally 60 or less.
Had to get it from zee Germans unfortunately.
This is why I bought an Arctic Cooling Accelero Extreme (could easily hit 104C in L4D with stock cooler).
Noise at 90% fan speed = negligible, quieter than my Sharkoon 120mm fan I've got on my cpu cooler.
Temps Idle = 34-36
Temps Load = Max 65, generally 60 or less.
Had to get it from zee Germans unfortunately.
My load temps for my powercolour 4870x2 easily reached 100+ degrees on furmark. I then decided to watercool it. Using a slim double radiator and 2 xilence red wings controlled at rpm I now get furmark load temps at 46 degress max. Since it's only 600 rpm its truly INAUDIBLE.
I used a swiftech slim single rad before and the load temps were around 57-60+ with the same fans around 600 rpm.
I used a swiftech slim single rad before and the load temps were around 57-60+ with the same fans around 600 rpm.
right just noticed something somewhat worrying, the idle temperature of GPU is currently 80.0*C according to GPU-Z, fan speed is 40% and GPU load is 0%, should i be concerned about this?
Yes it is too high. It sounds to me as if the HSF is full of dust.
Strip off the HSF and clean out both heatsinks, they will be full of crud.
Re-apply new TIM and then re-assemble. You should then be getting idle temps between 40c and 45c.
can you think of anyway to shut the fan up, its insanely noisy when the card is under load! was thinking maybe removing stock cooler completely and replacing them with a pair of thermalright V2 copper heatpipe coolers (some reduced to clear somewhere else) and putting an enermax 80mm fan on each one, because the enermax fans i got in here at the minute are almost inaudible even at full tilt and push a decent amount of air?
so anyone think V2, AS5, 80mm (maybe 92mm but not sure how much space there will be) and some better airflow will kill temperatures a fair bit?
little update, dunno if its work mentioning the top GPU (in the list) is idling at 80*C or there abouts, and the second one (second on the list) is idling at 47*C, why on earth is the first GPU almost twice the temperature, could this be a driver bug? or even a dodgy sensor? 
anyone noticed the stock cooler is like, really seriously effective, just put it to 50% and idle for first core is 50*C and second core is 44*C, thats like 30*C drop for the first core! damn the noisy fan though!
anyone noticed the stock cooler is like, really seriously effective, just put it to 50% and idle for first core is 50*C and second core is 44*C, thats like 30*C drop for the first core! damn the noisy fan though!
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GPU-Z has gotta be reading the fan speed wrong, cause its at 45% of maximum at the minute idling at 51/48*C for and its not really very noisy, little noisier than my 8800GTS its replaced but nothing over the top! solution to my problem was to enable ATI overdrive in CCC (not simple compared to NVIDIA one may i add) and manually set the fan speed to 45%. 