Ok, most of the people who have the HIS version of the card are reporting a loud fan which seems to be either on or off. Now ive spoke to a few people with the Sapphire edition who have reported the card to be silent both idle and gaming, could there possibly be some sort of fan issue with the HIS model (Its happened a lot in the past with HIS) and the Sapphire model, or could it simply be a case of the HIS versions BIOS fan settings been coded wrong. Gibbo if your about perhaps you can shed some light on this and contact HIS about it?, It seems its just the HIS versions that have the exessive noise. And Gibbo didnt experience it with his OEM sample. Could it be a case of an RMA or a future software fix, something dosn't seem right.
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HIS HD2900XT Fan Issue?
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Ulfhedjinn said:First X1950Pro IceQ 3 now this? Not HIS's year is it.
Sure isnt. It's odd because all the cards are the same design/fan right atm?, and they all seem to have the same bios revision atm, perhaps HIS fiddled with the fan settings so that effectively there version of the card runs cooler than others??
Aye the ICEQ3 was a joint thing between HIS and Arctic Cooling I think, but I'm pretty sure they're using the reference cooler now so really there's no reason only HIS cards should be having problems.Tom|Nbk said:
What you said about HIS fiddling with the fan settings could be right though, and easily solved with a BIOS flash.
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Exactly which leaves me only to believe that HIS fiddled with the fan settings to make the card run cooler than other partners, it's the only logical explanation, perhaps Gibbo can contact them and see if this was the case. If it was means that I could simply flash to the Sapphire bios.
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If you can get a dump of the Bios on the sapphire and flash the HIS maybe that will fix it?
I would imagine both cards to be identical.
Just a thought
I would imagine both cards to be identical.
Just a thought
Managed to catch the noise, at the start you can tell its idle then when I load up a 3D game you can hear the fan starting soon after, it then continues perpetually throughout gaming, and then stops when i exit a 3D app as you can hear from the sound file.
Here you go..
http://download.yousendit.com/3FA0D2BE6B00F65F
Be interested to hear if this is what other HIS owners are getting and wheather any other brand owners have ever had anything like this...
Here you go..
http://download.yousendit.com/3FA0D2BE6B00F65F
Be interested to hear if this is what other HIS owners are getting and wheather any other brand owners have ever had anything like this...
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Guru3D's got a sound file to download of how loud their x2900's go in their crossfire review of em, jesus they are loud, but those are Jetway cards not HIS, and you can tell its fan issue, as they dont gradually pick up like normal, as as soon as he fires the game up they just instantly ramp up, like a hair dryer when you flick from speed 1 to 2 (or low to high), its instant.
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Tom what the avg temp of your card under full load ???Tom|Nbk said:
And xtr3eme what the avg temp of your card under full load ???xtr3eme said:I have the Sapphire 2900XT and it is both silent @ idle and gaming.
And is there any fan speed monitoring in any software for the xt2900HD yet ??
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My his card is just the same, low sound when idle, then when in 3D it spins up to a consistant fairly loud noise, i don't know if this card is going 100% fan speed when in 3D but i do know that if other cards are quite when in 3D, they aint getting properly cooled. My other cards were the same, a x1800xt and x1950xt, the fans wouldn't really kick in until like 70c so i used ati tool to adjust the speed by temperature and my card never went above 60c, yeah it was loud but my cards were cooled real nice when compared to stock fan speeds. I guess we just have to wait to get some third party software like ati tool to check the fan speeds out our selves, i will say that even when i overcock, the temps on my hiss card never realy change more than a few degress.
I think his have basically set it so when the clocks are in 2D mode the fan is on a low speed and when you hit 3D it ramps up to 100%, which i dont mind.
You need to have an eight pin PCIE cable plugged in to the eight pin socket on the 2900 to get overdrive and the temps up.
I think his have basically set it so when the clocks are in 2D mode the fan is on a low speed and when you hit 3D it ramps up to 100%, which i dont mind.
You need to have an eight pin PCIE cable plugged in to the eight pin socket on the 2900 to get overdrive and the temps up.
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the early drivers have graduating fan increases in speed, the latest drivers have screwed fan settings and only have two fan speeds, slow and essentially silent or full whack. full whack should come on around 70c (amd gpu tool to check temp and overclock) and is loud, but not as bad as a 7800/x1900xtx on full whack. unfortunately there isn't(i don't think) any way to directly control the fan speed right now, but ati tool i believe is on the way to a beta version that works with the series of cards which might sort it out. older drivers you can use and the next set which should be 3-4 days away should have a fix for it also.
from watching temps i have silent fan up to 70C, then fan kicks in a couple seconds later, once it kicks in temps usually come back down to around 65-68c under load but the fan doesn't reduce speed under 70c till you drop out of 3d, even between 3dmark tests it slows down), it definately does not need the full fan speed to remain stable and easily some setting in between will be pretty damned quiet and also keep card plenty cool.
from watching temps i have silent fan up to 70C, then fan kicks in a couple seconds later, once it kicks in temps usually come back down to around 65-68c under load but the fan doesn't reduce speed under 70c till you drop out of 3d, even between 3dmark tests it slows down), it definately does not need the full fan speed to remain stable and easily some setting in between will be pretty damned quiet and also keep card plenty cool.