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Is my 5850 overheating?

Bradmax57

Bradmax57

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Ive been having some issues with my 5850, im beginning to think my card is overheating underload but the odd thing is ive just been playing l4d2 demo without any issue exited the game and then thought id do a backup of my current steam games including mw2 preload (if it backs that up?) as soon as the backup started the pc froze and i got a grey screen, cant do anything but restart the pc, when i rebooted and checked temps it was idle at 42c which was a bit high compare to when id tested prior to gaming.

Im at a loss wether to return it or not as the place i got it from doesnt currently have any replacements and the prices are nearly £50 more than when i bought it having said that its not much use as it is.

Ive ramped the fan upto 35% to see if that helps but its rather audiable now :(
 
this is the kind of screen im greeted with :(

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LoadsaMoney said:
Its just one of the many problems with them unfortunately, same as elpedro's here :-

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18077246&page=3

Theres loads faulty. :(
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hmm interesting that he has installed 32bit and it seems fine, also mine appears to be fine for a few days after installing windows then my troubles start, i do recall issues on my last 4850 using vista 64bit, 32bit is pretty much pointless to me tho as i have 6gb ram :( worth trying as a process of elimination i guess.
 
I wonder if lots of these issues are people on 64 bit? i have been using my 5850 on 32bit win 7 for a month and had no issues yet.
 
I got this screen once or twice... When overclocking my CPU. Well, I didn't really bother with this problem as it was gone after a hard-restart. Stressing the card never came up with this issue. I just reckon it has something to do with Windows 7 anyway.
 
i've had that screen once in Win7 x64 but my card was overclocked.

i have a feeling it's a driver issue with Win7 as it appears to happen with lots of people.

also i would leave the fan on default. mine never gets up above 26% fan speed and can't hear it at all
 
That screen looks like the one I was getting when overclocking my 5870 to 900Mhz core on stock voltage, in your case it's probably more to do with when the card is voltage switchng.

You could try upping the core voltage I guess but shouldn't really have to on a stock card, looks like Q&A is not very thorough.
 
mmj_uk said:
That screen looks like the one I was getting when overclocking my 5870 to 900Mhz core on stock voltage, in your case it's probably more to do with when the card is voltage switchng.

You could try upping the core voltage I guess but shouldn't really have to on a stock card, looks like Q&A is not very thorough.
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ditto. so possibly a voltage issue with the overclock. took it all back to stock and works a treat
 
Ive had the same issue wether the card and cpu are stock or overclocked, i may try 32bit just to see if its a 64bit problem, wonder if vista x64 is the same, i do recall problems in the past with ati and 64bit
 
well, "touch wood" ive been fine for the past week i cancelled my RMA as god knows when i would have got a replacement, just installed the 9.11's and have had no issues at all playing l4d2 for a couple of hours, fingers crossed, came out of game and gpu was at 49C up from idle of about 34
 
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