Msi Afterburner Auto Fan Or Manual Fan setting?

[shankly1985]

What do you guys use? Any one have a HD7950 or HD7970 and use manual settings? Can you get a Gpu temp lower by doing the fan speed yourself?
Or is it best to just let the card do its thing?

Lots of questions I know

 

[OptimaLnrg]

I leave my on the default auto as I don't game while overclocked atm.

For benching I set them to constant 100%

 

[Orcvader]

Stock or overclocked, I always creat a custom fan profile. Fan is too loud during idle, and when gaming I don't mind the extra loudness, which also means better temps during load.

 

[shankly1985]

I have mine OC @1005/1500 In BF3 I get a nice 61C but just been playing sleeping Dogs and I hit 72C Alan wake also the same.
Was thinking If I set a manual speed will it reduce that a lot?

@Orcvader What profile you got setup?

Oh and idea speed is perfect at just 20% Just about hear it.

 

[LtMatt]

What do you guys use? Any one have a HD7950 or HD7970 and use manual settings? Can you get a Gpu temp lower by doing the fan speed yourself?
Or is it best to just let the card do its thing?

Lots of questions I know

Here are the settings i use for my 7970 reference.

This is a balance between noise and performance as i heavily overclock my card.

Highest ive seen it go is 76c so far in this heat.

If i was running @ stock volts and clocks i wouldn't need to go above 50% fan speed to keep temps below 75c, which is pretty quiet.

 

[Orcvader]

Not a very nice one at the moment, had to change it to a more aggressive one due to summer heat:

 

[LtMatt]

Not a very nice one at the moment, had to change it to a more aggressive one due to summer heat:

Holy crap that must be loud.

What volts and overclock are you running?

 

[Orcvader]

Holy crap that must be loud.

What volts and overclock are you running?

It's not actually as loud as I thought it would be, everything is usually 10% less but this summer was... well, hot. 92c when playing SC2 made me panic like crazy.

And just 1ghz on the core with stock volts, my case is crap for airflow around the GPU too, I wanted a small compact build .

 

[shankly1985]

Just run Heaven DX11 Benchmark 3.0 On the Fan profile Msi AB gives you and max temps where 68C @70% speed.
Before am sure It used to hit 70 odd.

Will do some more testing tomorrow when I have time and see If I can get lower temps.

 

[Orcvader]

Since it's cooler, here we go, back to normal custom profile :

This one gives me 75c max on Heaven.

 

[shankly1985]

Here are the settings i use for my 7970 reference.

This is a balance between noise and performance as i heavily overclock my card.

Highest ive seen it go is 76c so far in this heat.

If i was running @ stock volts and clocks i wouldn't need to go above 50% fan speed to keep temps below 75c, which is pretty quiet.

Thanks That looks good, but what happens if your card gets really hot? You wont get 100% fan will you?

 

[LtMatt]

It's not actually as loud as I thought it would be, everything is usually 10% less but this summer was... well, hot. 92c when playing SC2 made me panic like crazy.

And just 1ghz on the core with stock volts, my case is crap for airflow around the GPU too, I wanted a small compact build .

Blimey mate 92c? Your card must have a lazy default profile.

Mind you, mine isnt much better. If i use the stock profile with stock clocks ive seen temps go up to the low 80's.

 

[shankly1985]

Since it's cooler, here we go, back to normal custom profile :

This one gives me 75c max on Heaven.

That looks better lol

 

[LtMatt]

Thanks That looks good, but what happens if your card gets really hot? You wont get 100% fan will you?

It doesn't get that hot unless something is wrong.

Plus i have afterburner overlay running when i play games. It enables me to watch temps, voltage, clock speeds, fps and memory usage. Fascinating stuff for the gpu geek inside.

If you have a 7970 reference i think ive nailed my settings for this card.

When i go extreme overclock for benchmarking i stick 100% fan noise on and put on my ear muffs.

Yeah, i wear ear muffs, what of it?

 

[Orcvader]

Blimey mate 92c? Your card must have a lazy default profile.

It was with the fan profile I had in post #10, usually I get around mid 70s (mid 60s with SC2) but during the month before we was seeing 30c room temp... it greatly affected my PC temps as well...

 

[LtMatt]

It was with the fan profile I had in post #10, usually I get around mid 70s (mid 60s with SC2) but during the month before we was seeing 30c room temp... it greatly affected my PC temps as well...

Sounds like you live in a sweat box.

I can just imagine 'its getting hot in here' blasting out of your hi-fi.

 

[cyanide5000]

92! my bike dosent even get that hot at 14k RPM in summer!

 

[shankly1985]

It doesn't get that hot unless something is wrong.

Plus i have afterburner overlay running when i play games. It enables me to watch temps, voltage, clock speeds, fps and memory usage. Fascinating stuff for the gpu geek inside.

If you have a 7970 reference i think ive nailed my settings for this card.

When i go extreme overclock for benchmarking i stick 100% fan noise on and put on my ear muffs.

Yeah, i wear ear muffs, what of it?

But what happens if something does go wrong will you fry your card?

 

[LtMatt]

But what happens if something does go wrong will you fry your card?

Well, yes but i think thats unlikely to happen. 100% fan speed is not destined to save a card that can't be saved at 70%. The cooling difference between them is not huge tbh.

If you knew how loud 100% fan speed was you'd never suggest it.

 

[Orcvader]

Try hearing a XFX cooler at 100%... that's on a completely different level .

Luckily Sapphire coolers are quieter *pats 7950*