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Reference 6950 Crazy temps

Looks like no games for me until this is sorted. I just put portal 2 on, and within 10 seconds the temperature was 85 degress at 85% fan speed and counting.
this is at stock settings,so voltage shouldnt have any effect on it - its defualt voltage.
usually it stays at about 65 degrees.
 
Alasdairhurst said:
Looks like no games for me until this is sorted. I just put portal 2 on, and within 10 seconds the temperature was 85 degress at 85% fan speed.
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Maybe the thermal grease somehow got ****ed up?

Dry a driver reinstall to see if drivers are causing the games to fail. It sounds more like a hardware problem though. I suggest you RMA, firstly, run your games with 100% fan and monitor the temps.
 
Cleeecooo said:
Maybe the thermal grease somehow got ****ed up?

Dry a driver reinstall to see if drivers are causing the games to fail. It sounds more like a hardware problem though. I suggest you RMA, firstly, run your games with 100% fan and monitor the temps.
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maybe that's the case.
i'll revet to 11.5b and see what happens.
 
i just uninstalled the drivers and restarted the computer and it was up to 70C before AB had the chance to start. (about 10 seconds from boot)

hmm, there may be a problem with the drivers. whenever install catalyst suite, the visual 2010 redistributable fails to install - the problem has been occuring since then. :\ hmm...

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 RedistributableFinal Status: Fail
Version of Item: 10.0.30319
Size: 9 Mbytes
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everything seemed to work fine though (program wise) except for this temperature problem.

gonna try it on a clean windows installation to try out.
 
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Disable MSI completely, uninstall it if you have to, revert everything to stock, then see what temps are like idle, MSI won't work perfectly with every single combo out there, and it has lots of weird quirks even when it works fine.

Clocks make little difference in temp, voltage makes a big difference.

There are situations in which multi monitors won't enable the higher clock and most people get flickering in this scenario but some people don't, are you sure idle clocks and voltage were the same. Memory won't make much if any difference to temps.

What heatsink do you have on the new cpu vs the old one, is the heat being blown right out of the heatsink into the intake of your gpu, is it closer, have you disabled the chipset gpu properly and its reading the right temps?

Forcing low clocks in Afterburner rarely if ever for me forces the real idle voltage you'd get letting the drivers handle it alone so thats definately the first thing to check.

35 idle and 65 load simply sound very low in the first place for a reference card, unlocked to a 6970 basically(clocks and voltage?). Well okay it doesn't sound bad if it was running at 65% fan speed for 65C, which is insane. I've never run a reference AMD fan past about 40% because its ridiculously loud even by then, above 60 its horrifically loud and theres no need. The cards will happily run at 80c.

What was the weather like with previous temps, my systems running much hotter today than a couple months ago.


As for things for the driver failing to install, generally not a good sign, have you run all the windows updates as there is often updates for Visual in there, it might have failed simply because you had a newer version installed, or it may need a previous upgrade first, who knows.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Disable MSI completely, uninstall it if you have to, revert everything to stock, then see what temps are like idle, MSI won't work perfectly with every single combo out there, and it has lots of weird quirks even when it works fine.
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done. 60degrees and getting hotter.

Clocks make little difference in temp, voltage makes a big difference.
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true, but when i reduced the clocks to minimum it went down to 50
There are situations in which multi monitors won't enable the higher clock and most people get flickering in this scenario but some people don't, are you sure idle clocks and voltage were the same. Memory won't make much if any difference to temps.
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i'm using exactly the same settings as before the problem.

What heatsink do you have on the new cpu vs the old one, is the heat being blown right out of the heatsink into the intake of your gpu, is it closer, have you disabled the chipset gpu properly and its reading the right temps?
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before i had a coolermaster hyper tx-3 blowing air into the back of the case. now i have a H-70 blowing air out of the back of the case.
chipset should be disabled, but i'm not sure. temps are right. my feet are sweating just sitting next to it.



35 idle and 65 load simply sound very low in the first place for a reference card, unlocked to a 6970 basically(clocks and voltage?). Well okay it doesn't sound bad if it was running at 65% fan speed for 65C, which is insane. I've never run a reference AMD fan past about 40% because its ridiculously loud even by then, above 60 its horrifically loud and theres no need. The cards will happily run at 80c.
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with stock settings my pc locks up when it gets to 90 (when i forgot to turn on the custom fan profile)

What was the weather like with previous temps, my systems running much hotter today than a couple months ago.
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a lot cooler than when we had the heatwave last month (worked perfectly then)


As for things for the driver failing to install, generally not a good sign, have you run all the windows updates as there is often updates for Visual in there, it might have failed simply because you had a newer version installed, or it may need a previous upgrade first, who knows.
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every update has installed. that's why i'm trying a clean install as there are a few things messed up with my current one.
 
right. i bit the bullet and opened up the card, wiped the thermal junk off and put some of my own ocz freeze that i had lying about and now its down to 45C @45 fan as before :D
Too bad i had to open the card though - although i was gonna do it anyway with the new cooler.
 
Alasdairhurst said:
right. i bit the bullet and opened up the card, wiped the thermal junk off and put some of my own ocz freeze that i had lying about and now its down to 45C @45 fan as before :D
Too bad i had to open the card though - although i was gonna do it anyway with the new cooler.
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Good choice :p
Glad it's sorted
 
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