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What temp should my 5870 be running at when under full load?

ThundyCat

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Been having BSOD's in battlefield 3, and a friend recommended stress testing my rig. So I downloaded and installed Prime -95 and OCCT. Ran both at the same time and had OCCT set to stress test my GPU.

Within about 5 mins it stopped the GPU test due to the card hitting 85 degrees! With the fan set at 35%

I have changed the fan speed to 45% and now under load the card temp is jumping between 70-72 degrees.

Should I be concerned? Case is the antec1200, so plenty of airflow going through.
 
Nothing wrong with those temps at all in my experience.

Under load both my cards reach mid 80's.

With only 1 card installed it runs on load around mid 70's to early 80's.

What you could do if you were still worried is download MSI Afterburner and create a user-defined fan profile so that the fan will increase at a different rate as the temperature increases. Obviously this is going to create more noise, but in my experience it's a bit of a trade off.
 
I've flashed the BIOS on my 5870 so I could overclock it past ccc limits. With 1000mhz on core at 1.25 volts with the fan set to 50% temps barely go over 50 degrees.
This is in an Antec 900 case with fans on full, whilst gaming and monitored by msi afterburner.
Could your GPU fan be clogged up with dust? Maybe it needs new thermal compound applying.
 
would you not be better off setting up a fan profile using msi afterburner?
that way you can manually set the speed of the fan with the temp of the card.
so as it gets hotter, the fan will speed up as well.
also i prefer Furmark to stress a gpu,

edit.
max temp for a HD 5870 is 105.C, so you have some leeway.
also when was the last time you gave it a good clean? (no offence, in light of who the OP is ;))
my kids have an antec 900 and its a dust magnet, there HD 4770 hit 101.C the other day, playing World of tanks:eek:
i removed the cooler and there was loads of dust in there, now max temp is 60.C :)
 
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it'll be fine @ 70ish

Keep it below 95 and it'll be fine.

If you don't have warranty/don't mind potentially voiding it, you could also reapply the TIM.

Furmark is good for stressing GPU's, but it's ridiculously OTT in most cases.

re custom fan profiles, i personally found that keeping it on auto was quieter.

You might also want to consider getting a third party cooler?

Also, what makes you think it's your gfx card?
 
ThundyCat said:
Been having BSOD's in battlefield 3, and a friend recommended stress testing my rig. So I downloaded and installed Prime -95 and OCCT. Ran both at the same time and had OCCT set to stress test my GPU.

Within about 5 mins it stopped the GPU test due to the card hitting 85 degrees! With the fan set at 35%

I have changed the fan speed to 45% and now under load the card temp is jumping between 70-72 degrees.

Should I be concerned? Case is the antec1200, so plenty of airflow going through.
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Maybe this is off topic... but I have a 5870 like you (rig in sig), and the fan is at 35%. How can I increase the speed so the card doesn't get that hot?

Thanks
 
The easiest way is in AMD's CCC panel, you can manually set the fan to what ever speed you like, then there is MSI Afterburner which you can do the same or set up a custom fan profile, but you need to have Afterburner running at all times iirc, and can cause issues with a couple of games, but not many.
 
Nameless_87 said:
Maybe this is off topic... but I have a 5870 like you (rig in sig), and the fan is at 35%. How can I increase the speed so the card doesn't get that hot?

Thanks
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I tend to leave it on automatic with my xfire 5870's and it never goes beyond what i would consider excessive heat and noise combinations.

However, Afterburner is a great wee tool for setting up a custom fan profile should you find temps are higher than you feel comfortable with. You just goto settigs > fan then tick box for user defined fan settings. Then manually change the graph so that as the temp increases the fan runs at a higher rpm. Then when you come out of settings ensure that the user defined tab next to fanspeed on afterburner is highlighted and you are good to go.
 
A BSOD is more likely to be CPU/Mobo settings than the Cards.... If the Cards fail you should get the GPU recovery, but if the CPU says goodnight, it's goodnight for everything :D

The biggest problem is heat with multiple cards, crank up the fans !
 
ThundyCat,

what I would do is turn off any overclocks I have set and try the game that is causing the problem and see if the problem is still there.

If the problem goes away after removing the overclocks it could mean any new driver updates have made your previous overclock unstable now and it needs redoing.

If it still crashes I would check your RAM with memtest and windows memory checking tool to rule out bad memory.


If the RAM checks out fine, check your voltages while gaming or stress testing the machine, the PSU maybe showing signs it is becoming unstable and some voltages maybe under spec when stressed now. Another thing to try is use the drivers that were working fine before any driver updates. Do all this while not overclocking. Then do the PSU voltage test when you are back to your previous overclock, it may show the PSU can't manage to run the system anymore at that overclock too.


When I had my 5870 the MAX temp I could make it hit in any game was 73-75c and it was still stable and not a problem for the card to run at that temperture. Just to make sure you are not having heat problems try removing the side panel on your case while testing for that game to cause that error. Again if it is stable it could be heat related and you may need to check your CPU temps and system temps. So could be a simple matter of giving the system a good clean and re-applying thermal paste on the CPU. Also mate try running Checkdisk on your OS drive, drive with the game installed on and drive you may have moved you page file to. Run the full checkdisk (put a tick in both option boxes in the Check disk options) and let it test the drive on next windows restart. Could be a drive showing its age too that BSOD error you are seeing. Could be any hardware with BSOD 0x0000009c grr .. you just have to go threw things one by one mate it's a horrible Error code that one, from any unstable hardware to any unstable hardware drivers.


Can you let us know what your system specs are mate and what you have the overclocks set to. Also are any other games causing you this problem ? OHH also stay away from furmark and such tools they only cause more harm then good mate to your graphics cards power circuitry, use something like 3dmark and max the settings on it.
 
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