Worth a look - see my old 4890!

danceforfreedom · 8 Dec 2010 at 20:58

Says something about the postal services

LOL. True, there was extra bubble wrap, the large stuff with big bubble's, 2 layers of it wrapped around the outside of the box, and some of those air cusions that i got with my mobo inside! Although Vietnam is a treck away, heard it can be a bit of a rocky road!

Nomad_ · 10 Dec 2010 at 02:15

Hello guys, James gave me link of this thread so here I am

. Let's take a look my newest photos below.

I can see you James :rolleyes:

danceforfreedom · 10 Dec 2010 at 02:51

Hey Joe. NIce to see you. What was the rest of your system built with?

arc@css · 10 Dec 2010 at 04:17

Welcome to the forums.

Nice work there.

Agitator · 10 Dec 2010 at 12:24

Hello there,welcome to our world..

remy87 · 10 Dec 2010 at 14:11

Du ma. Great job lol
A fellow vietnamese here
Are you located around HCM?
Just been there recently and it was hot 30c+ every day
You must have AC running all day.

muon · 10 Dec 2010 at 15:42

Nomad, on gpu-z there are more temperature sensors. you have to scroll down on the sensors tab. These will be for the VRMs and I have a feelng they are at dangerous levels when you run OCCT. When I ran a set up with an AC S1 + sinks for VRMs + 2 120mm fans, I found the VRMs would reach 120C with furmark and even higher if the voltage was increased.

Such high temperatures would mean volt modding would be out of the question, which is a shame since 1ghz is entirely possible with a small voltage bump.

Nomad_ · 14 Dec 2010 at 00:16

ghost101 said:
Nomad, on gpu-z there are more temperature sensors. you have to scroll down on the sensors tab. These will be for the VRMs and I have a feelng they are at dangerous levels when you run OCCT. When I ran a set up with an AC S1 + sinks for VRMs + 2 120mm fans, I found the VRMs would reach 120C with furmark and even higher if the voltage was increased.

Such high temperatures would mean volt modding would be out of the question, which is a shame since 1ghz is entirely possible with a small voltage bump.

yeah, it reached 120C and little above? I guess maybe a bios flash may help.

danceforfreedom said:
Hey Joe. NIce to see you. What was the rest of your system built with?

Hi James, how you doing these days? I'm running the card with i7 920 D0 proc, Asus P6T SE mobo, and a pair of Mushkin Blackline RAM. My PSU is Tagan BZ700, cpu cooler is Scythe Ninja 2 which I got from a guy from UK, too :rolleyes:

remy87 said:
Du ma. Great job lol
A fellow vietnamese here
Are you located around HCM?
Just been there recently and it was hot 30c+ every day
You must have AC running all day.

Yeah, it's above 30C everyday. Unfortunately, my room doesn't have an AC :mad:

danceforfreedom · 14 Dec 2010 at 06:24

I get readings like that. Here's my 5850 temp idle

Here's half an hour into furmark with extreme burn and post effects on...

I didn't think there should be so much difference between the different temp readings, another guy had a difference of about 5c idle and 10c max different under stress. I ran my fingers all along the top of the card, it stang but I didnt actually feel that much difference, im sure if it were 120c I would have really noticed and it would have done more than stang. I didn't know what to think!

muon · 14 Dec 2010 at 14:07

Reseat the heatsink. I believe the 3 sensors are in different parts of the gpu. That sensor could also be faulty or miscalibrated.

Also the heatsink only gets hot if it is effectively taking the heat away. No way a gpu could heat both itself and the heatsink to 120C with the fan running. Think about how a heatsink works.

Nomad_ said:
yeah, it reached 120C and little above? I guess maybe a bios flash may

As for Nomad, arent you worried about burning your VRMs at 120C+. I personally went back to the stock setup. I could perform voltmods without the VRMs going above 100C.

Tomcat825 · 14 Dec 2010 at 14:15

Haha, that's brilliant. Well done

danceforfreedom · 14 Dec 2010 at 15:28

Think il give reseating the heatsink a go, its a brand new card. I didn't feel that much difference along the card by touch but i will see if it makes a difference.

muon · 14 Dec 2010 at 15:31

danceforfreedom said:
Think il give reseating the heatsink a go, its a brand new card. I didn't feel that much difference along the card by touch but i will see if it makes a difference.

Remember when I say gpu, i mean the actual chip at the centre of the card. All 3 sensors are on that and so it wont result in temperature diffences across the heatsink.

danceforfreedom · 14 Dec 2010 at 15:48

All three sensors are on the mane chip and all readings from this?

I thought the main reading was from this and the others were from memory and such!!?

muon · 14 Dec 2010 at 15:56

danceforfreedom said:
All three sensors are on the mane chip and all readings from this?

I thought the main reading was from this and the others were from memory and such!!?

Nope. W1zzard, the creator of gpu-z said its all from the actual gpu. Thats why I said reseating might work, and also why temperature differences should be minimal.

VRM temps, labelled as such on hd4xxx cards and missing on hd5xxx, are from elsewhere.

danceforfreedom · 14 Dec 2010 at 16:19

Ahh I see, thats what made me question my reading in the first place. As I noticed in another thread and with my last card theres was only a max difference of around 10c with the different temp readings but with this card over 40c difference under load. Seriously makes me thinks its a dodgy reading, as its over 50% more than the lower readings and don't see how this can be if from the same chip.

But I will see what re seating the heatsink does and if nothing probably dismiss it as a dodgy reading as I can touch above the main chip on the topside of the card for a few seconds with no more than a hot sting, im sure 120c would actually cook my finger!

powelly · 14 Dec 2010 at 16:29

wow that rig looks good

scrlk · 14 Dec 2010 at 16:52

Aaah, Vietnamese ingenuity as its best!

EDIT: (another Vietnamese here, family left S. Vietnam after '75 and came here!)

Nomad_ · 20 Dec 2010 at 21:49

Hey James, I intended to try Crossfire a pair of HD4890. A Diamond HD4890 arrived last week, but as you see, the Sapphire one is too big

, then I decided to sell that Diamond 4890 to an other guy.
That Diamond one just has a reference cooler, but it amazed me with its low temps, take a look:

I changed my sound card to X-Fi Elite Pro which I purchased from a guy from UK, too. And the Airflow Corsair Ram fan I took from Ebay US

By the way, what settings at Furmark will make graphics card run extremely hot?

danceforfreedom · 20 Dec 2010 at 23:47

Yup, the 4890 I sold you was a triple slot design, mostly because of the heatsinks, and with those chunky fans you placed on it probably a little bigger now. I don't know the last time I took the heatsinks off, you could put some thermal paste on the underneath of them and that will reduce your temps by quite a bit.

I noticed you bought a Asus Crosshair II board, those are geared up for Trifire so would work with that...but looking like a good system you've built so far.

The Furmark settings you are looking for are the stability test with 'xtreme burn mode' and 'post effects'. Those will push your card.