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X1900 XTX tempretures and fan

saguy

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X1900 XTX temperatures and fan

What sort of temperatures are your cards running at when under full load - what should they be. I ask because I was having problems with overheating due to the lousy job Catalyst Control Center performs controlling the fan speed. I have had my card for 2 weeks and twice in this period has the overheating alarm come on while playing Oblivion.

The fan speed appears to be all or nothing. The temps were climbing over 90 and only then would the fan speed increase. I have sorted this out by deactivating the catalyst control of the fan in the windows services - Ati polling (something like that) I have installed Ati Tool and have manually set incremental fan speeds based on temperature. When installing Ati Tool make sure that you set the correct clocks and voltages for your card as they will default to the lower 2d settings. My full load temps have been lowered considerably so I have overclocked the card to 680 and 1590 with temps maxing out at 71. The fan is louder but it is not really a problem as my PC is fairly loud anyway and I use closed headphones.
 
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The $6m Dan said:
Mine gets up to around 80 degrees using the stock cooler.
That's with it overclocked to 680 on the Core and 790 on the memory.
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How are you controlling the fan speed - Ati Tools or Catalyst Control Center.

I would like to know the temperatures for standard CCC setups and not for those of us that are using third party utilities to control the fan or cards that are water cooled. This is the first card that I have had overheating problems when running at default settings – my case has fairly good air flow.

What is a safe temperature to keep within – is 71 ok considering that my temps were previously over 85 under full load.
 
I'm using the CCC for everything - Overclocks, temp monitoring and fan control (which has been left at the default settings)
I was going to use ATi tool, but it told me that I couldn't have a 2D clock setting, so decided against it.

The fan speeds are the default ones that the CCC sets, but I want to change it slighlty. At the moment the temps rise and the fan speeds up. This causes the GPU to cool down and the fan speed then drops. The fan speed changes every couple of minutes and is slightly annoying, so I'm going to set it to kick in to the higher fan speed at a lower temp.
 
Before i put my waterblock on,mine was running up to 80C,don't think it should be any concern at all at that sort of temp
 
Don't have an X1900 myself, but an X1800. I'd suggest downloading a program like ATi Tool so you can modify the fan and how it spins up at what temperatures. If there's a certain tempereature which you don't want your card getting to just make sure that the fan spins up a decent amount before it gets to that point.
 
Hmm thanks you all just sorted one of the things i was about to ask :)

I have an Xfire system with two X1900XTX's i thought they where running very hut (about 40c idle, upto 60-65 under full load for any length of time) I did try overclocking the master card the other day but bottled it when i saw it hit 80c as i thought the thing was going to melt! Seems this is normal though. I'm currently using CCC to control everything but will download ATi tool again and try it with that to see if it helps (noise isnt a problem at the moment if it runs a lot faster :) ).

Just need to find the thread i saw the other day about how to overclock both cards in a xfire system.
 
I checked a few reviews of x1900 xtx's and it appears they all run at about 85 under full load. It seems very high to me so everyone would be better off using Ati Tool and controlling fan speed manually.
 
i should be finished with sorting out my stable CPU and memory clocking tonight so will start on the graphics cards then :) It does seem CCC doesnt kick in with 100% fan speed until the temps get really high (85c>).

Im going to have a play with ATI tools to try and cool my cards a little bit better as they are making my CPU run a few degrees hotter then they should (and if i can cool the CPU by 4 or 5C then i will be more happy about running it at 2.7ghz 24/7 :) ).
 
My x1900xt-x temps.

95c using Zalman VF900-CU in silent mode..
And about 85c with the fan at full speed..Zalman VF900-CU
 
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chaparral said:
My x1900xt-x temps.

95c using Zalman VF900-CU in silent mode..
And about 85c with the fan at full speed..Zalman VF900-CU
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Have you overclocked and if so, how much. If you have not overclocked your temps seem to be very high. How are you controlling the fan speed.
 
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