XFX HD5850 temps

[andrewdodd13]

So, seeing as I'm planning on grabbing one of these sexy new 7970's in the coming weeks, I figured I might as well tinker with my current 5850 for a bit. It's at stock speeds, everything as it was out-of-the-box shall we say.

Now, I will first state I've never had a problem with this card, but I figured I would run FurMark first just to see what state it got to. Lo and behold, it was idling at 65°C and peaking under load at 92°C! Checking around, this is a bit high - it should be in the 50-80 range.

The only solution I saw was some guy getting ridiculed for using "Auto Mode" on the fans. Time to bump up the fan I guess, so I set it to 80% and watched the idle temps drop to 48°C and under load after 10 minutes it seems to have leveled out at 84°C, a much better temperature I think!

My question though is "Is this normal?" Should I really be having to max out the fan manually to keep it in a decent temperature range? Bearing in mind that this is at stock speeds, I've not touched the volts or clocks yet!

 

[BigRazer93]

No you shouldn't. My 5850 idle's around 46-50c depending if the heating is on, and thats with 21% fan speed!

Either your air flow in your case is shocking, or it just needs taken out of the case, and cleaned with compressed air. If that doesn't work, I would open the card up, clean and repaste it.

Is the card a ref model or a non ref model by the way?

Hope this helps

 

[andrewdodd13]

No you shouldn't. My 5850 idle's around 46-50c depending if the heating is on, and thats with 21% fan speed!

Either your air flow in your case is shocking, or it just needs taken out of the case, and cleaned with compressed air. If that doesn't work, I would open the card up, clean and repaste it.

Is the card a ref model or a non ref model by the way?

Hope this helps

It's a reference model I believe, the standard long case with one fan at the far end. I had it out this morning to give it a good dusting, doesn't seem to have made much difference. I wanted to have the entire case off to give the whole thing a wipe down, but it didn't seem to want to come loose without taking the heatsink off as well.

I do have some spare AS5 that I could put onto the GPU block, is it a dollop in the middle and let the heatsink spread it, or spread it with a card job?

Cheers!

 

[Skynet-T800]

My idle temps are 42ºc fan speed 28%

Load temp 62ºc

 

[andrewdodd13]

My idle temps are 42ºc fan speed 28%

Load temp 62ºc

Your load temp is still way under mine

I reapplied the TIM (the old stuff was a mess, massive buildup at all the sides as well), it now idles at 50°C at 21% fan however from what I've told this card uses faster clocks at idle if you have two or more monitors plugged in, so that might explain that difference. However... under FurMark it's still hitting 88°C, so god only knows what's going on there.

 

[BigRazer93]

2 or more monitors will make the idle clocks higher, therefore 50c is fine at idle.

If your airflow in the case isn't the best, then thats why its hitting high when using furmark.

Try a game that loves the GPU (BF3), and see what temps you get then.

When I play BF3, I OC my card to 850/1200 and set the fan to 43%, and it doesn't go above 80c.