GPU overheating

[jaycubmiller]

Lately my GPU seems to be frying itself after 1 hour + of gameplay. Its a 7850 and I regularly play TW2 on Ultra (without that one AA setting I forget which one) for up to 3 hours without any problem. I found for whatever reason my fan was locked at 20% fixed that but still around the 2 hour mark I'm running close to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Is there a certain graphical setting that I can lower to relief some stress on my GPU that wont effect visuals too much?

 

I moved my case out in the open and it has 7 fans in total so cooling should be covered pretty good. I really hate ENB's but I'm using sweetfx, vanilla settings all on ultra, and all the good lighting/texture/mesh mods.

[freddy_farnsworth]

Find out if the fan is 12v or 5v, and just run the leads from to to a extra PS connector.

Or goto http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ ond get the utility.

 

In it is a icon next to the bios string, that will rip the bios to drive for the card.

 

They have a editor you can use to reset the fan to 100% constant. or even reset the temps it goes full at. edit the bios and reflash it.

 

Seems a lot of cards are way to worried bout noize. and allow overheat gpu (planned Obsolesence?? Keep it cool it will last years and years, oveheat it bout 1 year and it is done, crispy silicon.

 

freddy

[prod80]

82 degrees Celcius should not be an issue. My card runs around 78 C under load ... I doubt 4 C makes a problem.

In general problems ( crashes ) occur well above the 100 C mark ( 212 F + )

Gfx cards run a lot hotter than a CPU, this has always been the case. Dont confuse the 2 and think they should run at more or less the same temps. Your pretty much running fine.

[ripple]

You can use the Catalyst Control Manager or MSI Afterburner to up the fan speed when you play Skyrim. 20% is pretty low. My 7850 habitually hovers around 60 degrees Celcius and 50% fan speed during Skyrim.

[bben46]

Is it possible that you have the fan plugged into a 5v supply instead of a 12 V supply? It will still run, but at a very reduced speed. As far as I know, any Motherboard header marked 'fan' should be +12v DC. A fan connector should be 3 pins in order to read the speed back.

 

You can also get an adapter to plug the fan directly into one of the molex type connectors on your power supply that will give a constant 12v with no slow downs, but you will not be able to see the speed with a fan speed program.

[jaycubmiller]

Is it possible that you have the fan plugged into a 5v supply instead of a 12 V supply? It will still run, but at a very reduced speed. As far as I know, any Motherboard header marked 'fan' should be +12v DC. A fan connector should be 3 pins in order to read the speed back.

 

You can also get an adapter to plug the fan directly into one of the molex type connectors on your power supply that will give a constant 12v with no slow downs, but you will not be able to see the speed with a fan speed program.

No I have been using AMD VISION CC for turning my fan speed to 60 wile playing skyrim and it helped alot im just getting close to 100 after prolonged play. every other game hovers around 60 with 40% fan speed.

[Georgiegril]

Just a thought from an Nvidia card user...a while back Nvidia released a driver update that caused problems with some users losing control of their fans. Just a thought,,,have you updated your drivers lately? Maybe you could try a clean reinstall or rolling back, in case you are facing a similar issue?