Sorry guys, I see a lot of information on overclocking temps not too much on stock. I have not overclocked my card or done anything to it as it plays the games I like well enough to please me and my time these days is limited.
My 5850 fan started grinding so I fired up Hardware Monitor to make sure things were ok, but as the noise got worse I decided I had better do something about it.
Did a bit of research and ended up deciding I didnt need much more than stock would provide and didnt want to spend $50 on a cooler and Arctic Cooling has always served me well.
Anyway, I ended up buying an Accelero L2 Plus for under $30 and have been nothing but disappointed. After 4 hours the thermal paste was not even close to setting up, and I had been reading that other people left the stock cooling plate on so I pulled them off and clean ed up as much of the goop as I could and put the stock plate on with the Accelero L2.
I have more tools installed than I started with so I dont have much to compare before and after with, but they are definitely higher that they used to be. On top of that Hardware Monitor has a pretty big difference between the 2 temps with one being 60 and the other being 85.
I was hoping someone could take a look and either tell me if I should be worried or not, I think its pretty hot, but I have read many people say these can go pretty hot.
I have bumped the fan speed up to 100 and it really made no difference.
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My 5850 fan started grinding so I fired up Hardware Monitor to make sure things were ok, but as the noise got worse I decided I had better do something about it.
Did a bit of research and ended up deciding I didnt need much more than stock would provide and didnt want to spend $50 on a cooler and Arctic Cooling has always served me well.
Anyway, I ended up buying an Accelero L2 Plus for under $30 and have been nothing but disappointed. After 4 hours the thermal paste was not even close to setting up, and I had been reading that other people left the stock cooling plate on so I pulled them off and clean ed up as much of the goop as I could and put the stock plate on with the Accelero L2.
I have more tools installed than I started with so I dont have much to compare before and after with, but they are definitely higher that they used to be. On top of that Hardware Monitor has a pretty big difference between the 2 temps with one being 60 and the other being 85.
I was hoping someone could take a look and either tell me if I should be worried or not, I think its pretty hot, but I have read many people say these can go pretty hot.
I have bumped the fan speed up to 100 and it really made no difference.
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