Gpu TEMP normal?

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Percy

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Hey all... i just finished building my new RIG, and it was great but to see my GPU temp at around low to mid 80's Celcius kinda bothers me..

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am i doing something wrong? is this temp normal? i tryed searching i couldnt get a thread about temperatures
 
What is your idle temp and does the card underclock itself when fully idle? In your screenshot, you've got 57% GPU usage.

My 4850 idles at between 78C and 80C depending on room temperature. Not sure if the 4870 X2 is supposed to run cooler at idle. Full load temp is supposed to be over 90C for the X2 however.
 
idle is at 80-85 and also GPU activity is always 57% i dont know what the whole thing behind that is .... im going to go return the 4870x2 right now and go buy a 280gtx and try that out andsee how i like it and ill see which one i like.... and end up either returning and coming back to 4870x2 or stick with the 280gtx

more suggestions plz thx
 
cocacoladrunkie said:
idle is at 80-85 and also GPU activity is always 57% i dont know what the whole thing behind that is .... im going to go return the 4870x2 right now and go buy a 280gtx and try that out andsee how i like it and ill see which one i like.... and end up either returning and coming back to 4870x2 or stick with the 280gtx

more suggestions plz thx
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GPU activity should be 0% even when running Aero - only when using Flip3D does GPU activity increase, to 7% on my system. That GPU activity is probably why you're getting so high idle temps. It should be 10C cooler or more at idle according to reviews and the card should idle at lower clockspeeds. You aren't running Dreamscene or something, are you?
 
okay so after i saw that it was over heating or looked like it the only thing i could think of is go return it to frys and get a evga 280 gtx and see how that works after a new format what do you all think i should have done? Should i have changed anything? Those pics were after installing my motherboard cd drivers and 8.9 drivers. Also another thing one of my case doors was open the whole time a havent closed it at all maybe thats why its getting hot? Well i had nothing running in the backround. Do you think i should return the 280 and go get a new 4870x2? Maybe i did something wrong? One last thing when i was installing the cpu i did a thin line down the middle and spread it half way top and bottom should have i done it differently or no? Thanks for your suggestions people
 
nobody ain't got any suggestions??? Come on y'all help a member out LOL
 
use rivatuner 2.11 and turn the fan to around 40. works fine with my 4870x2..tried the autotune didnt seem to overclock it much. there is a feature for doing enabling low-level driver overclock.

have tried both dont seem to effect my framerate much..crysis n warhammer look great although am still not overly chuffed with around 30 fps in a mmo. ;)
 
Your temp was fine, the activity was strangely high though. The card is perfectly fine running at 80c continuous - ATI said that 105C is when you should start worrying about the temp.

Did you try the whole uninstall drivers + driver sweeper + reinstall drivers routine?
 
my 4870x2 ran mid 80's idle at 0 percent activity, would overheat in games, get 106+c I had to manually change the fan speed in order to keep it cool. Was a driver nightmare also with the 4870x2, returned it after a couple weeks of f'in with it.
 
I suppose there are different kinds of solutions like the Zalman VF1000, Thermalright HR-03 with a Nexus 92mm fan or an Accelero with a 120mm Noctua fan.

Personally I'd go with the Thermalright HR-03 and Nexus 92mm fan because you can install it both ways and replace the fan if something is wrong with it. The Accelero won't even fit inside a desktop case like the Silverstone LC20.
 
cocacoladrunkie, did you install ATI drivers from a CD that came with your video card and then install 8.9 drivers? If so, did you completely remove the first video drivers you installed before installing 8.9?
 
so what i ended up doing is i returned the Geforce 280gtx cause i still think i had a bad Visiontek 4870x2 so i bought another and what ended up happening was the first purchase of the 4870x2 was bad because now my idle temp is around 61-63 and at 0% activity so everything is well.. so far now to test out some games :) im very excited lol
 
now after doing app installs and random stuff here and there i wanted to check my vid card temp again.... it now is at 86C from 61-64 C not doing anything at all no games just web browsing and downloading and installing apps is this normal??? but GPU activity is at 0.
 
cocacoladrunkie said:
now after doing app installs and random stuff here and there i wanted to check my vid card temp again.... it now is at 86C from 61-64 C not doing anything at all no games just web browsing and downloading and installing apps is this normal??? but GPU activity is at 0.
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4850s are insanely hot. Go google the fan speed profile thing, create a profile for higher fan speed and it'll most likely cool of.
 
If You've just doing some gaming here and there then that's normal, just wait for a few minutes, Your temp should drop to 60-70 c if not 61-64 c again.
 
but dude thats the thing i just Installed windows again after removing my 280gtx and putting the 4870 i have no games im only installing apps now not even running them.. and it jumped to 85 C now its showing 57% GPU Activity on idle not doing jack shit after i just rebooted... this is very strange has this occured to anybody yet? im clueless and im going nuts.... 2nd time 2nd video card.!
 
So i decided to goto http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60232 and make a profile and set the idle fan speed to 35% and it decreased it from 85-87 to 63-67 now gpu activity still shows 57% is this a bug? is anyone experiencing this at all? applications that i have installed are as follows ASUS Motherboard drivers which were on the cd that came with it. AIM, Daemon tools, mirc, u torrent, mozilla firefox, steam, and speedfan, and antivirus.. thats it... and im pretty sure none of those are effecting it.any suggestions? for this matter?
 
wow so random.... i just installed 3dmark06 and ran it..... i went back to catalyst center after it was done ...... it shows now 0% Gpu activity? possibly BUG???
 
play a game - does it perform as it should? If so, then its probably just an activity bug (seeing as it has been 57% both times, that seems likely)

The temps are a *bit* high, but not unreasonable.
 
i increased my fan speed via the profile method to 35% instead of 27% i believe which was default.... and now im getting 62-66 idle. which i guess is good.... i wonder what everyone else was getting at default fan speed..
 
after setting my fan speed to 35% idle temps are around 48-55 which is good and the gpu activity issue is most likely a bug cause when i opened a game and left the game... gpu activity went to 0%
 
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