potatorage
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My 7970 is reaching 95 degrees celcius core temperature at 100% load and 100% fan speed. Is there something wrong with my cooler or perhaps my installation?
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High temperatures with Accelero 7970
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Slystealth
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I would say installation went wrong , never seen/heard that unless something is wrong . Might wanna backtrack and see what u did wrong. Or perhaps used to much thermal paste or to little. idk. Goodluck on figuring it out. Don't burn your GPU up be careful cheers
Probably something wrong with the installation. I have the Accelero 7970 on my overclocked 7950 and I've never seen my core go over 60C. The install process is a bit complicated though.
Did you use all of the spacers? The four black ones go on the back of the card, attached to the backplate. You should also have the little black foam square attached to the backplate. The four white spacers should be attached to the front of the card, between the PCB and the main cooler unit.
With all 8 spacers in place on either side of the PCB's screw holes, the included screws should be screwed in as far as they can go. There shouldn't be any gap between the backplate, the black spacers, and the PCB. It will end up compressing the foam pretty tightly against the board (which is fine, it's what it's there for). If you've already done all this, I'd try remounting the cooler, since it sounds like it's not making good contact with the core. Also (obviously) make sure that the fans are turned on and spinning.
Did you use all of the spacers? The four black ones go on the back of the card, attached to the backplate. You should also have the little black foam square attached to the backplate. The four white spacers should be attached to the front of the card, between the PCB and the main cooler unit.
With all 8 spacers in place on either side of the PCB's screw holes, the included screws should be screwed in as far as they can go. There shouldn't be any gap between the backplate, the black spacers, and the PCB. It will end up compressing the foam pretty tightly against the board (which is fine, it's what it's there for). If you've already done all this, I'd try remounting the cooler, since it sounds like it's not making good contact with the core. Also (obviously) make sure that the fans are turned on and spinning.
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Make sure the copper block is tightened properly over the chip. I used the spacers, but the first time for reason I left a gap. I gamed at ~97 degrees for a few hours 
Luckily it was only SC. installation went wrong no doubt, tighten screws for sure. You should be getting less than 65 degrees core temps even at the highest overclocks.
Luckily it was only SC. installation went wrong no doubt, tighten screws for sure. You should be getting less than 65 degrees core temps even at the highest overclocks.