So I've just installed a brand new Sapphire 6870 in my system (Quad core, Vista 64, 8gigs ram, Corsair 620HX power supply). Card seems to work, card fan is going. I try a couple of 'easier' games to push.... WoW, Borderlands. Seems to work fine for the most part. Then I try Crysis and after about 5 minutes my machine completely shuts down. Thats not good. Try again and same thing. Try Crysis Warhead and aafter about 5 minutes same result. Then I go back to Borderlands and after a few minutes of playing I alt-tab back to my desktop and check the Catalyst Control Centre and its reporting a Graphic card temp of 98 degrees(!!!). That strikes me as.... very high. So I'm playing around with the Catalyst control centre and try varying my fan speed from 20% to a max of 100% and honestly it looks to me like there is no change in the actual fan speed... no visible change that I can detect, no audible change (would expect the noise to increase) and putting my fingers to the back of the vent I cant detect an air output change either.
Anyone else have a new 6870 and able to tell me whether they can tell if fan changes using the control panel (going from min of 20% to max of 100%) seem to make a difference? Ie can you hear an audible difference/feel a difference in air output?
Very frustrating coming from a bulletproof 3year old 8800GT to having problems with this card immediately after installation.
Anyone else have a new 6870 and able to tell me whether they can tell if fan changes using the control panel (going from min of 20% to max of 100%) seem to make a difference? Ie can you hear an audible difference/feel a difference in air output?
Very frustrating coming from a bulletproof 3year old 8800GT to having problems with this card immediately after installation.