what is your case cooling like. there is a shit ton of heat coming off the pcb and if its heating up your case then that's the same air being circulated back into the video card.
Processors Information
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Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
Codename Windsor
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+
Package Socket AM2 (940)
CPUID F.3.3
Extended CPUID F.43
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping JH-F3
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 3207.5 MHz (16.0 x 200.5 MHz)
HT Link speed 1002.3 MHz
Stock frequency 3200 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
max FID 16.0x
max VID 1.450 V
Features XD, VT
K8 Thermal sensor yes
K8 Revision ID 5.3
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3
83'c should make the back plate of the video card cooler almost impossible to touch. if you can press your fingers to it for a few seconds, its possible that the card is reporting the wrong temps to catalyst.
I just put my fingers on the videocard vent and its fine , pretty warm but i can rub it fine with no burning skin heh
With case side off its at 73c
Just found a decent extra fan , gonna see if it helps
yikes a 4870x2 with a 6400 X2? what res are you playing at because you are likely bottlenecking the crap out of that card. depending on the res in some games you could literally be getting almost the same framerate with a single 4870. sorry this doesnt help with your issue but unless you are playing games at 2560 then that 4870x2 is way more card than your cpu is capable of feeding.
Yes I just opened the case and holy 'blank' it was hot. I just put in large fan to pull heat away from videocard to my bedroom. Its down to 78c . Jesus
Games work fine but I was always wondering why I got flickering , thought it was only due to Catalyst AI but maybe it was too hot.
This is idle mind ya , no load cept for a couple tray apps (Daemon Tools , Network Magic , Anydvd ect but no games.
Should I contact HIS?
If you have the tools, you might want to dremel out a side hole for a fan or two, once blowing air onto the CPU, one blowing air onto the video card cage.
When I put a side fan on my case, it dropped temps significantly.
I have excellent air flow in my case, but my X2 has recently having the same temp issue. Mine is currently idling at 84c @ 35% fan speed. I can't play any games right now without it kicking to 100% fan to try to cool it down.