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touzeen

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OK so I just got my Powercolor 6850.Was playing Starcraft II for about 2 hrs,everything fine.
Then wanted to try out MSI's Afterburner App,so ran it and checked the temps.Was getting IDLE TEMP:51-52 degrees C.Loaded Kombuster and ran the standard test and Temp jumps to 85-86 deg. within a minute.
Manually set the Fan Speed to 100% and re run Kombuster and get the same results.
Now i think this is clearly not right?
All freq. at stock.
CPU Ventilation adequate .Fan running well.
Im guessing the heatsink isnt properly seated on the GPU?Or are these normal temps?
Anything else I should check?
 
Please look at CCC Overdrive and see if the fans are kicking in to high RPM when you stress it. If not, re-do your latest drivers, else RMA it. Even for normal gaming, your heat is far far too much.
 
CA50 said:
mate the GPU was working fine untill OP ran msi afterburn, so is the gpu faulty :S
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The OP has vaguely mentioned:

Was playing Starcraft II for about 2 hrs,everything fine.
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Which doesn't really qualify that the 'GPU was working fine' from the installation. There are no crashes evident as yet from whatever little info he has posted. His GPU is overheating going by those temperatures.

Download and run the latest GPU-Z and take a note of the temperatures in one of the tabs. The temperature reported by MSI Afterburner could be incorrect. If GPU-Z shows the same temperature, then like I said before get it replaced. 90'C on loads aren't the safe temperatures for this GPU anyway.

On a side note, what chassis do you have? Do you have sufficient cooling in the chassis? How many inlet/exhaust fans do you have on the chassis?
 
Starcraft Had some Overheating issues/bugs which i read quite a while back

it had a bug which forced the GPU to render low details screens limitlessly, thereby overheating the GPU

Easy Tweak to Avoid StarCraft II Overheating PC

Blizzard codes Starcraft 2 overheating fix | TG Daily

is it possible that you haven't applied the latest Starcraft 2 patch and the Catalyst Drivers yet?

if not, please try and see

Download StarCraft II Patch 1.3.3 - This is the latest patch for the game StarCraft II - Softpedia

I have a sapphire 6850@1.03v running at 46c idle and 73c Max (Crysis) and 69c (Bioshock)

and my cabinet is not very airy CM E 310 with no extra fans
 
ok so i disassembled the card,wiped off the stock thermal compound and applied some AS5...now load temps at 80 while playing SC2 idle still at 50-52.

cabinet is a mid tower zebronics,2 intakes,one over the cpu one over the grfx card(blows air on the PCB side) outtake is the only one from the PSU 120mm.

will try these tweaks...and farcry 1 if i can find the disc
 
^^

no please don't run Furmark.

it has already been scrapped by the guys at Guru3d for its potential to do damage to the card involved

He is already getting 80c for Starcraft right?

i would suggest him to run a lesser GPU intensive game like Mass Effect or Bioshock or hell even Half Life 2 EP2 just to check if the temps are consistent when the card is on 3d mode

To be honest his idle temps are good (bit on higher side though) so i am not sure if his GPU is faulty at all
 
ok i seemed to have changed some settings in the Catalyst Control Panel,set it to Default and now getting MAX of 75*C
 
@op

i dont think its ur card it self

i think u need to have better airflow in your cabinet

try this. remove your side panel and try blowing some air at it. if it lowers your temps significantly then u know the culprit is bad airflow

otherwise like the others sad RMA the card

cheers:)
 
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