MSI 7970 being overly hot on load

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Yunn

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Hi guys, I need some help here, I tried doing furmark with my card, MSI 7970 OC (Reference, not TF) MSI Global ? Graphics Card - R7970-2PMD3GD5/OC

This is on stock clocks for the card, 1010/1375
FurMark - OpenGL benchmark and VGA Stress Test - Scores | oZone3D.Net
This is underclocked at 845/1100
FurMark - OpenGL benchmark and VGA Stress Test - Scores | oZone3D.Net
Getting 97deg when underclocked scares me alot, fan was running at 100% and still it hovers at 90+deg

Recently I've been playing Dota 2/TF2 at max settings and I'm getting 87 degrees celcius, and this is when underclocked at 845/1100. Is there something wrong with the card or am i imagining things?

One more thing, does this seem to be a problem with the cooling(fan/heatsink/paste) or the pcb it self? Card idles at 50deg c.
 
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Do not use furmark, its a very bad bench on cards and can damage them.

But your temps are high.

Try running 3D mark 13 and see what temps you get.
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That temps seems high. DOTA2 is not a demanding title any at all, also.

Try to get the card out of your case, take out its reference cooler and clear the dusts from it, if there are any. Clean the thermal compound on both the GPU die and the cooler, then apply new, better thermal compound ( like Arctic Silver 5 ) before putting everything back to their places correctly. This should help with reducing the temperature on your card.
 
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It is perfectly normal.

The reference cooler by AMD is not that good and the Radeon 7970 is a very hot GPU.

Looking at a 7970 using a reference design cooling solution show similar temperatures.

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Yunn

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Thanks for letting me know furmark is bad, wont be using it then.
I hope u mean 3D mark 11? Download taking quite some time, will post result when I can.
 
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If this wasn't under warranty I would do that now :( , but it is. And now im still checking with my local distributor if it voids the warranty. But I'm still unsure it is the cooling..
 
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I understand that the reference cooler isn't great, but I currently still own a reference 5970 that lets me play both games at 70deg c(15 deg difference from 7970) at 30% fan speed(55% fan speed on 7970).

Team Fortress 2 is a 6 year old game, I truly think the 7970 should be pulling this off much easier than this
 
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I couldn't open it up so i sent it for RMA, apparently the card was definitely fried, the technician labelled the problem as "GPU hit 100deg C in less than 30secs, card too hot".
Thx for all your help though
 
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