MSI R7970 OC temperatures - normal?

Necruss

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Hi,I have just bought this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127652

It is second hand. Previous owner used water cooling for it so the original cooling is in fact new. I have just changed the thermal grease (http://www.revoltec.com/volumes/PDM/_products/rz032/rz032_db_en.pdf), installed original cooler and started testing.

After few minutes in 3dmark I was shocked - cooler is running like crazy and HWinfo shows that the GPU temperature is 95 C degrees! Is it normal? I know that this is refferal construction and they are more noisy and less efficient than custom made but this seems high to me.

Previous owner says that on water cooling he had temperatures 65-68 in stress.

Please advise. My previous card (VTX 7870 BLACK) had never gone above 75 C degrees in stress that's why I am asking.
 

Necruss

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As I did not get any response I decided to sell this card on the aftermarket and for the money I have earned earned I have just bought GIGABYTE 7950 WIndforce 3 with more than 1 year warranty. It will be little less powerful than 7970 but certainly cooler.