ATI Catalyst Control Center for Radeon Graphics Cards - How do you manage the fan? Manual or Auto?

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I have a HD 7950 that I overclock through CCC. In the past, the auto fan speeds used to be very lax and let the card get way too hot. I usually keep the fan speed set to manual at about 40%. That tends to keep the card at 60C or below. Any faster than 40%, and it gets noticeably louder.

How are you all setting the fan on the ATI cards? Has CCC gotten any better with auto fan speeds? I would like to use auto, since I wouldn't mind it hitting 50-100% during gaming to really cool it, but like I said in the past it never cranked up fast enough to keep it at decent temps.
 
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well I guess it depends on the card -its fan design- and cooler ? this 7850 oc'ed just on factory auto idles at 20% fan and it get up to 64c@ 33%
and I cant tell noise from one speed to the other

I had a 6850 not so good it took a lot more fan speed all around and ran hotter idle and stressed and noisier as it reved up

so I may come down to luck and card design on what you end up with
 
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Thanks for the reply. I intentionally bought this particular 7950 due to the fact everyone reviewed it and said the heatsink/fans/cooling were really good. I guess the auto fan settings in CCC are still really conservative.

I could always manually bump the fan up I suppose. It's a shame I can't set profiles like I can with cpu fan/case fans in the bios.

 
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I never really wanted to stack on more software. I've heard of this before, but how does it work? Does it replace CCC or just run in addition to it?

I really don't want to screw with CCC, since my OC is rock solid stable. I'd hate to use another app to overclock it and find I made the card unstable.
 
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intentionally bought this particular 7950 due to the fact everyone reviewed it and said the heatsink/fans/cooling were really good. I

well that's what the deal is maybe the ione you got was chunked together during the last shift on Friday ??

that comes down to the luck part --- like that 6850 I got. all that was said about it as well, but I did not see with the one I got

long time ago I got 2 8800's for a sli -- running them as a single card one was better as far as oc'ing and cooling [the excate same matched card's from evga ] so I got lucky with one card not so with the sister card ???

some times that's the way the ball bounces
 
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