Well I'm not sure what's happening with my graphics card.
Now, before you all tell me to change my thermo paste and clean out my fans I want you to know that I did that 5 months ago. So here's the story:
Last summer (5 months ago in august) I was playing League when all of a sudden I hear a sound in my headphones so I minimize the game to investigate what might be causing this sound. After a short search in the volume mixer I find that a program I use for monitoring my GPU/CPU was on alert due to my GPU reaching >80°C. I turn it off and ignore it for a while. Tomorrow I wake up, play another round and see that my GPU is at 91°C. Now that's where I kinda got scared.
I then changed my thermo paste and cleaned out my fan (it did not have a lot of dust on it) and detached the radiator from the fan and cleaned that too (the radiator had an unspeakable amount of dust in it). So after I cleaned it all up I put it back in and played another round of League. Then I checked my temps and they were at about 85°C. I updated my drivers, and thought that would fix it but it didn't. So then I just left it there to kinda burn because I literally had no idea what might be causing the problem. I considered calling a priest to exorcise any possible demons that might be hiding in my GPU, I'm that pissed... So I just leave the card to burn because I was frustrated that I couldn't figure out what the problem was.
15 days after I check my GPU temp while playing League and it's all like 65°C -75°C I was surprised and happy so I just "rolled" with it and totally forgot about the whole 10 days that my card was overheating.
Fast forward to present day (1/25/2016):
My CPU suddenly starts to get temps like 70-85°C and I open my rig up to investigate. I Clean the radiator (had a lot of dust in it), I clean the fans and I replace the stock thermo paste that was on it. I boot up my rig and what do I hear? THE DEEPEST AND MOST HORRIFYING BEEP THAT SOUNDED LIKE IT CAME FROM THE UNDERWORLD. Right then and there I knew I F-ed up.
My CPU temps were now about 40°C idle and I've never seen them go over 51°C even at 100% load. But oh god oh god if you could see my petrified face, I looked like someone just stabbed me in the back when I saw THAT MY GPU TEMP IS NOW AGAIN 80° IDLE!! I go and start up League to play a game and I see that my GPU temp is now 92°C.
Mind you, 92°C at like 50% load because I play League on the lowest settings possible. If you're wondering why I'm not using any testbench / GPU stress tester is because I'm sacred that if I overload it that it's gonna burn the whole rig down including my motherboard, my house, me and most importantly my kittens.
But I think this might give you guys a clue
The overheating problems started in august and I did something with my graphics card back in July. I'm not really sure what it was but it was some kind of program for rendering / parallel processing I installed and read it said somewhere that it might go faster if I edit the
Shader Buffer setting. So I put the shader buffer on 128 or 256 (I'm not sure) and yes it did go faster. But my GPU started overheating only a month after that.
I've also asked many other people online what to do and some told me that I should just give up on everything and just start cooking my breakfast on the card and some told me that those temperatures are normal for that card (I'm pretty sure they're not normal for any card), some others told me that I should update my drivers. I did that, nothing happened.
I'll link you to another guy that seems to have the same problem: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1771936/ati-radeon-5570-overheating.html
So TL;DR
-August : I start having overheating problems, clean everything update drivers, nothing changes.
-From September to January: GPU temp seems fine
-January 2016: I take out my CPU and put it back in, boot rig up, GPU overheating again.
Please someone help me with this I'm out of ideas. I literally have no clue as to what could be causing this card to do this. Temp sensor seems fine because when I boot up the rig it shows temps in the 30°C and quickly climbs up to 80°C. And please don't tell me that this card is just old and that it's reaching it's end because I've been for about 5 years with this card and it's very dear to me...
If you need any screenshots just say it and I'll reply with one.
UPDATE: Yes I have 1 fan on the top side that seems to be blowing out hot air and my GPU is positioned that it's fan is taking air in from the bottom of my case. I assume that's good because hot air rises and cold air drops? I don't think airflow is causing any problems as my CPU is now perfectly fine with temps and my motherboard temps are okay too.
Now, before you all tell me to change my thermo paste and clean out my fans I want you to know that I did that 5 months ago. So here's the story:
Last summer (5 months ago in august) I was playing League when all of a sudden I hear a sound in my headphones so I minimize the game to investigate what might be causing this sound. After a short search in the volume mixer I find that a program I use for monitoring my GPU/CPU was on alert due to my GPU reaching >80°C. I turn it off and ignore it for a while. Tomorrow I wake up, play another round and see that my GPU is at 91°C. Now that's where I kinda got scared.
I then changed my thermo paste and cleaned out my fan (it did not have a lot of dust on it) and detached the radiator from the fan and cleaned that too (the radiator had an unspeakable amount of dust in it). So after I cleaned it all up I put it back in and played another round of League. Then I checked my temps and they were at about 85°C. I updated my drivers, and thought that would fix it but it didn't. So then I just left it there to kinda burn because I literally had no idea what might be causing the problem. I considered calling a priest to exorcise any possible demons that might be hiding in my GPU, I'm that pissed... So I just leave the card to burn because I was frustrated that I couldn't figure out what the problem was.
15 days after I check my GPU temp while playing League and it's all like 65°C -75°C I was surprised and happy so I just "rolled" with it and totally forgot about the whole 10 days that my card was overheating.
Fast forward to present day (1/25/2016):
My CPU suddenly starts to get temps like 70-85°C and I open my rig up to investigate. I Clean the radiator (had a lot of dust in it), I clean the fans and I replace the stock thermo paste that was on it. I boot up my rig and what do I hear? THE DEEPEST AND MOST HORRIFYING BEEP THAT SOUNDED LIKE IT CAME FROM THE UNDERWORLD. Right then and there I knew I F-ed up.
My CPU temps were now about 40°C idle and I've never seen them go over 51°C even at 100% load. But oh god oh god if you could see my petrified face, I looked like someone just stabbed me in the back when I saw THAT MY GPU TEMP IS NOW AGAIN 80° IDLE!! I go and start up League to play a game and I see that my GPU temp is now 92°C.
Mind you, 92°C at like 50% load because I play League on the lowest settings possible. If you're wondering why I'm not using any testbench / GPU stress tester is because I'm sacred that if I overload it that it's gonna burn the whole rig down including my motherboard, my house, me and most importantly my kittens.
But I think this might give you guys a clue
The overheating problems started in august and I did something with my graphics card back in July. I'm not really sure what it was but it was some kind of program for rendering / parallel processing I installed and read it said somewhere that it might go faster if I edit the
Shader Buffer setting. So I put the shader buffer on 128 or 256 (I'm not sure) and yes it did go faster. But my GPU started overheating only a month after that.
I've also asked many other people online what to do and some told me that I should just give up on everything and just start cooking my breakfast on the card and some told me that those temperatures are normal for that card (I'm pretty sure they're not normal for any card), some others told me that I should update my drivers. I did that, nothing happened.
I'll link you to another guy that seems to have the same problem: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1771936/ati-radeon-5570-overheating.html
So TL;DR
-August : I start having overheating problems, clean everything update drivers, nothing changes.
-From September to January: GPU temp seems fine
-January 2016: I take out my CPU and put it back in, boot rig up, GPU overheating again.
Please someone help me with this I'm out of ideas. I literally have no clue as to what could be causing this card to do this. Temp sensor seems fine because when I boot up the rig it shows temps in the 30°C and quickly climbs up to 80°C. And please don't tell me that this card is just old and that it's reaching it's end because I've been for about 5 years with this card and it's very dear to me...
If you need any screenshots just say it and I'll reply with one.
UPDATE: Yes I have 1 fan on the top side that seems to be blowing out hot air and my GPU is positioned that it's fan is taking air in from the bottom of my case. I assume that's good because hot air rises and cold air drops? I don't think airflow is causing any problems as my CPU is now perfectly fine with temps and my motherboard temps are okay too.
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