Hello, I have been diagnosing what is wrong for about 2 days now and i'm out of all the ideas i had.
Long story short PC was working flawlessly with crimson driver WHQL. 2 days ago i saw new crimson driver update and decided to update because it adds support for NFS and i'm playing NFS. Now GPU (MSI 7870 HAWK) temperature goes through the roof and crashes the driver (saw about 90 degrees on burn in instantly jumps). Before the update GPU was being cooled at 40% fan (auto factory) while hovering over 68-70 degrees celsius. There was no overclock over factory clock. Just out of blue after i updated drivers GPU keeps overheating. Reverted back to crimson WHQL but problem sticked. I thought maybe driver messed up windows so i completely reinstalled windows and problem still persists! I tried additional cleaning of the cooler it's as clean as the day i bought it and problem is still here.
Only thing i can do to have it at "usable" Is to drastically downclock it to 900 mhz core and 1000 mhz memory with voltages to 950 mV and factory is 1218 mV!
I'm fearing the worst that this graphics card is about to die but one is unclear to me why is GPU temp rising so high it's like voltage is too high but it's even lowered to 950 mV.
Please guys help! I tried contacting amd but it's full of idiots who have absolutely no clue about hardware nor even care they just read from pare "Ask customer if he checked this or updated this or did that"...
***EDIT****
What i've noticed so far is that after the driver update gpu is very sensitive on voltage for some reason... Going from 950 mV to 1000 mV impacts the heating quite a lot (i'm not exagerating). Before this update GPU ran at 1219 mV @ 68 degrees celsius and fan was spinning at roughly 45% now with 1000 mV GPU is going from 65 to 68 degrees and fan is spinning at 76%.... What the heck is going on (as i said GPU cooler is cleaned up so we can rule out heating because of dust)?
Long story short PC was working flawlessly with crimson driver WHQL. 2 days ago i saw new crimson driver update and decided to update because it adds support for NFS and i'm playing NFS. Now GPU (MSI 7870 HAWK) temperature goes through the roof and crashes the driver (saw about 90 degrees on burn in instantly jumps). Before the update GPU was being cooled at 40% fan (auto factory) while hovering over 68-70 degrees celsius. There was no overclock over factory clock. Just out of blue after i updated drivers GPU keeps overheating. Reverted back to crimson WHQL but problem sticked. I thought maybe driver messed up windows so i completely reinstalled windows and problem still persists! I tried additional cleaning of the cooler it's as clean as the day i bought it and problem is still here.
Only thing i can do to have it at "usable" Is to drastically downclock it to 900 mhz core and 1000 mhz memory with voltages to 950 mV and factory is 1218 mV!
I'm fearing the worst that this graphics card is about to die but one is unclear to me why is GPU temp rising so high it's like voltage is too high but it's even lowered to 950 mV.
Please guys help! I tried contacting amd but it's full of idiots who have absolutely no clue about hardware nor even care they just read from pare "Ask customer if he checked this or updated this or did that"...
***EDIT****
What i've noticed so far is that after the driver update gpu is very sensitive on voltage for some reason... Going from 950 mV to 1000 mV impacts the heating quite a lot (i'm not exagerating). Before this update GPU ran at 1219 mV @ 68 degrees celsius and fan was spinning at roughly 45% now with 1000 mV GPU is going from 65 to 68 degrees and fan is spinning at 76%.... What the heck is going on (as i said GPU cooler is cleaned up so we can rule out heating because of dust)?
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