HD3850 runs at over 85 degrees idle?

[kingbrodij]

Wow, I’ve had this Sapphire HD3850 for about two weeks and just saw now in CCC that the temp is over 86 degrees Celsius with 0% GPU activity!

I can tweak the fan speed in rivatuner to bring the temp down but why doesn’t the auto speed feature work?

I do have the card over clocked a bit but what the heck! I can’t imagine what this thing does under load!
So much for 55nm technology? I thought there may have been a bios update to fix the fan but I cant seem to find one.
Anyone else notice HOT temps with this thing or have suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[jjblanche]

There's gotta be something wrong, that's all I can say.

 

[kingbrodij]

Thats what im sayin but the card runs fine, no lockups or funky stuff.
I just dont want it to blow chow in like a week or ever!

If something is wrong what should I check?

I will be adding some artic silver soon. I dont know what else to do besides that!

Thanks guys!

 

[tenaciousleydead]

check if the heatsink is seated properly. when your computers on touch the heatsink to see if it is that hot...youll know

 

[kingbrodij]

The problem was cooling.

The 3850 pretty much cut my case in half. I had zero venting and airflow below the card (The side where the GPU fan is).

Added $3 pci exhaust fan below the card and incresed the 3850 fan duty cycle. Shes 40 degrees C now!

So of course I had to overclock it, 770/1080 now with fan duty cycle at 70%. Temp = steady 55 degrees C!

Thanks all!