I'm not sure how long it has been doing this, or if it just started, but I just got Crysis Warhead today and wanted to make sure I didn't fry my GPU by forgetting to turn the fan on high(before I set it to manual and turned it down low when I would surf the web, then high when I played games. I didn't remember if I still had it like that, which I didn't.), so I went to CCC and after some monitoring of it, I noticed that the card got to 103C. This seems really high and I don't ever remember it getting to this point before. Usually it stayed at 80ish, and MAYBE got to the 90s.
So I manually turned the fan to 100%, but the card still got really hot. I went to downclock it to see if that would help lower the temps, and at first I was confused because CCC said the current speeds were as low as they could go, and I didn't remember ever underclocking it. So I looked at it with GPU-z, and it said my speeds were the stock speed, so I think CCC and/or the driver might be messing up. So, ignoring what CCC said my current speeds were, I used it to underclock the card to as low as it can go(500/750 GPU/memory) and it GPU-z saw that it changed, so at least the underclocking part of CCC is working. I went to game some more and see if the temps changed at all, and it got a max of 95C.
So, what can I do to fix this? I've been told that 103 isn't a healthy temp for the card, even though 120(?) is the max. I think that since CCC couldn't read my current speeds correctly, it might be malfunctioning causing everything to go bad, in return causing me to have high temps. I have the latest drivers, but is there a way I can completely get rid of them, then reinstall them again? Maybe that will fix it somehow. Or are there any other suggestions on what to do?
I dusted on my case about a week ago, so I don't think dust is the problem. Also, I noticed its not just Crysis that makes it really hot. I played Batman Arkham Asylum and Mass effect, along with numerous other games that I heard the fan going at the same speed(but didnt check the temps for those), and those two games got it to 103 as well. Also another reason why I think CCC could be bugged is because the max temp it gets to is 103C. When it gets there it usually seems like it is stuck there. It just seems kind of weird that it doesn't like fluctuate between 100-105, and is just stuck at 103.
So I manually turned the fan to 100%, but the card still got really hot. I went to downclock it to see if that would help lower the temps, and at first I was confused because CCC said the current speeds were as low as they could go, and I didn't remember ever underclocking it. So I looked at it with GPU-z, and it said my speeds were the stock speed, so I think CCC and/or the driver might be messing up. So, ignoring what CCC said my current speeds were, I used it to underclock the card to as low as it can go(500/750 GPU/memory) and it GPU-z saw that it changed, so at least the underclocking part of CCC is working. I went to game some more and see if the temps changed at all, and it got a max of 95C.
So, what can I do to fix this? I've been told that 103 isn't a healthy temp for the card, even though 120(?) is the max. I think that since CCC couldn't read my current speeds correctly, it might be malfunctioning causing everything to go bad, in return causing me to have high temps. I have the latest drivers, but is there a way I can completely get rid of them, then reinstall them again? Maybe that will fix it somehow. Or are there any other suggestions on what to do?
I dusted on my case about a week ago, so I don't think dust is the problem. Also, I noticed its not just Crysis that makes it really hot. I played Batman Arkham Asylum and Mass effect, along with numerous other games that I heard the fan going at the same speed(but didnt check the temps for those), and those two games got it to 103 as well. Also another reason why I think CCC could be bugged is because the max temp it gets to is 103C. When it gets there it usually seems like it is stuck there. It just seems kind of weird that it doesn't like fluctuate between 100-105, and is just stuck at 103.
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