What's a good temp and fan speed for 5850?

[wildkitten]

I just installed my Radeon 5850 and I am VERY impressed with how things look. But I was curious about 2 things. In the Catalyst Control Center there's a section called ATI Overdrive. It provides some very nice information. I noticed when I'm idleing (on my Windows desktop) the temp sits around 54 C and fan speed is at 24%. When I'm in WoW or The Sims or Dragon Age the temp goes to about 87-88 C and fan speed around 60%. Are these settings good or should I manually set the fan at a certain setting? Just curious because honestly I've never really kept up with video card temperatures before. Thank you.

 

[HKH]

I keep my fan at 35% or 40% depending on the amount I can tolerate that day

at 35% I get under 40C idle and around 75C load
at 40% I get around a few less idle and around 70C load

I use a Silverstone RV02 case which is quite big and my air flow is decent

My comp doesn't hang or anything, so I'm ok with the temp

but ur 87-88 is kinda pushing it, it hot for my taste

Anything over 40% fan speed on this card is just too loud for me

Might want to check your airflow btw, and personally I don't recommend using
"Auto" for fan speed, at idle it's too low and too hot

 

[Keiki646]

I just installed my Radeon 5850 and I am VERY impressed with how things look. But I was curious about 2 things. In the Catalyst Control Center there's a section called ATI Overdrive. It provides some very nice information. I noticed when I'm idleing (on my Windows desktop) the temp sits around 54 C and fan speed is at 24%. When I'm in WoW or The Sims or Dragon Age the temp goes to about 87-88 C and fan speed around 60%. Are these settings good or should I manually set the fan at a certain setting? Just curious because honestly I've never really kept up with video card temperatures before. Thank you.

Hmm, Your temps on the GPU is 54C at idle? Do you have good airflow in your case?
Reason why I say this is because I system has good airflow and my temps on my 5850 is at idle 32C and full load with fan is on 60% is 52C. Please make sure there is some air flow for the GPU. You might want to order a VGA Cooling device.
Yes I am talking about Cooling Fans for the Video card and have one of slot guards remove for airflow to come thru the computer.
If you like is a sample of my system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOUzM_PqWc sorry for the video quality.
But I think that is too hot to be running. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUa1UASQHk0

 

[OvrClkr]

Use MSI Afterburner and set your fan curve (profile). This way the fan auto raises depending on the temp :



http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv199/OvrClkr/Afterburner.png

Might want to check you airflow/cable-management as well, those temps are way to hot at LOAD.

 

[flyinfinni]

Thats a little warm. It's probably not damagingly warm, but still warmer than I would like. What case are you using? You may not be getting proper airflow through your case and have a higher case temp which could be causing the high temp. What happens to your temps if you take the side of the case off?

 

[jay2tall]

They get a bit warm. If you aren't overclocking I wouldn't worry about messing with the fan speed. If a card has issues running on factory settings, it should be RMA'ed.

 

[OvrClkr]

They get a bit warm. If you aren't overclocking I wouldn't worry about messing with the fan speed. If a card has issues running on factory settings, it should be RMA'ed.

I can understand warm but 87-88c?

My card doesnt even break 70c (overvolted/overclocked 19%) when stressed @ 100% load using Kombustor/furmark so the OP must have either bad card/horrible ambient temps/airflow ..

 

[Keiki646]

They get a bit warm. If you aren't overclocking I wouldn't worry about messing with the fan speed. If a card has issues running on factory settings, it should be RMA'ed.

Well I was thinking the same thing before and I have my overclock to Core GPU 775 and Memory is 1115
and still I am under 32c or 30c idle and full 48c to 53c with fan speed on 50% or 60%

I think he/she doesn't have good airflow in the case. but we can't be sure yet
But your idea is such a good one to RMA the card. I don't trust it for being that hot

 

[flyinfinni]

exactly my thinking OvrClkr. Thats almost to GTX480 temp levels- thats NOT what 5850's are supposed to do

 

[OvrClkr]

Well before the OP even thinks about an RMA we have to see what his case looks like, cause nothing worse than sending in a card when it is working perfectly fine.

 

[Keiki646]

Well befiore the OP even thinks about an RMA we have to see what his case looks like, cause nothing worse than sending in a card when it is working perfectly fine.

So let have him/her take a photo of his case to show us and the inside of it was well to see if he has done a good good with the cable management.

 

[flyinfinni]

It might be enough to just know what the case IS.

 

[jay2tall]

Technically those temps are within spec, and unless the card is failing they won't, or usually, won't allow you to RMA it. I'd be curious as to what your ambient temps are. Do you have a small case or is it cluttered? Do you have good airflow?

You can always run something like OCCT and use the GPU test to see if it returns errors or generates artifacts. It would give you a good test to whether there is anything electronically wrong with your card.

 

[OvrClkr]

So let have him/her take a photo of his case to show us and the inside of it was well to see if he has done a good good with the cable management.

Yea, it helps a bunch cause I remember a user here on Toms complaining about his system when in fact this is what he had done :

I had to copy that image because it was unbelieveable :lol:

 

[Keiki646]

Yea, it helps a bunch cause I remember a user here on Toms complaining about his system when in fact this is what he had done :

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv199/OvrClkr/trisli.jpg

I had to copy that image because it was unbelieveable :lol:

that is overkill funny, That that cable management is screeww upppp

You will never see that done to my RIG. LOL
this is my RIG inside

here are my temps and readings

 

[flyinfinni]

Umm.... WOW lol. Thats funny!

 

[OvrClkr]

that is overkill funny, That that cable management is screeww upppp

You will never see that done to my RIG. LOL
this is my RIG inside
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs515.snc3/27062_393973826296_581451296_4338749_505551_n.jpg

here are my temps and readings
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._395269021296_581451296_4380660_8165716_n.jpg

What are your idle and load temps @ 4Ghz? Sorry cannot zoom your pic here at work

 

[Keiki646]

What are your idle and load temps @ 4Ghz? Sorry cannot zoom your pic here at work

28, 22, 26, 24 idle

51, 44,49, 47 full load

also I have it by the windows so the air helps it alot
and I've lapped my CPU as well

 

[wildkitten]

My case is the Thermaltake VA8000BWS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133154 All my excess cables are tied up above where the motherboard is, nothing in the way of the fans at all. I do have 2 hard drives that sit behind the front fan in the hard drive bays, and i leave an empty bay between them allowing airflow. My sound card is about 2 inches below the bottom of the video card, there's no cables between them or anything. So i really don't see anything block airflow. I do have 2 sata cables but those are more to the side running to the hard drives, and the power cables run down more along side the door of the case then the middle where it would potentially block airflow. Also, I don't seem to have anything wrong with the video card, it performs very well.

 

[OvrClkr]

28, 22, 26, 24 idle

51, 44,49, 47 full load

also I have it by the windows so the air helps it alot
and I've lapped my CPU as well

sweet =)

I was getting 27/43 @ 3.9Ghz but that was in January, now its gone up to 33/49 since my ambient went up almost 10 degrees =(

 

[flyinfinni]

Hmm- your airflow should be fine then... I wonder if maybe your Heatsink/fan were not mounted quite right. Might be worth pulling it off and replacing the thermal pase and making sure its set properly.

 

[Keiki646]

Hmm- your airflow should be fine then... I wonder if maybe your Heatsink/fan were not mounted quite right. Might be worth pulling it off and replacing the thermal pase and making sure its set properly.

Yes that would be the best thing to do and make sure you the good stuff.

 

[Keiki646]

sweet =)

I was getting 27/43 @ 3.9Ghz but that was in January, now its gone up to 33/49 since my ambient went up almost 10 degrees =(

Same here it will go up and when the temps do go up for the spring and summer times, I am going to clock it back down to 3675.03Ghz. It would be the smart thing to do specially if the temps are going to be in the 70 and 80's. But I am thinking about doing a mod to the H50 soon.

 

[wildkitten]

I believe I may have confused some numbers earlier. I have been playing WoW now for a good 30 minutes, the temp has on occasion hit 80C but only stays there for a few seconds before going to 79 or 78, the fan speed hasn't gone over 33% and this with the activity sometimes getting around80-83%.

 

[Keiki646]

I believe I may have confused some numbers earlier. I have been playing WoW now for a good 30 minutes, the temp has on occasion hit 80C but only stays there for a few seconds before going to 79 or 78, the fan speed hasn't gone over 33% and this with the activity sometimes getting around80-83%.

Just Manually control the fan speed yourself.