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Hello,

I have a crossfire setup of 2 6950, the above card is OK but the lower card was reading 70 after a long gaming session. Is this OK. What do other crossfire users do to help the below card as it is being blasted by the fans from above and dealing with its own heat.

Thanks,

Paul

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No that's fine although I would expect the top card to be hotter. Are you checking in the CCC or using something like GPUZ ?
If you are not familiar GPUZ is a free utility that you could use to check your temps against what is being reported in the CCC.

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That is pretty much normal. You should start worrying when it begins to reach the high 80s though like 88. You probably wont reach that though with crossfirex. If you really want to keep the temps lower either change the way some of your case`s fans are facing (So change to either intake or outake), add a fan that blows air from the graphics cards out the back or side, or just go water cooling. (Watercooling would be expensive and probably not required at your temps.
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donohue100 said:
Hello,

I have a crossfire setup of 2 6950, the above card is OK but the lower card was reading 70 after a long gaming session. Is this OK. What do other crossfire users do to help the below card as it is being blasted by the fans from above and dealing with its own heat.

Thanks,

Paul

what model 6950's.?
what case and case fan configuration.?

I have one Xfx and one HD colour 6950 and one out fan right next to them on the left case side. I have the in fan at the front and another out fan on the top. The case is a cm storm enforcer.

The 70 happened while playing prototype 2 this also caused my CPU to become to hot for my liking. Hd temps 25 C. CPU idle 31C, GPU idle 39C, Many people are reporting memory leaks in this game and other lag issues.

Ok thanks very much for the help I will OC it to 4. I have had no problems so far apart from with Prototype 2. Every other game maxed out did not produce the CPU, GPU temps that Prototype have. Many users with specs much higher than mine are reporting lag even at low resolutions. I thought a patch would have resolved the memory leak many are reporting and the lag, Once again thanks.

haha I'm not quite a master is me having the 965BE better than 955BE was the 955BE the reason for the bottle neck possibility. Prototype 2 is breaking mine and the gaming community's balls.
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just knowing to get the 955BE to 4.0GHz can be hard sometimes while the 965BE just needs a slight tweak.
I never did understand how THAT .2GHz matters so much.

tell me more about Prototype 2, what's so demanding the graphics or CPU loads.?

apparently its a common problem and there is a memory leak but my RAM seems fine. People with better rigs than mine are getting lag at the lowest resolution. I have tried disabling/enabling certain settings such as vsync. I have tried limiting FPS to 60. I think its a bad port but would be an awesome game. I will load it up and check what loads are on CPU/GPU.

Right the CPU was at 50C and the GPU was at 60C. The game ran amazingly, no lag at all and no crashes. It seems to OC you advised me to do has solved the problem as I had not tried playing since doing that. I recommend people with the same issue to also get the updated profiles from ATI. :)  hope it stays this way as I was sat playing waiting for the inevitable horrid crash which never came. The community is resorting to all sorts to get this game to work properly including deleting audio files and a host of desperate attempts to get some good gameplay in before lag time. :) 
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