ASUS Radeon HD 7770 insanely overheating

[Welsh1]

I bought a new ASUS Radeon HD 7770 Ghz edition to replace my faulty 5750. I plugged it in, checked if the fan is working and went straight into a game of Battlefield 3. My card made a noise like a hairdryer and i instantly tabbed out. I looked at msi afterburner and it said my card was running at 107*C. I found out that it runs at 45*C while idle. This messes up gameplay badly. What is the problem and is there any way to fix it?

 

[mace200200]

What are your fan percentages when your in game? My 7770 is not a hot running card.

 

[chromic]

my hd5850 idling @ 46c 20% fan

 

[Welsh1]

What are your fan percentages when your in game? My 7770 is not a hot running card.

My fan runs at 100% during gameplay (what of it) and 10% idle.

 

[mace200200]

What are your fan percentages when your in game? My 7770 is not a hot running card.

My fan runs at 100% during gameplay (what of it) and 10% idle.

Many people will have this problem and their fans will be at 30% (the default) the whole time. Unless it's a miss read the card has something wrong with it and I would RMA it. People like ASUS cards so you can try them again, if your pissed at them and want a different brand, they should let you do that too.

 

[smeezekitty]

Sounds like the heat sink is not correctly seated on the GPU chip. You could try to reseat it yourself but since it is new, it would probably be better just to RMA.