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Radeon 6950 performance issues with new cooler

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  • Graphics
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  • Radeon
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February 12, 2014 4:01:43 AM

Ok so last week my 2+ year old Sapphire Radeon 6950 had a fan that broke. I did my research and bought a good/cost effective Arctic Accelero Mono Plus. I also was able to install two more case fans around my CPU to replace those that werent working. So my case now has better cooling with the new cpu fans and aftermarket (working) fan then it did before. However, games are now stuttering bad when they werent before, from newish games like Borderlands 2 to old games like L4D2. The stock clocks are 800/1250, but after running GPU-Z today, the clocks are usually only 200/150 during games. I checked the CCC, everything appears right with the power and clock speeds, and the CPU and GPU arent electronically limited by drivers (you can do that in the CCC, lower the CPU/GPU for heat/stability reasons)

And in case it was a steam issue, i have already verified cache integrity, moved folders, etc..

What could be making my games choppy now when they were working just fine last night with a cooler that had just one working fan?


Specs:
AMD Phenom X2 945 3.0 ghz Quad Core
Sapphire Radeon 6950, now with aftermarket cooler
4 GB Ram
Win 7

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February 12, 2014 8:54:33 PM

Bump! I would really appreciate some help on this, as every game and benchmark is still stuttering. I installed to 13.12 and no change
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