Graphics Card too Hot

Respital

Respital

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Hello all,

Recently my computer restarted while playing Dota2 and such I noticed that the cause of this was likely the temperature of my graphics card. I cleaned out the card completely with compressed air however i still get idle temperatures in the 80s (C) and load temperatures at 105C. I'm not sure what the problem could be but I'm guessing it's something to do with the thermal paste..but I've never taken a heatsink off of a GPU before and would rather not. I submitted a ticket with XFX and before I could it told me

"1.) Normal operating temperature should be 30~95 Celsius. Most cards will idle in the 40's or 50's Celsius, and when under a gaming load run in the 70's to 80's . If running an extreme stress test or using the GPU to do OpenCL calculations the card can run into the lower 90's.

2.) When GPU temperature is over 95C, double-check the case fan/VGA fan. There is likely a failure in the fan/heatsink assembly. Clean out fan/heatsink with compressed air. "

Any help as to figuring out the failure in the fan/heatsink would be much helpful, although the fan does spin properly.
 
I would look on youtube for a video of "removal of heatsink on (your Graphics card brand & model)." There are numerous videos on youtube on how to remove them. It's just a lot easier watching someone do it rather then having someone tell you how to do it in words on here. Then, of course, add whatever thermal paste you use. I still like Arctic Silver 5, but that's just my particular choice.
 
Removing the heatsink doesn't void your warranty, so I'd remove it and put some clean AS5 on like Hawkeyez suggested. That should help bring your temps down.

I'd also download MSI Afterburner and play with the fan speeds just to be sure the fans on the cooler are working.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Removing the heatsink doesn't void your warranty, so I'd remove it and put some clean AS5 on like Hawkeyez suggested. That should help bring your temps down.

I'd also download MSI Afterburner and play with the fan speeds just to be sure the fans on the cooler are working.
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I haven't changed the thermal paste yet but i have played with the fan settings, at 100% i can get it down to 70 at idle but under load it still goes in the 100s.
 
Respital said:
I haven't changed the thermal paste yet but i have played with the fan settings, at 100% i can get it down to 70 at idle but under load it still goes in the 100s.
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nice that you can get it down to 70, BUT with 100% fanspeed, that would give a hell of noice.
take it of and put past on it, whats the use of playing with fanspeeds at this temps.
dont wait to long, and what are the temps of youre vrams now???
 
turbobooster said:
nice that you can get it down to 70, BUT with 100% fanspeed, that would give a hell of noice.
take it of and put past on it, whats the use of playing with fanspeeds at this temps.
dont wait to long, and what are the temps of youre vrams now???
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I don't know what the temps on my vrams are, i'm using msi afterburner to tell me.

I submitted a ticket with XFX and they are letting me RMA the card, does anyone have any experience with RMAs? I don't have onboard video so i'm hoping that my old 8800gt still works, can I have both amd and nvidia drivers installed at once?
 
--boot into safe mode

--In safe mode delete all ATI/AMD drivers CCC everything related to AMD

--Once that is done turn the computer off remove the ATI/AMD card and insert the Nvidia card into the 16X slot

--the computer will read the stock drivers and all the graphics settings will be screwed up

--Go onto Nvidia's site and download the lastest drivers and install. You will probably want to reboot to make sure all the dll's are loaded for the card.
 
XFX is good with RMA's. They thoroughly test the card and let you know if anything is wrong. Even when they found nothing wrong with my 6870 they sent me a replacement anyway.
 
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