Help With New 6870

Casey

Casey

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So I received my new 6870 and it overheated during Crysis 2 and shut down, I fixed the problem by manually raising it's default 20% fan speed to 50% but it is now quite loud when I am not even playing a game. Is there a program that could automatically raise the fan speed whenever I open a game? Thank you.

And also my card is huge and it covers up all sata ports but one, so I ordered this from Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124013 will that work with my default Sata II Hard drive at boot and everything? Thanks for the help all!

Update: About my Sata drive I did some research and figured out that first of all Sata 2 is backwards compatible with Sata, and that second of all I have a sata drive anyways so haha, no worries. :D
 
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As to far as my knowledge, there is no way to do that. But I have other questions.

What's the temp on the 6870 when it shut down, and what temp is it when you have the fan at 50%? (after playing Crysis, not idle.) Could be an airflow problem. What case do you have? Any way you can better your airflow like better cable management or anything?
 
No idea what I did but yesterday I turned the fan up to 50% played Crysis and watched the temps and they hit max at 150 F - 160 F, but for some reason today it's around 120 F- 140 F max. Which is well under the max 90 Degrees Celsius recommendation. No idea what I did, but I believe the fan was just under powered/not spinning/cooling fast enough.
 
I just walked away with Crysis 2 up and came back and everything shut down? Restarted and the temps were at 121 Degrees Fahrenheit. My 6870 is gettin .95 volts, is that not enough?
 
It's a new 650 Watt from a Ravetek.com? It has been working fine and nothing happens when I actually play the game hours straight, but when I left the system afk and Crysis up the fans in my card slowed down or something. They lowered themselves T_T. GRRRR.
 
MSI After burner can make a custom fan profile that will turn up the fan when the GPU gets to a certain temp. I don't think that any software will do what you originally asked.
 
GUYS! I just remembered that it all shut off along with my clock when I turned my AC on, :D! Stupid crappy power outlets in our house.
 
You can make a custom fan profile do whatever you want I guess. Dealing with the heat of your GPU would be priority over having a noisy fan.
 
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Thanks for your help, I guess it only shut off because of my A/C and everything seems to be running 100% now, thanks!
 
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