Powercolor HD7950

[Erosannin]

As stated, this post is about my Powercolor HD7950.

 

The problem is simple, I mine Litecoin with my other HD7950 and it goes up to 65 degrees and never exceeds that (it's an XFX)

 

My Powercolor though is reaching all the way to 101 degrees with the same tasks.

 

I tried to raise the fan speed on the card and it doesn't change a thing.

 

Is my card broken and need an RMA?

[ccokeman]

I am guessing you are running both in the same system. Is it a reference card or custom cooled card? Is it the top or bottom card? Did you make sure you were adjusting the fan speed on that card?

[Erosannin]

Bottom card and it has a custom cooler from Powercolor which should be even better that my XFX.

 

I made sure I was adjusting the right fan speed more than once and yes they are both in the same system in Crossfire.

 

My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 and my CPU is an i7-3770K.

[wevsspot]

Hey Ero, you have a couple options if the custom fan profile isn't working.

 

Option 1 - RMA card

 

Option 2 - remove the factory heatsink, clean up the piss poor factory TIM and replace with some higher quality thermal compound.  Re-assemble, properly torque heatsink screws and hope that does the trick.

[IVIYTH0S]

Feel the air coming off the card, if it's not hot, maybe it has a faulty sensor.

What's it idle at?

[Erosannin]

it idles at 22 degrees as the air in that room must be at 13-14 max

[IVIYTH0S]

And how about the XFX?

[Erosannin]

The XFX never goes above 65 degrees with fan at 60%

[IVIYTH0S]

The XFX never goes above 65 degrees with fan at 60%

I meant idle

[Erosannin]

Idles at 20-21