Recently I noticed that my ATi Radeon HD 4670 was getting stupid hot. I cleaned the fan and heatsink out, and now it's running slightly cooler, still not very cool though (idles in the 40s, used to be lower 30s). A couple of months ago when I did this, I noticed that for some reason, none of my PCs monitoring programs were reporting fan speed, or giving me the option of fan control like they used to. I'm thinking the fan might be broken.
Yesterday my brother started playing Call of Duty 4, which he had just received, I warned him about the strange temperatures, so we sued the Rivatuner OSD to keep them under check, during gameplay it was constantly 80 degrees, bordering 90 most times, and during times of effect rape (he thinks glitching is kewl, so there is a lot of RPG smoke) it hit near enough 105. Which I know is not safe, at all.
right now it is on the stock cooler that Force3D fitted, it seems to be a aluminum block that can't transfer heat for shit. And the fan does pick up some speed while under load, not much though.
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That tiny little thing, the fan feels like weak as shit plastic too too :v:
I was wondering if there any methods you lot know that might help lower the temperature a bit, I can't really install a fan on my case, as it's a nasty thing with no mounting spots. I could just stick one down with cable ties or something, but I don't have a spare one right now.
You've got fan running at 100%?
I honestly cannot tell, nothing will show the speed of it, and it makes little sound anyway so I never really knew what 100% sounded like, but it looks and sounds like it might be running full speed.
Use Catalyst Control Center.
As I said, nothing at all is showing any reading of Fan speeds or control options, I even tried the profile thing to add fan control into the CCC and that doesn't seem to work either. Frustrating little problem, as it stops me sorting the bigger one :frown:
Anyone else got any ideas? This is bugging me a bit now.
It won't kill you to run the computer with the case open. Look at the fan yourself.
If you need quick cooling, look at PCI fans.
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I don't think running with the case open would improve it much, other than slightly better airflow, my desk is a bit gimpy you see. I might have a look at getting a PCI fan or something similar.
I was talking about seeing if your fan worked, you seemed a bit confused on it.
Ahh I see what you meant now, I read that pretty quickly so I didn't quite take it all in. :downs: Yeah, I'll have to remember to remove it and keep an eye on the fan. It does sound like it's running though, and increasing it's speed ever so slightly under load.
just throwing this out there but idling at 30c-40c and loads up to 90c are not bad for most gpus.
Open up the case
Run the game, get the GPU to full burn
look at the GPU, see if the fan is moving
If not, there's your broken fan, RMA that shit or sell it and get a 4870.
Been watching the fan for the most of the day while under load, it's definatly running, so a borken one is out of the question. I guess I need to look at getting more cool air in there.
If you're feeling up to it, you could remove the fan from the GPU and reapply thermal paste to it. It'll probably bring down the temps a few degrees, depending on the paste used.
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