GPU overheating?

[ZepD]

Lately my GPU seems to be frying itself after 1 hour + of gameplay. Its a 7850 and I regularly play TW2 on Ultra (without that one AA setting I forget which one) for up to 3 hours without any problem. I found for whatever reason my fan was locked at 20% fixed that but still around the 2 hour mark I'm running close to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Is there a certain graphical setting that I can lower to relief some stress on my GPU that wont effect visuals too much?

 

I moved my case out in the open and it has 7 fans in total so cooling should be covered pretty good. I really hate ENB's but I'm using sweetfx, vanilla settings all on ultra, and all the good lighting/texture/mesh mods.

[Rayblue]

Unless you insist on screenarchery, try lowering down the graphical settings to High (there's some tweak tips up at STEP Project; even the nVidia tweaking guide for Skyrim could also be applied to Radeons).

 

Also, I'm uncomfortable about the idea of overclocking the GPU, so in my case I left it at stock settings.

 

Some GPU owners may bite the bullet by editing the BIOS to unlock fan control.

[Groovtama]

180°F/80°C is pretty normal for a high end/upper mid range graphic card, 220°F/105°C would be critical but 80°C is totally fine.

 

Also don't open up the case it's useless and contraproductive.

[Deep Red]

180°F/80°C is pretty normal for a high end/upper mid range graphic card, 220°F/105°C would be critical but 80°C is totally fine.

 

Also don't open up the case it's useless and contraproductive.

 

Not to mention opening up the video card itself might void any warranty it may have come with. The best you could do to try to alleviate the problem is clean off some dust building up on the inside of your PC with some compressed air. 80 degrees Celsius seems a bit hot though, don't you think? Even for a higher end graphics card.

[lordofthedread]

Here is an infrared image of the stock Radeon HD 7850 when in full use :

 

 

This is in ° Celsius

 

80°C is totally normal for this kind of card, I would not suggest to overclock it unless it is really needed and you have a very good air flow inside your casing.

 

By activating AMD Overdrive you can control the fan speed but it is useless as the sensors will do a better job than you.

[Deep Red]

Here is an infrared image of the stock Radeon HD 7850 when in full use :

 

IMG0035373.png

 

This is in ° Celsius

 

80°C is totally normal for this kind of card, I would not suggest to overclock it unless it is really needed and you have a very good air flow inside your casing.

 

By activating AMD Overdrive you can control the fan speed but it is useless as the sensors will do a better job than you.

 

I tend to stay away from using the AMD Overdrive panel. Turning up the fan past ~35% capacity makes it sound like a fucking hair dryer lol. I wouldn't know though. I'm rolling around with a Radeon HD 6870.. not exactly a top-notch piece of hardware. It usually never gets past 60 degrees Celsius when playing Skyrim.

[lordofthedread]

 

Here is an infrared image of the stock Radeon HD 7850 when in full use :

 

IMG0035373.png

 

This is in ° Celsius

 

80°C is totally normal for this kind of card, I would not suggest to overclock it unless it is really needed and you have a very good air flow inside your casing.

 

By activating AMD Overdrive you can control the fan speed but it is useless as the sensors will do a better job than you.

 

I tend to stay away from using the AMD Overdrive panel. Turning up the fan past ~35% capacity makes it sound like a fucking hair dryer lol. I wouldn't know though. I'm rolling around with a Radeon HD 6870.. not exactly a top-notch piece of hardware. It usually never gets past 60 degrees Celsius when playing Skyrim.

 

Here is the image for the 6870 from AMD :

 

 

Remember that the pictures I post are from reference models, if you have another model it could be cooler or hotter depending on the dissipator there is on the card and the environment inside your casing as well as the temperature in the room etc...

 

Thus said a middle range graphic card should be able to get to 80 degrees without any damage, the sensors are made so that your graphic card will shut down before burning, overheating for a long time can still damage your card (overheating would be 100 degrees or more on a graphic card).