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ZenfoldorVGI on 28 October 2010

I've got a question. What is the best way to control the fan on one of these cards?

I can manually control the fan through CCC, or I can let it control itself, but I would prefer if I could set an "Ideal" temperature and let the card control itself. Currently, on load it likes to hover somewhere over 40 degrees C(maybe a little higher, not sure). However, the fan never really turns itself up. I'd like to set the card to crank the fan to 11 when it gets up around 50. Is there a 3rd party program to adjust that? I hear that HIS makes a program that will work with the Sapphire cards. Is there a "good" or "smart" way to control cooling?

Also, I've ordered several NICE aftermarket fans including an exhause fan to do a push/pull airflow with my CPU, so my case is now(and soon to become) cooler than my actual room, lol. I think I overdid it with the fans though. I have 3 180mm fans, 1x 160mm fan, 4 140mm fans, plus the PSU, CPU, and GPU fan. Totaling 11 very powerful fans, and also the case is almost completely mesh and again HUGE, so my cooling is now uber, lol. My shark exhaust fan is one of the highest end parts in my case, lol. Only 20 bucks.

I followed the "In through the front, side, and bottom, out through the back and top. The "INs" on the bottom of the case are controversial because they can pick up dust off the floor, but I have two things going for me.

1. I'm on hardwood.

2. My case is on 3.5 inch wheels keeping it well off the ground.

So, I actually have two powerful fans blowing directly into my GPU fan suction reducing temps there.



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ZenfoldorVGI on 28 October 2010

PS: I've started playing Dragon Age Origins on Steam. Doesn't even heat up the card 1080p max settings. :D FLAWLESS gameplay.

I've been istalling steam games on my "super speed" partition of my HDD, and only keeping Windows 7 and my GPU utilities/drivers on my SSD. I have 50gb left on my SDD for whatever that I will probably never need. Might put WoW on it, lol. Computer starts and shuts down in like 10 seconds, lol. I got that crucial SSD(only one that takes advantage of Sata III 6gbps plugins) that has the over 300mbps read speeds, and it's smoking. I can do a full scan with malwarebytes(installed on my E drive) in about 2 minutes.

I am impressed with this build. You know you got a good computer when a stockk 3.4ghz Phenom X4 quad core processor is your worst part, lol. Woohoo! :D



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It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
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I don't need your console war.

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ZenfoldorVGI on 29 October 2010

Look what this guy said about my card! D=

WTF, lol. I quote:

WARNING DoA - No video at all

Pros: Absolutely none.

Cons: This was the first ATI/AMD card I have ever owned. I have been gaming since 1997 and have been using nVidia exclusively the entire time. Today I was excited to meet the UPS guy dropping off my package from NewEgg. Little did I know this would turn out to be such a disappointment. Card was DoA, no video at all and never worked in my Rampage II Extreme Core i7 system. Now I have to deal with the whole RMA process... *sigh*

Other Thoughts: I learned my lesson and so it's back to nVidia forever. I would DEFINITELY recommend to stay away from ATI/AMD products and especially Sapphire for poor quality and even worse QA and testing.

0 out of 8 people found this review helpful.



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westplay on 30 October 2010

I think leave your cards fan control to auto. Unless it gets really hot, but graphics cards are made to work in high temps. My 8800gt gets 78 during summer. I don't know if there is any other program for ATI cards to adjust your fan control.
Did that seagate with the 300GB partition really worked? Its really impressive!
About the comment on newegg, if it really happend to this guy then he is very unlucky and he should blame the brand of the card etc Asus Msi. I surely was going to be mad too, but leaving a comment stay away from ATI cards is wrong and he should not tell to people what to do.
I despise these kind of people, especially fanboys that are stuck in the head on a brand, console or anything else. Everyone has a right to like a product more but leave everyone else to their peace, and don't state false statements unless you have really tried the other products.



ZenfoldorVGI on 30 October 2010
westplay said:

I think leave your cards fan control to auto. Unless it gets really hot, but graphics cards are made to work in high temps. My 8800gt gets 78 during summer. I don't know if there is any other program for ATI cards to adjust your fan control.
Did that seagate with the 300GB partition really worked? Its really impressive!
About the comment on newegg, if it really happend to this guy then he is very unlucky and he should blame the brand of the card etc Asus Msi. I surely was going to be mad too, but leaving a comment stay away from ATI cards is wrong and he should not tell to people what to do.
I despise these kind of people, especially fanboys that are stuck in the head on a brand, console or anything else. Everyone has a right to like a product more but leave everyone else to their peace, and don't state false statements unless you have really tried the other products.


I completely agree.

My only issue with the fan speed is that it never goes about 22 percent on auto. I think I'll manually set it to 32 percent at least, but if it will only ever get to 22 percent, isn't the other 78 percent of the fan speed wasted when it could be cooling, lol?

Bah, might just leave it on auto.



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vlad321 on 30 October 2010

Update your EVGA Precision tool that ame with the card. The new update lets you dictate how auto behaves, so that when it gets to a certain temperature the fan speeds up, or slows down.



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ZenfoldorVGI on 30 October 2010
vlad321 said:

Update your EVGA Precision tool that ame with the card. The new update lets you dictate how auto behaves, so that when it gets to a certain temperature the fan speeds up, or slows down.


I have a different card now. I have a Sapphire 6870. I am going to run them in crossfire. Check out the scaling comparisons I linked earlier in this thread for their performance specs. :D



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haxxiy on 30 October 2010

You're quite concerned about cooling, aren't you?



 

 

 

 

 

ZenfoldorVGI on 30 October 2010
haxxiy said:

You're quite concerned about cooling, aren't you?


lol, damn right. I want this to last me a while. Plus I'm a little obsessive compulsive anyway.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

haxxiy on 30 October 2010
ZenfoldorVGI said:
haxxiy said:

You're quite concerned about cooling, aren't you?


lol, damn right. I want this to last me a while. Plus I'm a little obsessive compulsive anyway.


Yeah, I guess it will last for long time. I didn't bothered too much with cooling myself, one of the reasons I get insane temps when running the SLI at full (~100 degrees) but just a minority of games need all that power. It'll be fine as long as it lasts more one year or so, time by which I'll have another upgrade.