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    M17xR4 - 7970M Issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by wcdturbo, Jun 17, 2012.

  1. wcdturbo

    wcdturbo Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all, quick question. I noticed a distrubing trend today and it seems my 7970m is always engaged even when I am running off the Intel GPU. I was watching temps and it (7970) hovers around 65 celcius just sitting at the desktop screen. I have been trying to find temps from other 790m and I am seeing 32 celcius when not being used. I know the intel GPU is in use because I can run the Intel application ot change the display settings and when I run HWMonitorPro it shows the GPU as being the Intel 4000. At a loss here, I am going to run a burnin and see what it maxes at but soemthing isn't right.

    Any ideas?
     
    wcdturbo, Jun 17, 2012
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Yeah you can try this and let me know how it went.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jun 18, 2012
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    Wouldn't the hd4000 be running hotter than the average GPU as it is on the cpu and the CPU is a very hot device as compared to all others?
     
    StZu, Jun 19, 2012
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    I thought that was the case but when I run hwiinfo32, the high temperature (65C-70C) shows under my ati 7970m card.

    Edit: Sorry, I'll stop asking the same question here since I made my own thread on this :D
     
    Ancientbarb, Jun 19, 2012
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  7. wcdturbo

    wcdturbo Notebook Consultant

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    No go, it is brand new so I don't have any dust issues.
     
    wcdturbo, Jun 20, 2012
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    65'C is pretty high on idle, but this card doesn't seem to go over 68-69'C even on full load. Mine idles between 53'-60'C but I have a rather high ambient temperature, it's summer and my dorm room has no AC :mad:

    Have you overclocked your card at all? Mine runs hotter when idle since I overclocked, but I don't really care that much because, like I said, it never goes above 68'C on load as far as I've seen.
     
    nkdv, Jun 20, 2012
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    Im having the same problem and the temperature couldn't be the icpu's since I can fell the hot wind coming from the dgpu side.

    btw which driver are you guys using?
     
    vadupleix, Jun 20, 2012
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