ati his 4870 overheating...

ok i just bought a his 4870 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161269

and i was happy with teh performence over the 4850 that gave for my ageing opteron 165@3ghzs socket 939.

so couple times while playing crysis it would just freeze and i had to end task to get back to windows.

so i check the temp and it was 100c to 110c....

so i figured i check the thermal paste and see if they put it on right.

and it was pretty much none on it so i put new on and put it back in my pc and fire her up and tried crysis again and the temps was a bit better but went up to 98c.... but didint get no freezing.

but why does this card run so hot? right now its siting at 67 just on the desktop.

i have good case cooling to big 250mm fan facing right at it and another one in the front of the case and a 120mm in the back.

my visontek 4850 never got this hot max load it did was 60 to 65max and that was with ony a 60% fan speed.

and it seems like i cant change the fan speed for this card because theres no settings to change it anywhere i even tried that fan fix for the 4800s in profile which didint change the speed.

than i looked at the fan plug and it has ony red and black wires which problee the problem why i cant change the speed.

i also looked at the reviews and saw some that said theres didint come with the memory headsinks around the fan which mine didint either would that cause the problem?


also running crysis at 1920x1200 res with everything on very high and dx10 wouldint cause this high temps? or should int it get hot like this for any game?

 

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