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    New 7970 Drivers, Fan frequently on

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by mortalcombat, Oct 24, 2012.

  1. mortalcombat

    mortalcombat Notebook Consultant

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    Ever since I installed the new drivers, doing random stuff on my desktop triggers the GPU fan. With the old drivers, the only time the fan came on was when I was playing games.

    This happens even though all apps I'm using are set to power savings and the global settings are set to power savings too..

    I'm considering rolling back to the old drivers now
     
    mortalcombat, Oct 24, 2012
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  2. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    just for a test see if this works.

    if you have any monitoring software ie core temps,hw monitor open the program to desktop. then close it and see if that stops the fans or lowers them. for some reason this happens with nvidia drivers and theres no solution as of yet but doing this seems to work every time.
     
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  3. Montage

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    There is a bug with idle clocks on 12.11 that causes them to be higher than normal. This is true at least with the 7000 series, but it might also affect the 7970M. AMD knows about this, and is working on a fix.
     
    Montage, Oct 24, 2012
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