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    P150HM 7970M Temp questions

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Kevinmcg, Dec 21, 2012.

  1. Kevinmcg

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    So i installed my 7970m in my p150hm yesterday and im curious about temps.

    I did a repaste but with nothing special. It had the AMD paste on and i took it off and put on my paste.

    I idle at about 34C and when at 99% utilization it goes up to 82C, but i feel my fan doesnt really kick in until it hits 80C. Is there a way to change the fan profile?


    Note it was at 82C while playing FC3 for about 2 hours. I think i need to get ahold of some electrical tape or something for the top of the heatsinks as i heard that helped.

    Please let me know how i should go about this.
     
    Kevinmcg, Dec 21, 2012
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    jaybee83 Biotech-Doc

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    yep the aluminum foil tape trick is pretty nice, lowers temps by about 5C. ur idle temps look fine and even the load temps are nothing to worry about really...
    concerning the fans, just press fn+1 to force them to 100% instantly if u need more cooling powah. also, it helps immensely if u slightly raise the back of ur machine. i for one am using two plastic bottle caps for that :D improves temps vastly!

    cheers

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    The thing is its already sitting on a notebook cooler, albeit a small one but its already one on. forgot about fn f1 ill try that
     
    Kevinmcg, Dec 21, 2012
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    Whats the voltage on your 7970m?
     
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    I am not sure, and i am at work and cannot check but i'll check that when i get home.

    I bought it from mythlogic and the bios they flashed on it has stock clocks of 900-1250 so its a bit weird.
     
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    BIOS typically controls your fan profile; the hardware monitoring system relays temp thresholds and BIOS adjusts fan RPM as necessary.

    You can override that while in your OS though, using a program like SpeedFan. Control is limited, but you can manually set your fan speed with it.
     
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    Hmph, its running at 1.0v actually lower than stock. It takes 2 minutes of kombuster to get it to 73C.

    With FN-1 it runs 74-75C in kombuster never above, guess thats actually good for this card.
     
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    yep thats deff good :) mine reaches around 82-83C in kombustor with fn+1. but thats after 20 min. with 1.075v and a 20% oc :p

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
     
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    My clocks are 900-1250 because thats what its set to in the vBios :), but when i oc via msi ab the screen tears.

    I don't think it would go high on 1.0v anyways.
     
    Kevinmcg, Dec 21, 2012
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    Screen tearing can be stopped by setting the enableunofficial OC value in the Msi afterburner configuration file to a value of 2.

    But it's like you said, won't go far at 1V.
     
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    That didn't fix the tearing :(

    When i OC it the clock skews between 300-450 idle and that is what is causing the tearing i think.
     
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    That is odd, setting that value to 2 is meant to disable power play and so your clocks
    Would always stay at their maximum value.

    Did you restart afterburner after changing the config file?
     
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    OCing by using amd overdrive instead of afterburner does also circumvent the screen tearing. you should try that, for details on how to enable overdrive just check out the thread in my sig, update no. 4 of the OP to be exact :)
     
    jaybee83, Dec 22, 2012
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