ASUS 7850 DCU2 fan speed?

[Kastor Krieg]

OK, here's my brand new card! So excited! I uninstalled the nV drivers. I went to Safe Mode and used the latest Drver Sweeper on the remains. Turned to computer back on, with the 7850 in it.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! went on the fans at 100%. Huh, must be the drivers!

I installed latest Catalyst 12.4, rebooted. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! - no effect. Huh, must be the lack of fan control!

I installed the latest MSI Afterburner 2.2.1 and - WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! No effect, despite slider settings. Huh, maybe it's too "green"? Let's go for a dedicated tool.

I downloaded and installed the latest ASUS GPU Tweak...

Guess what I'm hearing now? :'(
It's ridiculous, the fan "duty" is per the slider. Whatever it is, 11%, 80%, left on Auto (both Afterburner and GPU Tweak, even on non-default fan profiles!), the fan actually RPMs at 4200-4400, one hundred percent, all the time.

I know, it actually screams "OC me, honey! OC ME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER OVERCLOCKED BEFORE! :wub:", but come on! I can't stand the whine :sneaky:

 

[Kastor Krieg]

Also, the performance is way below expectation. I mean, I'm not getting 30 fps in 1680x1050 in Battlefield with everything on!

I think it's just broken and I need to RMA

 

[Kastor Krieg]

I'm going to give the 12.6 Beta Catalysts a chance, but my hope are slim :|

 

[Phishy714]

If you are comfortable with it, you could always reflash the bios on it - might be something as simple as that to fix it. Otherwise, yeah, you need to RMA that one.

 

[Kastor Krieg]

At least the performance was my fault, I had the FXAA injector left in BF3. It did marvels for my GTX 460s performance, but 7850 somehow did not agree with it.

 

[Arzachel]

Stock performance isn't particularly amazing on the 7850, it's the headroom and scaling that makes the card. Anyways, sounds like the the fan controller is broken, you should RMA it.

 

[Don Karnage]

Remove the card and remove the stock heatsink so you can replug the fan into the card. I had that same issue when i reinstalled the stock fan incorrectly.

 

[Kastor Krieg]

Remove the card and remove the stock heatsink so you can replug the fan into the card. I had that same issue when i reinstalled the stock fan incorrectly.

Dude, I love you :wub:

Somebody tucked the power cable under the cooler and when I pulled it out I might've loosened up the fan power pin, as it does not have the lock on it. I did not even have to take off the cooler, there was a lot of space under it, so I pushed the power pin back in place and voila!

THANK YOU! :thumbsup:

 

[Don Karnage]

Dude, I love you :wub:

Somebody tucked the power cable under the cooler and when I pulled it out I might've loosened up the fan power pin, as it does not have the lock on it. I did not even have to take off the cooler, there was a lot of space under it, so I pushed the power pin back in place and voila!

THANK YOU! :thumbsup:

Don't mention it now get to overclocking