ATI Radeon X 1900 XTX

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I have one of the last ATI cards ever made, the X 1900XTX and I am testing it out on a win7 64b machine. In 70*f ambient it can idle up to 48*c - this is not good as it is not even summer yet. I tried ATI Tool for manual fan control but it doesn't work. I looked a little more on the net for answers so I just want to throw this out there and see if anyone can throw me a hint on what to do for manually controlling the fan speed. The latest drivers that will work are 10.2 and I haven't seen an option to manually control the fan speed, although I have not unlocked the overclocking option where it now normally. Only because I didn't see it greyed out.

 

[Qbah]

Any reason you want to use this power hungry, loud piece of outdated tech? Don't get me wrong, the card was great back in the day (I had a X1950XTX and loved it!), but today probably a HD5570 beats it in games... And takes a fraction of its power (and has passive versions too - no noise). And is very cheap, supports Flash acceleration and with UVD2 helps with the movies too.

Just wondering...

As for your question, since it's legacy hardware, I doubt AMD bothered to include any additional controls for the card in CCC. The only way to see is to unlock Overdrive and check yourself

 

[Termie]

I have one of the last ATI cards ever made, the X 1900XTX and I am testing it out on a win7 64b machine. In 70*f ambient it can idle up to 48*c - this is not good as it is not even summer yet. I tried ATI Tool for manual fan control but it doesn't work. I looked a little more on the net for answers so I just want to throw this out there and see if anyone can throw me a hint on what to do for manually controlling the fan speed. The latest drivers that will work are 10.2 and I haven't seen an option to manually control the fan speed, although I have not unlocked the overclocking option where it now normally. Only because I didn't see it greyed out.

Well, that's not actually one of the last ATI cards ever made, but it was one of the fastest DX9 cards they ever made. I have an x1900xt in a box somewhere.

Idling at 48C is fine. Those cards ran much, much hotter than modern cards. I think mine idled around 55C, with a pretty awesome cooler on it (HIS IceQ3). It wasn't a problem. Don't worry about it. You should be able to control the fan via CCC - you'd have to unlock overclocking to do so.

Not sure if 10.2 will be ideal. AMD says something on the 10.2 page about using Catalyst 9.3: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownlo...px?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.13&lang=English.

You could try using RivaTuner to control the fan - not sure if that's a supported card, though. Again, I think the temps should be fine as long as the fan ramps up with a 3D load. If not, then the driver isn't controlling it correctly.

 

[Skurge]

Well, that's not actually one of the last ATI cards ever made, but it was one of the fastest DX9 cards they ever made. I have an x1900xt in a box somewhere.

Idling at 48C is fine. Those cards ran much, much hotter than modern cards. I think mine idled around 55C, with a pretty awesome cooler on it (HIS IceQ3). It wasn't a problem. Don't worry about it. You should be able to control the fan via CCC - you'd have to unlock overclocking to do so.

Not sure if 10.2 will be ideal. AMD says something on the 10.2 page about using Catalyst 9.3: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownlo...px?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.13&lang=English.

You could try using RivaTuner to control the fan - not sure if that's a supported card, though. Again, I think the temps should be fine as long as the fan ramps up with a 3D load. If not, then the driver isn't controlling it correctly.

Yeah, those old cards didnt clock down as much as modern cards. Thats why they ran so much hotter at idle.