About 2 weeks now I have been working a lot so I haven't been able to really play with my Gaming rig. I have an HD 3850 512 from Saphire that started going ape shit one day a few weeks ago.
Basically after a while the fan would reach 100% and then shut down the PC. First it happened in a fresh install of Quake 4. Now it happens in EVE too or any other game I play for more than x amount of minutes where x is the time it takes for the GPU to heat up.
It idles at 45c at 30% or at 100% fan strength. It slowly creaps up in EVE. One moment its going fine at 62-65c at full load and you think its all fine. Then 20 minutes later you do something that touches the video card and the fan immediately hit 100% and I loose signal.
Now, a little research on guru3d and techpowerup and the blurb on the new Rivatune suggest that there is a early bios mishap with the 38x0 series for the fan. Against my better judgement I even checked on the Newegg comments on the card since it recently hit 129$ AMR and some people have had the same problem... after a while the cards just seem to really frack up with the fan.
So I put on a fresh copy of Vista 64 and slapped on the 8.3 drivers and CCC and put Rivatuner on. I wanted to manually set the fan profile to always be at 70%. This seemed to solve the problems of overheating and I did play EVE for about an hour and a half before the problems started happening in Vista 64 too, as I was on XP 32 before. So I decided to up the anti to 85%. Fan is cranking higher, the app is working fine. Yet... bam... happened again. Now its set to 100% and well... it just doesn't seem to cool this summabitch after a while.
Anyone else having these problems? So I have a choice. RMA and hope its broken and gets fixed or opt to buy 3rd party cooler. I also had similar problems with my X1900GT, go figure. One this is for sure... no more saphire cards for me. I guess I will have to live with my 8800GS on my other machine for a bit if I have to RMA this one. Anyone else have any other suggestions?
Basically after a while the fan would reach 100% and then shut down the PC. First it happened in a fresh install of Quake 4. Now it happens in EVE too or any other game I play for more than x amount of minutes where x is the time it takes for the GPU to heat up.
It idles at 45c at 30% or at 100% fan strength. It slowly creaps up in EVE. One moment its going fine at 62-65c at full load and you think its all fine. Then 20 minutes later you do something that touches the video card and the fan immediately hit 100% and I loose signal.
Now, a little research on guru3d and techpowerup and the blurb on the new Rivatune suggest that there is a early bios mishap with the 38x0 series for the fan. Against my better judgement I even checked on the Newegg comments on the card since it recently hit 129$ AMR and some people have had the same problem... after a while the cards just seem to really frack up with the fan.
So I put on a fresh copy of Vista 64 and slapped on the 8.3 drivers and CCC and put Rivatuner on. I wanted to manually set the fan profile to always be at 70%. This seemed to solve the problems of overheating and I did play EVE for about an hour and a half before the problems started happening in Vista 64 too, as I was on XP 32 before. So I decided to up the anti to 85%. Fan is cranking higher, the app is working fine. Yet... bam... happened again. Now its set to 100% and well... it just doesn't seem to cool this summabitch after a while.
Anyone else having these problems? So I have a choice. RMA and hope its broken and gets fixed or opt to buy 3rd party cooler. I also had similar problems with my X1900GT, go figure. One this is for sure... no more saphire cards for me. I guess I will have to live with my 8800GS on my other machine for a bit if I have to RMA this one. Anyone else have any other suggestions?
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