XFX Radeon 5870 - Fan runs at 55% in desktop mode

[Stoneburner]

This is the card http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product

I was putting together a system for my brother and I was trying to keep it quiet when not gaming. I thought the 5870's were quiet and low power unless they went to gaming mode. HOwever, this card runs at 55% fanspeed even when nothing is going on. I checked in ATI overdrive menu and it shows the GPU clocks at 130 GPU and 300 memory and it displays activity at 0 percent. There is no overheating either.

I can manually set it to 20 percent of course, but that would mean it'll keep running low even when running games. I personally wouldn't have a problem with manually changing it but my brother will have a problem.

So... what the hell is wrong? I installed 10.4 drivers. Again, there is no heat issue. Also, when booting up, the card runs at low speed but after it gets into windows (Windows 7, 64 bit) it speeds up.

 

[MagickMan]

Sounds like something is wrong with the default fan profile. You could install MSI Afterburner and setup your own custom profile and see if it works.

 

[Madcatatlas]

I truly and honestly belive XFX cards are rubbish. You could say im prejudiced to anything involving XFX, except for that cool ad/trailer for the 5970 4gb.

 

[solofly]

For me XFX all the way and I have ZERO issues with mine...

 

[Bill Brasky]

For me XFX all the way and I have ZERO issues with mine...

This. Love my xfx 5850, but I hated the default fan profile as well. Download MSI Afterburner like another poster suggested, and setup custom fan profiles. You can overclock if you want, but is unnecessary imo. In the lower right hand corner, be sure to check "apply overclock/ profile on startup". This app works the same for all 58xx cards, brand doesn't matter at all.

I set my idle fan speed to 11%, and I think I have a pretty darn quiet computer.

 

[Stoneburner]

Thank you both. I'll try this when i get back home. Even at 30 percent the fan is quiet enough for me.

I found some review on Newegg that mentioned this issue. Apparently the latest bios revision for this card has it default to 55 percent fan speed. Some have flashed back to an earlier bios but this makes the card hotter.

I call bullshit on XFX for this. Is it really that hard to have it set so that it is below 30 percent at idle but 80 to 100 percent at full load? Isn't that what other vendors provide! I got XFX based on the glowing praise they get. I'm sticking with visiontek or HIS from hereinafter.

 

[Ben90]

I truly and honestly belive XFX cards are rubbish. You could say im prejudiced to anything involving XFX, except for that cool ad/trailer for the 5970 4gb.

Ill join you on your anti-XFX crusade. Probably the worst VRM design on the market. For all you future video card buyers, stay away from XFX non-reference cards unless your pinching pennies and don't mind settling for a lower quality product.

 

[Rifter]

Yeah im seeing alot more issues with XFX cards lately. I own one and it OC's like a bastard, but will i buy another... Not a chance.

 

[Stoneburner]

Afterburner worked like a charm. I have it set to a linear curve so I'll have to check to make sure it works when the gpu is under heavy load. But for now, in desktop mode, There is blessed silence.

 

[MrK6]

Stoneburner, if you're interested/so inclined, load up your BIOS into RBE and edit the fan profile there and then flash it to your card. This way, you could correct the fan profile and not have to load up Afterburner all the time.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Afterburner worked like a charm. I have it set to a linear curve so I'll have to check to make sure it works when the gpu is under heavy load. But for now, in desktop mode, There is blessed silence.

Glad to hear you got it fixed up. :thumbsup:

 

[jemeljsh]

This is the card http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product

I was putting together a system for my brother and I was trying to keep it quiet when not gaming. I thought the 5870's were quiet and low power unless they went to gaming mode. HOwever, this card runs at 55% fanspeed even when nothing is going on. I checked in ATI overdrive menu and it shows the GPU clocks at 130 GPU and 300 memory and it displays activity at 0 percent. There is no overheating either.

I can manually set it to 20 percent of course, but that would mean it'll keep running low even when running games. I personally wouldn't have a problem with manually changing it but my brother will have a problem.

So... what the hell is wrong? I installed 10.4 drivers. Again, there is no heat issue. Also, when booting up, the card runs at low speed but after it gets into windows (Windows 7, 64 bit) it speeds up.

I had the same issue and I contacted XFX support:

I recently purchased a couple XFX Radeon HD5870 (HD-587X-ZNDA) video cards and the problem is that by default the FAN is constantly @55% not depending whether its load or idle. The issue is fixable while using one card together with MSI afterburner (using Catalyst Control Center proved to be with no effect whatsoever), where I can edit the fan profile, however the problem that I cannot fix is when I put these cards in CrossFireX mode while using two SLI bridges, I can only control one cards fan profile, therefore one of the cards still runs @55% all the time.

Within a day, they sent me new bios which fixed all of the above mentioned issues. Great support!!!

Here's the link for the bios and usb flash tool: http://xfxforce.com/en-gb/Help/Support/SupportFiles.aspx?Serial=L3H224514

 

[Interitus]

Love my XFX 5850. Never had an issue with the fan, I think mine runs at 40'ish at idle and I can't hear it over the other fans in my system.

Other fans are a mix of 6 120 & 140mm Yates @ 7v and the EVGA 758 NB fan.

 

[solofly]

No need for msi afterburner here...


Room temp is at 26C. Both of my cards are only 1C apart due to horizontal layout of the case.

While playing BC2 for example I don't hear my two video cards over the case fans and CPU. Temp only gets upto 77C...

 

[ThorofThunder]

XFX makes great reference graphics card. Emphasis on reference.

That isn't a reference card. XFX is known for making shoddy non-reference cards.

Avoid XFX non-reference cards like the plague.