| Tro1086 |
12-27-12 09:38 PM |
Were those temps you posted in C or F? If there in F then that is REALLY cool, but if they are in C, then that is a bit warm. You mention water cooling but then you talk about the GPU fan, so Im assuming you only have the water cooling on the CPU? If your CPU is water cooled then 67C seems extremely hot, you should get better temps than that.
You should be able to set your GPU fan to automatically adjust fan speed with heat increase, they normally do this from the factory. And if you get a program like MSI Afterburner you can create your own "fan speed vs. temp" graph and adjust it to your liking.
The problem may not be the GPU at all but could also be a problem with the ventilation of your case. My old comp just had a single large exhaust fan in the rear and a small intake fan on the side. The rear fan began failing and would only spin very slow or not at all, but I didnt realize because it was a pretty quiet fan. I would be able to game for a while but eventually without good ventilation the case would build up enough heat inside the GPU would overheat and system would hang, black screen, and forced reset, exactly like what you said yours did. The game I was playing most at that time was very temperamental to begin with (much like all SH5 games seem to be) so I just assumed it was a software problem with the game/mods/addons. I chased the problem forever thinking it was a software issue, finally to figure out in the end it was just my $10 fan had **** the bed. Put new fan in and game was running fine again.
I have water cooling on a AMD Phenom II 975 quad core and a Radeon HD 5770, there both in the same loop, with a 360x120mm radiator. There both overclocked with more voltage(heat). They both idle around 30-32c depending on room temp. The highest I have ever seen the CPU go while stress testing is about 45c, but it never gets that high during gaming. With Kombuster stressing the GPU 100% it will only get up in the low 40's. Before I had the GPU water cooled It would get up maybe in the 60's. It was a ****ty reference cooler and when the fan ramped up it sounded like a hair dryer. So to me the best part about water cooling is the just the quietness of it. A few quiet fans in the case and a few quiet fans on the radiator. No matter how hard you stress the computer the sound is always the same, no GPU fan ramping up sounding like a jet engine preparing for take off!
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