Quote from: tospace on August 21, 2012, 11:12:43 AM

I recently got a dual fan 5850 (with a cleaned heatsynk). I'm trying to not run the fans too fast because I hear they go out quickly on the dual fan ones, one of them already rattles in certain positions when I got it but it was supposedly underclocked and used in lan party computers

Right now I have clocks at 920/500 and auto fan speed so its running at 88c/78% fan speed pretty constant right now. I'm not sure what I should do on a costum fan curve if any. I could lower the fan speed 10-15% with it costing only around 5c maybe so I'm just trying to get a good balance.

So yeah, I just want to know what the highest temp I can run my card at constantly for a few years Tongue

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Thanks

I wouldn't run it nearly that high. I make sure mine stay below 70. You're quite right to worry about your fans. The best solution I found was pointing one of these across a row of cards. I got one for each machine:
http://www.laskoproducts.com/max-performance-pivoting-utility-fan-model-u15700/

That said...you're not going to have to worry about running them for years. Maybe the next 2 months if you're lucky.