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Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Weird high temp RX470 Armor
by
philipma1957
on 31/01/2017, 12:14:48 UTC
I have two MSI Armor cards, one runs at 75C/75% fan or below dual mining Eth and Dcr, one thermal throttles at 85-88C (reported by hwinfo/trixx) mining just Eth, since I manually disabled Dcr mining as the heat is a problem. Interestingly, the hot problematic one is like 88% asic, and undervolted to 850mV core/940mV mem controller (confirmed w/hwinfo) running at 1150 max boost (which it never reaches). Power draw is also low, around 60-70w VRM in. The fan is set to 100%, and it is spinning at 3200+RPM. Thinking it was a shitty thermal paste job, I repasted it but the temps are still shit. Card is less than 2 weeks old and has been running hot from the start. Any ideas why the temp is apparently so high? Thanks in advance.

Edit: The cards are at least 2cm apart, the same as my 9 other 470s that are all running well below 80C (there is a big box fan sucking in sub freezing air from outside behind my rig as well)

try to swap the entire cooler  with the good msi armor  see if the problem follows the cooler.


Also run only the 2 msi cards on a rig  with a lot of room to breathe.


 are they sealed new from a store or used from some guy

maybe they had a rom flash


Lastly check what ram they have   gpu-z  will show you.