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Re: My initial Radeon HD 7970 mining benchmarks
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DiabloD3
on 10/01/2012, 23:24:10 UTC
I can't wait till the 7990 that is going to be impressive but expensive  Sad I might have missed this but what is the heat like hashing overclocked ? and what fan speed

Overclocked @ 1125/975MHz with automatic fan speed I'm getting temperatures hovering 81-83C, and the fan runs at 47-49% speed. You can see some screencaps on one of the earlier pages. But since I prefer lower temperatures and am worried about VRM and memory temps not yet being reported by GPU-Z, I usually run it at 60% fan speed and get temps around 72C. The blower fan at 60% speed is quite loud (its a reference design from Sapphire).

At 100% fan speed, the overclocked card gets below 60C while mining but you can hear it from outside of the house at this point Tongue, so as lovely as these temps are this is not an option for me as it is also my gaming and work PC.

As a reminder, 100% fan speed is a good way to kill the fan, they were never meant to be ran that high.

Don't go above 85%.