i had the same problem with my 2x Gigabyte 6950OC,one of them goes 85C and fans keep on 60%... i speaked with gigabyte support why is that card soo hot and asked them for normal working temperatures and maximum allowed which will not blow my card , they didnt actually answared me as i wanted but they say that it's normal, actually they said that this cards goes to100C on stress tests ,
to me after 85c is not going well

i currently manually set fans to 100% and hotter card keep around 72C if in my room temp is 30C card goes max 82 mostly keep around 78C

regards

:-) as i side very good package 11.7, currently play wow and lotro, and never lockedup, also the lowering of mining performance is not that high, 732-735 is lowered to 676-690 mhs during play.

@nafai - thanks you very much, will test it, hope it will help, but will be very strange to me if help at all

@ToriAmos1963 - thank you for usefull link, i currently installed 11.7 will test it around, first i see that my hash is keeping hell stable with same args, do not down-up from 732, before (11.6) it's change like a hell with this args when i start any other app, vlc drop it down with like 30 mhs, now looks like fixed hope also lock bug is fixed, at first look 11.7 looks very well done

@jpinconline - i have never have any problems with VLC, i fixed youtube (FlashPlayer) problem with @nafai, @streetuff, @haydent suggestion (FlashPlayer -> right mouse button -> settings... -> uncheck "enable hardware acceleration"), after i do that i never take freez from Flash again, worked 100% for me, to me 11.7 give around 2-3 more mhs but looks alot more stable, keep constant performance :-), but you have tested beta package anyway

@trasixes - video/flash is fixable with all drivers i guess, just that flash player hardware accelerations ;-)

@ToriAmos1963 - i do not think the crashes are something with cpu but it's just my thing , to me 11.7 looks the same as cpu usage, both of my processes take 13% my 3-th core keep around 70% usage, 5 and 7 core keep around 25-30% usage, looks like the same as with 11.6 package to me, i do not know if it's possible to be something about the 6000 series vgas, or this cpu problem is also with 5000?



going to test around options, let's hope lock will be avoided

aham understand,
thank you very much haydent,
let's hope soon it's will be fixed 

is that video acceleration you talk about is the same with
Catalyst Control Center -> Video -> AMD Video Converter -> Enable Acceleration?

thanks for replys

@nafai: you play games fine (without freeze) while mining with 6950OC?

hello i have one question,
i have 2x Gigabyte 6950OC (1GB 870Mhz 1250Mhz)
i am using 11.6 drivers and 2.4 sdk
my problem is that when i am mining
if i open any application which use 3d also flash player 10 (play clip in youtube.com)
in first 1 sec my mouse and keyboard block and in next 4-5sec whole system is blocking, keep freezed

any idea what can cause that?
befor this vga's i got 8600GT and 220GT, never have such freezes, just if i had set AGGRESSION=2 to my 220 (it was connected to monitor) and everything worked correct without nay lags or something

thanks in advance,
regards

p.s. i actually wants to ask this in https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13483.0 but sew that i am not able to do that and then i see that restrictions to the new users.