Well... as magically as it fixed itself, it suddenly unfixed itself.
The fan suddenly shot up while on the windows desktop and has been full blast ever since.
So should I bake it for real lol?
I'm guessing that the only reason they showed such different temperatures is that CCC only supports 4 digits for temp. Notice that the first "GPU Temp" in GPU-Z is negative, it must have flipped around because the software didn't support values that high.
I fixed it...
I decided to run furmark for a while to "show" it what a real load was and what a real high temperature was.
So after furmark the sensors magically fixed themselves and the temps became normal.
Yay.
It's an Alienware i7-860 OC'd to 3.5ghz, it's been perfect until yesterday.
The card is a 100% generic ATI 5870:
Still working fine... but the noise is really annoying.
I've tried five different versions of the driver, uninstalling and running driver sweeper in between. I even unplugged my...
I upgraded to 12.3 the other day and today after a long gaming session my fan became stuck on.
I checked GPU-Z and my card thinks it is at over 1000 degrees!
I've already power cycled and re-installed the drivers but the temp sensors are still stuck.
Any ideas?