5850 Cooling questions

[grassy]

Hey guys,

First time I’ve posted here but not the first time I’ve ever use the site for info find these forums quite helpful!

I’ve been playing around with OC for a while now but first time I’ve tried with my GFX card first of all i wanted to get the most out of my stock cooler (ovisuly i won’t be OC it very much on this cooler) but for now i want to try and remap the fan speed graph on the bios I’ve been using RBE and Win flash to do so.

I made up my own map in RBE and then re-flashed it worked fine asked me to restart i did so, After i got back into windows i tried it loaded up a game (BFBC2) load on the GFX card went up to 99~100% temps started to rise... The fan speed did not... fan speed was at 29% ~ 75ºc in the fan map i made i set it to 65% @ 75ºc.

I tried to re-flash it a few more times with no luck...

My system OS is quite fresh, i have installed ATI Afterburner but i did not like how every time i restated my system i had to push yes on the WAC warning box, I uninstalled that.

The 5850 is a Sapphire.

Thanks much
Grassy

 

[streetfighter 2]

Firstly, insure that you didn't inadvertently set manual control of the fan to 29% in CCC Overdrive panel. Also check that you don't have any other utilities running that might be overriding the fan's firmware control (such as Afterburner, TriXX, RivaTuner, ATI Tray Tools, etc.).

If it's still not working then it might be that you have a non-reference HD5850 and therefore the fan profile is useless in the card's BIOS. If this is the case you'll have to use something like MSI Afterburner or Sapphire TriXX to do software fan speed regulation.

i have installed ATI Afterburner but i did not like how every time i restated my system i had to push yes on the WAC warning box

WAC? I guess you mean UAC? Is it really that bad?
Also, ATI Afterburner == MSI Afterburner?

 

[grassy]

Hey thanks for the reply yes I did mean uac and msi sorry for the confusion how do I find out if my card is a non-reference card?

 

[grassy]

Is there anyway to make uac like MSI Afterburner with out disabling uac?

 

[streetfighter 2]

how do I find out if my card is a non-reference card?

I don't really know . I googled it and this is what I found:
http://www.overclock.net/ati/705075-how-tell-ati-5xxx-reference-card.html

Is there anyway to make uac like MSI Afterburner with out disabling uac?

You're pretty good at stumping me eh ? LMGTFY (but I've never tried it because I have UAC disabled):
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Disable-UAC-for-certain-applications

 

[grassy]

Thanks for ya help mate I'm over it now and im just going to get a cooler for it using that msi afterburner I loose like 5~ fps because of the fan update I'm guessing it is non-ref because of that fps loss... Cheers man!

 

[grassy]

i fitted a Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro onto the card with the lil heat syncs that came with it for the VDDC phases etc.

Did some tests GPU down to 33ºc on idle but the vddc's where very high like hitting over 80ºc was not happy...

I didn’t want to buy any other coolers... So what i did after a lot of mucking around i put the original metal plate from the bottom of the standard cooler back on the card and then fitted the Twin turbo works like a charm! gpu temp low and vddc phases all low!