4850 temperatures

[blaher]

I've installed an Arctic Cooling Accelero S1, Rev2 on my HIS 4850 which keeps the GPU nice and cool, but the sensors for GPU number two and three are extremely hot. Can anybody tell me where had these sensors are located, and if this is normal?
Thanks.

 

[ShadowFold]

I think those are the transisitor things that are at the back near the power connections. You should get some ramsinks for them because if they burn out the card will die.

Yes sensor two is the transistor's. Get some ramsinks or cut the one off of the stock cooler.

 

[NinkobEi]

that looks scary. turn the card off quick ;/

 

[Urbklr]

I am told those are VRM temps. Turn your comp of NOW! and get some ramsinks on them!

I have Zalman ramsinks on mine, with a 40mm fan directly on them, that gives me 70c load....they are hot

 

[blaher]

I am told those are VRM temps. Turn your comp of NOW! and get some ramsinks on them!

I have Zalman ramsinks on mine, with a 40mm fan directly on them, that gives me 70c load....they are hot

I do have a heatsink on the back of the card. I used a hacksaw to cut off the back of the heatsink on the original stock cooler, so I don't know why it is so high. I used the 8 RAM heat sinks that came with the Accelero S1, on the RAM.

Even when the card isn't under load and I have the case off with the house fan blowing directly on it, it's still pretty high.

Thanks for your replies, I'll try re-seating the heatsink, or buy some Zalman ones.

 

[erocker]

Are you running a fan on the Accelero itself? What kind of thermal material do you have between the heatsink and vrm's? Did you make sure that it's making good contact?

 

[blaher]

No, there is no fan on the Accelero itself, but as I said, there is a huge domestic house fan blowing directly onto it and I'm still getting high temperatures.

The thermal material I'm using is the stuff that came with the stock heatsink. A kind of flimsy rubber mat. Hopefully, as you say, it's not seated correctly and re-seating it will at least alleviate the problem. I can't do that just now, but I will do it ASAP and let everyone know how it goes.

Cheers.

 

[ShadowFold]

The fan might be causing negative airflow.. Try taking it off and see what happens.

 

[ghost101]

I've installed an Arctic Cooling Accelero S1, Rev2 on my HIS 4850 which keeps the GPU nice and cool, but the sensors for GPU number two and three are extremely hot. Can anybody tell me where had these sensors are located, and if this is normal?
Thanks.

Lol. Let me guess, this is being run passive. Hence no air moving over the RAM and VRMs causing very high temps. Especially Temps 2 which is the VRM temps.

edit: I see youve pointed a house fan whch has improved things. I'll repeat, you need more air moving over the VRMs. You need to strap on a 120mm fan or something. Since the cooler itself comes in no contact with the RAM and VRMs, you need to cool them as well as the aluminium fins. I hope you havent caused any long term damage.

 

[Urbklr]

I do have a heatsink on the back of the card.

The VRM's are on the front, the 2 packs of 4 chips, below the PCI-e connector, cool those.

 

[wiak]

try the turbo module, some people said that worked better
the stock cooler works nicly at 30% fan speed

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

Could you also give us your ambient temperature in the room?

 

[Urbklr]

 

[blaher]

Thanks for all your replies.

It turned out the flimsy thermal tape from the stock cooler wasn't sitting properly. I bought some extra heatsinks about the same size as the included Arctic Cooling S1 RAM ones anyway. I used those instead on the VRMs with some thermal adhesive, rather than the useless tape.
It's a wonder any heat is transferred through the stock cooler's tape, even when it is sitting flush.

Ambient temperature about 25degsC

Moral of the story is:

 

[poonsmjj]

Hi everyone,

just a question, have I done something wrong b/c I feel like my temps are a bit high.... I'm also using an accelero s1 with zalman heatsinks for the ram and have strapped a 120mm fan for additional cooling...



What's going on? Have I done something wrong??? Thanks for your time!

 

[Urbklr]

Have you cooled your VRM's?....If not, then do so.

 

[FR@NK]

See below for what the 3 GPU temps mean:

...there are three sensors inside the gpu die at different strategic locations

the locations are display io, memory io and shader core. all those locations are inside the gpu in different areas

You might not have your heatsink making perfect contact with the GPU core.

I've lapped and polished the stock cooler of one of my cards and noticed a big difference in temps.



This weekend I might polish the cooler of my other card.

 

[poonsmjj]

See below for what the 3 GPU temps mean:





You might not have your heatsink making perfect contact with the GPU core.

I've lapped and polished the stock cooler of one of my cards and noticed a big difference in temps.



This weekend I might polish the cooler of my other card.

That's weird... so it's all related to the GPU? I thought temp2 and temp3 were related to the VRMs at the far right end of the card. I have already put some zalman ram heatsinks on those as well... so it's just some heatsink lapping that will do the trick???

 

[FR@NK]

I wouldn't recommend lapping it unless you are experienced in lapping. You could easily mess up your heatsink. You should just make sure that the core is making good even contact with the base of the cooler. Anyways your temps arn't that bad and shouldn't effect the performance of the card at stock speeds.

 

[W1zzard]

you could have high temps if the cooler is not on evenly or if the thermal paste is too thin

 

[poonsmjj]

you could have high temps if the cooler is not on evenly or if the thermal paste is too thin

bingo!!! Thanks to you I tried resetting the GPU - I found out that I was having poor contact b/c i tried to push those L-shaped plastic tabs as far as I could... this resulted in the gpu and heatsink having poor contact.

Here are some new results:

 

[FR@NK]

Glad to see you got it fixed

 

[rav3n]

I think those are the transisitor things that are at the back near the power connections. You should get some ramsinks for them because if they burn out the card will die.

Yes sensor two is the transistor's. Get some ramsinks or cut the one off of the stock cooler.

what are those chips on the back of the card? can you post a pic?
i have a 4850 wc with mcw60 + zalman ramsinks on memory + small heatskinks on mosfets + fan blowing to the card
even with all that stuff 3dmark crashes during runs, so it could be any other component that is failing due to heating

games, furmark and ati tool are ok
in any 3d load application memory heatsinks are very hot to the touch
im gonna make huge homemade ramsinks, but im out of adesive tape. i´ve ordered it but e.t.a. is ~5 days

 

[tomcug]

You need to apply bigger heatsinks on VRMs. About that memory, you shouldn't worry about it.

 

[HSM]

Hi!
Is it possible, to monitor the temperature of the memory chips or the VRM part with the Radeon HD 4850?