What is hot for a x1950?

[NONYA]

Mine stays below 55 during game play,Im setting up some custom fan settings and want to know when to kick up the fan,thanx!

[Cold Storm]

how long do you play??? it gets hotter the longer you play... if its stays at a cool 55c for longer then an hour or so, I'd keep it there... You need to worry about the heat once its getting to the peak in which ati tool shows you.. 90c.

[MadCow]

55 is a really good temperature for the stock cooler, no need to turn up the fan. Mine goes up to around 45, but it has an accelero HSF, better thermal paste and alot of air going to it thanks to my intake fan.

[thegave]

Mine doesn't go over 70'C out of the box.. Is 70 too high? I have it at 654MHz core right now. I have an X2 but just haven't gotten around to putting it on yet.

[acperience7]

Those are good temps for the Sapphires'. I have heard they commonly run around 80 C. when loaded. 55 is very good for a loaded card with the stock cooler. 70 is OK too.
I would have my fan speed increase at 65, but I'm a person who doesn't really care how loud my PC is.

[Kursah]

My rev 1, vrm x1950pro 256mb with AC X2 cooler rarely went over 53C fully loaded and slightly OC'd...the VRM's on the other hand would hit a very hot 120C (still safe for VRM's from what I've read...the card came with ceramic sinks on the vrm's to help with the cooling aspect).

From what I've seen the non-VRM versions of 1950's tend to run cooler with stock sinks..but ambient temps, good case airflow and cooling dynamics all have an affect on how your card's temps will end up.

I hope tossing an HR-03 Rev. A on my 1950XTX will get it closer to my 1950pro temps (~33 idle, 53 load)...as my XTX stock runs at about 58 idle and around 78-80 load until I crank up the leafblower.

:toast:

[candle_86]

lol, well I know its a diff card but my 7950GT before it died ran its fan at 100% up from 25% stock speed. And Kudos to eVga for replacing the 7950GT with an 8800GT

[NONYA]

My mcGyver cooler is dropping it 15 degrees,turned it off for a while to test it.I have the fan set to hit 100% at 55,so far it hasnt got that high with Mcgyver in effect
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[Batou1986]

just a word of warning don't up fan speed over 85-90 ish ati's cards have a nasty habit of having unstable fan regulators that some times zap a fan with alot more than 12V this happens alot when the fan speed is switched often from lower speeds to high speeds
in fact Arctic Cooling recommends not using the fan headers on the card for there coolers because of it

[NONYA]

iM RUNNING THE CARD FAN AT 25% AND THE MCGYVER FAN AT 100%,fan card is loud as hell and mCgyver is silent

[Kursah]

I've ran the X2 cooler at 100% (bios fan speed mod) on my 1950pro since a little over a month of ownership, never had an issue there. In fact, my x850xtpe has been running at 100% for close to 2 years, my 9600pro ran at 100% for years...no issues on my side. I'm sure Batou has his reasons for that suggestion, but I've never experienced it...and even if aftermarket fans on some of these cards (X2 on 1950, ATI Silencer 5 rv2 on x850), they were still connected to the card's fan header so still controlled by the card's regulators.

I'm not a fan of stock cooling solutions at 100% as they are noisy as you state Nonya, hell my x1950xtx is insanely noisy. Yet my X2 and ATI Silencer are pretty damn quiet at 100%, yet very effective cooling solutions for their applications..so I figured why not? So far no issues with stable, tried and true results.

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[imperialreign]

I can say that I've BIOS flashed both my cards to run the fan at 100% for any temps over idle - I don't have the ability to set those speeds from within any software . . .

no issues here at all though - but I do believe my rev1 ATI built units use a different PCB layout and design (meaning, I don't think my cards using capacitors are subjected to the insane heat the VRM cards are).