Well I've been spending most of the day trying to sort this out, some of you may already know I have recently had to RMA an old MSI Lightning 6970 and in return I got a refurbished MSI R7950 and I thought, fair enough, as long as it lasts me for another year and doesn't have any ridiculous issues I'll be happy. Low and fucking behold, I have run into temperature spike issues, normally the culprits as I'm sure you know would be things like, dust, case airflow or bad seating or a slightly loose plug.
So far I have found none of this to be the case, the damn thing should be working normally, after that it's normally a driver problem, I tried doing a clean sweep of my drivers and using auto detect but I had some very odd reactions from my GPU on it which makes me wonder how well this card is supported, I used the auto detect utility in the end just to be on the safe side but I pretty much got the same results. Games? Oh fuck me games are a whole other nightmare, you try loading up something like Dragon Age or Dying Light on this thing it will spike up to nearly 110 degrees for no fucking reason.
I would very much appreciate some help on this, at this point it may be easier day trading my way to a brand new card than dealing with the RMA process, just so you know, I'm keeping an eye on the temperatures using MSI Afterburner and Speccy etc. Oh and for some reason now the temperature has decided it's 35 degrees idle, that may have to do with the fact that it managed to shut down when I tried keeping it running to see how things went, I am also setting the fans to 100% on afterburner to keep things cool.
I daren't mess with games again because I'm worried I might trigger something lol this is a totally different graphics card so I don't know what will set it off.
Note: Hope I'm not speaking to soon but since my rage attempt at fixing the thing I seem to be getting stable temperatures on CSS, terrified of trying anything on higher detail though lol
Before I forget, here's a link to the exact model:
http://uk.msi.com/product/vga/R79502PMD3GD5OC.html#hero-specification I'll leave this here just in case it all starts going horribly wrong again.