Thanks for that lightlord, I'll try it and see what happens, I just want to make sure my card doesn't melt though, that is all I'm worried about, is it fine at the temperatures I listed? I've been running it a little bit longer again and it's at 90 degrees now.
90 degrees+ Starts to get dangerous in the long run.
I have seen sources that AMD admits to its card that it can run indefinitely at 90 degrees
for up to two years or so. I heard this from a computer expert, and he has 20 years of experience.
But I don't know where he got that info.
AMD card has a limit of 105 Degrees, and once it hits above that, it starts to melt, or burn out.
Do note, that 105 is rated at its limit, and usually the limit is a safe limit.
So it may survive at 115 degrees or so for a day and completely burn out.
There is a formula online, though I would have to go and dig them out,
but above 85+ degrees life expectancy drops like a stone through the ground.
And its exponential.
I would highly recommend running them below 85 to avoid this drop of in life expectancy,
and to decrease the chance of a failure.
If you follow my steps above, and drop the memory and voltage,
you should cream off 10-15 degrees and get 80-75 degrees.
Which is smooth sailing.
When my card hits 85+ I usually start reacting to it, and
dropping its clocks so it stays below that.
I once made a mistake, and I was doing a run test,
and 30 mins later I came back and found out one of my cards
was running 110 degrees was about 10 months ago.
I literally pulled out the power plug *Not.
But cleaned out the dust, change the voltage, drop the over clocks, etc.
And got it much lower.
Do note that some cards can overclock insanely much and still under volt.
When I got my 7970 I was unbelievably shocked at what it did.
It god over clocked literally.
It went from 900 to 1180 stable 24/7 and I mange to drop the voltage from 1174 to 1156
Now I don't know how that's possible, But 7970 is the best card I ever had in my experience.
I have since dropped it to 1000 and dropped the voltage to 1061 from 1174.
Which is up from 900. And I wrote all the numbers down and found out that
1000 is the most efficient possible to mine at, at the top of the curve.
The more you overclock the power usage goes up in bigger steps.
You need to find the gold spot of your card,
and hit it there.
Drop your card to below 85 degrees and your good.
