Hello guys.
I'm new here, but I'm reading this forum from couple weeks. Because of this forum I started my own journey into Crypto Currencies world.
I bought used (but it still got 1,5y warranty) R9 380 Strix 2gb couple weeks ago and i started mining (couple hours a day and a few nights). I treat this mainly as a hobby, mining only Zcash (cards produce about 180 sols/s at stock clocks) and in the meantime learn about awesomeness of cryptos in general. I used MSI Afterburner as a hardware monitor and i settled a little more aggressive fan curve. Reading was fine, car under full load (mining or gaming in general) run at 65C at 40% fan speed. But I was curious what could be power draw. So i downloaded GPU-Z which didnt show anything different than MSI) and HWinfo. I was totally shocked when I saw 87C on Vram sensor. I immediately turn down miner, speed up fans and started thinking what should I do.
Vram is idling at 72C, during light task (ie watching movie). Is this could be a failure in sensor (vrams in theory should produce low heat)? My case is Phanteks Enthoo Pro, so airflow souldnt be a problem, PSU is Corsair RM650x.
Can you guys help me out? I dont think that mining/gaming on this card is safe in general (and I dont want to run fans at full speed all the time).
I think VRAM could handle about 125°C. You could buy heatsink for them, on ebay or aliexpress they are pretty cheap and thermal paste. Check for memory errors if they are hot it start getting memory errors or it happens to my RX 480 Asus Dual.
