Originally Posted by
Saint
Woah, dude, 80'C is a lot for a GPU. I've got stable 50'C, and it even should be at 30-40'C with better cooling.
GPUs tend to survive temperature up to around 90-100°C.And you can't really take the temps below 50°C on a high/medium-end card(laptops tend to get even hotter, due to lack of cooling, I had my old lap's intel's
processor at above 100°C, and worked fine) unless you use watercooling, although it is not common in laptops(I've seen it once though).
I keep my 6970 at around 70°C, or 80°C max.
To OP:
I suggest reinstalling drivers, newer, or even older ones.Try the older drivers just if everything else fails. As I can see the GPU downclocks itself, as if it was in "standby/power saver mode"Damn, just realised you closed the game, that's why.(the fan stays at 30%, so it shouldn't be a cooling problem, but you can check it by speeding up the fans manually in afterburner, and trying the game that way, and check for slowdowns), so I suspect either driver or directx(?,anyone confirm this.) issue there.
Or there might be an another software interfering, I'd make a clean, selective boot, and I'd try running a game without gamebooster too.
Last edited by GamerDaPro; Dec 1, 2012 at 09:31 PM.