Sapphire 7870XTW/Boost only 1 fan working

Discussion in 'Videocards - AMD Radeon' started by Dazza08, Jul 22, 2014.

  1. Dazza08

    Dazza08 Active Member

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    Hey guys and gals,

    As the title says my gpu atm only has one fan working. I noticed this because my temps ingame (dota2, bf3 etc) have gone up from 60c max to 75c+. I did a little investigating and noticed that my fan rpms were low like 700 during gaming when it used to be 1000 at idle. So i opened up my case and looked at the fans on the card and only one is spinning. I can get the other one working if i manually set the fan to 100% and anything below 80% the other fan stops spinning.

    Is this just because the fan is dying? Is there anyway to fix this as this card is 3yrs old and is out of warranty. Ive tried re-seating the fan pins, different 6pins used from different slots on PSU and still no luck.

    Any help would be appreciated :) Thank you and have a good day people!
     

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