hello recently bought a 7970 for 380$ white box version http://www.microcenter.com/product/...x_Version_3072MB_GDDR5_PCIe_30_x16_Video_Card I flashed to Ghz edition as soon as I got it, so I didn't get to see the regular temps for the card . Room temp is 65F asic quality in gpu-z 80 Idling Full load 20 min
That's a pretty decent cooler if it can keep GPU temp lower than room temp Load temp seems fine. Idle temp is high because of higher clock. It's either because you have a second monitor connected or you screwed up a little by flashing (and why the f*ck would you do it anyways?). Nothing serious though. GPU clock should be 300 MHz idle.
guilty as charged I am using 2nd monitor, HDMI out mirrored to tv ....:3eyes: and Yes I did screw up the flash, I tried to flash it through windows and partially wrote info before giving me an error, wouldn't boot from the card.. had to change the graphics to integrated, found a backup .bin in another forum, Dos booted atiflash, and flashed I thought everything went smoothly...so your telling me it does not overwrite completely there still some remnants of f'ed up bios in there? :bang: (Sorry thank you room temp is 65 Fahrenheit)
here is an update... MSI after burner user defined fan control setting enabled .. does this seem normal? update: disconnected the 2nd monitor... success!:banana: back to 31c idle at 20% fan thank you XBEAST!
