6970 Idling way too high

[Nubfish]

I have had this XFX Radeon 6970 for a while now, but I've never really looked at it's temperatures. I did however notice the fans running high when playing heavily modded skyrim, so I looked at the temps and it was hitting over 100c. Of course I was worried so I took the beast apart and cleaned the old stuff off thoroughly and put on new Arctic Silver 5. Whereas before it was idling at around 76 it now idles at 68, which from what I read is still way too high, any ideas?

Here's a screenshot from GPUZ: http://imgur.com/5OtptCp

 

[shaheer ahmad]

seems like your psu problem...which psu r u using?

 

[Nubfish]

seems like your psu problem...which psu r u using?

I don't think that it's the PSU but this is what I'm using: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005

Also I don't know if this will help but here's some info on my GPU if it will help: http://imgur.com/tpwm6DU

 

[shaheer ahmad]

fan speed at idle?

 

[Cristi72]

Hello,

Your graphics card has the reference cooler (a single fan towards the back of the card) or a custom one? How about the airflow inside your case? Please post a picture with the inner layout of your setup.

 

[Nubfish]

Hello,

Your graphics card has the reference cooler (a single fan towards the back of the card) or a custom one? How about the airflow inside your case? Please post a picture with the inner layout of your setup.

It's the fan that the card comes with, it's not directly over the gpu but off to the back (more inside the case as opposed to where you hook up the DVI etc)
Here's some pictures of the inside and outside of my case (they aren't super great but you can see). There's a hard to see fan on the top left as well as one on the top and the front of the case, and the power supply (bottom left) has a fan that blows out the bottom.

http://imgur.com/a/vmS7u

That huge fan on the side blows right onto the GPU, and the wires aren't overly clustered, I think that the airflow isn't really a problem.

 

[Nubfish]

fan speed at idle?

The Fan speed on idle is posted in the first screen shot, 33%

 

[shaheer ahmad]

fan speed at idle?

The Fan speed on idle is posted in the first screen shot, 33%

my suggestion is that manage airflow and try to check this gpu on other pc.. it seems terrible

 

[Nubfish]

I figured it out for anyone having the same problem. Running two monitors one 1440 and one 1080 raised my idling temperature 27 degrees Celsius. Disconnecting the second monitor lowered my idling temp to 41 degrees Celsius.

I'm not sure how to mark this as solved.

 

[shaheer ahmad]

I figured it out for anyone having the same problem. Running two monitors one 1440 and one 1080 raised my idling temperature 27 degrees Celsius. Disconnecting the second monitor lowered my idling temp to 41 degrees Celsius.

I'm not sure how to mark this as solved.

use same resolution on both display screen... i'm stuck man.