Dear Tomshardware community,
A couple of days ago I was playing a game and I noticed some screen tearing so I decided to bump up the memory clock settings a bit and see what happened. At the time I was using CCC to overclock the card and didn't raise the fan speed because it sounds like a jet. Long story short, the card heated up and the game froze and I had to restart my computer. After a restart I no longer had the ability to change the fan speed of the card. It does still spin, but it never changes speed even under load. I've used MSI Afterburner and Catalyst Control Center to try and change the speeds. There was one very brief moment where I could change the speeds again while using Afterburner, but since then I've had no luck.
My HD 6950 is flashed to 6970.
Here are the rest of my specs:
Case: Coolermaster HAF 932 Advanced
Power Supply: CORSAIR Ethusiast Series CMPSU-850TX 850w
Mobo: ASUS P6X58D Premium
CPU: Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06 (OC'd at 4.0ghz)
Heatsink: Corsair CWCH50-1 (Self-contained water cooling)
Video Card: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256 bit (flashed to 6970)
Storage: Seagate 300gb HDD
80GB Intel X25-M SSD
Memory: 12GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1333
A couple of days ago I was playing a game and I noticed some screen tearing so I decided to bump up the memory clock settings a bit and see what happened. At the time I was using CCC to overclock the card and didn't raise the fan speed because it sounds like a jet. Long story short, the card heated up and the game froze and I had to restart my computer. After a restart I no longer had the ability to change the fan speed of the card. It does still spin, but it never changes speed even under load. I've used MSI Afterburner and Catalyst Control Center to try and change the speeds. There was one very brief moment where I could change the speeds again while using Afterburner, but since then I've had no luck.
My HD 6950 is flashed to 6970.
Here are the rest of my specs:
Case: Coolermaster HAF 932 Advanced
Power Supply: CORSAIR Ethusiast Series CMPSU-850TX 850w
Mobo: ASUS P6X58D Premium
CPU: Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06 (OC'd at 4.0ghz)
Heatsink: Corsair CWCH50-1 (Self-contained water cooling)
Video Card: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256 bit (flashed to 6970)
Storage: Seagate 300gb HDD
80GB Intel X25-M SSD
Memory: 12GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1333