- Nov 19, 2013
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I've been doing alright so far, my rig could handle all games mostly well, stable. But then I decided to try "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" on my PC, and things began going to hell.
I used to set my GPU's fan speed with Sapphire's "TriXX" software, and always worked perfectly for me.. Since for some reason those who built this GPU thought that leaving the fans idle up until the GPU hits 50/60°C was alright. But then with SOTTR running on DX12 mode, my PC's display shut down. I'll try to explain better what happened:
Out of the blue my monitor shut down, showing the classic "No signal" message. But my PC was still going, LEDs turned on, coolers running, all the show was still going on. So I went to see if my GPUs coolers were running and they were still, and its white light turned out (the one that I understand means "Trouble here").
Then set SOTTR to DX11 and so far, everything seemed to be fine, played for about 3 hours without any issue. After that decided to try Metro Exodus, which had set itself on DX12 by default. After a while, running stable FPS, the same thing happened. Set it to DX11 and thought it was solved, but then again, shut down.
Going crazy, removed my GPU and tried blowing air from my mouth, and using the vacuum to try to clean as much dust as I could (I know, not the best thing to do), but managed to pull 4~6°C out of this.. For some reason I thought that maybe TriXX was the problem, and decided to use Radeon's fan control, which is pretty limited. Tried Metro Exodus (on DX11) again and managed to play for almost 4 hours on a stable 50°C.. but here's the thing, after all of this huge explanation:
On Radeon's metrics I could see how my GPU's coolers went from 980 RPM to 2200 RPM pretty often, even when the GPU was stable at 48/50°C.
So, I'm really clueless now.. As to if AMD Radeon is the way to go, if TriXX sucks, if I should even care about the RPM jumping from 900~ to 2200 RPM in a second, and going back again, and if this has something to do with DX12, or if it's just my GPU. Or if I'm setting my fan progression wrong.
Above all, THANKS for reading all of this huge chunk of text.
I used to set my GPU's fan speed with Sapphire's "TriXX" software, and always worked perfectly for me.. Since for some reason those who built this GPU thought that leaving the fans idle up until the GPU hits 50/60°C was alright. But then with SOTTR running on DX12 mode, my PC's display shut down. I'll try to explain better what happened:
Out of the blue my monitor shut down, showing the classic "No signal" message. But my PC was still going, LEDs turned on, coolers running, all the show was still going on. So I went to see if my GPUs coolers were running and they were still, and its white light turned out (the one that I understand means "Trouble here").
Then set SOTTR to DX11 and so far, everything seemed to be fine, played for about 3 hours without any issue. After that decided to try Metro Exodus, which had set itself on DX12 by default. After a while, running stable FPS, the same thing happened. Set it to DX11 and thought it was solved, but then again, shut down.
Going crazy, removed my GPU and tried blowing air from my mouth, and using the vacuum to try to clean as much dust as I could (I know, not the best thing to do), but managed to pull 4~6°C out of this.. For some reason I thought that maybe TriXX was the problem, and decided to use Radeon's fan control, which is pretty limited. Tried Metro Exodus (on DX11) again and managed to play for almost 4 hours on a stable 50°C.. but here's the thing, after all of this huge explanation:
On Radeon's metrics I could see how my GPU's coolers went from 980 RPM to 2200 RPM pretty often, even when the GPU was stable at 48/50°C.
So, I'm really clueless now.. As to if AMD Radeon is the way to go, if TriXX sucks, if I should even care about the RPM jumping from 900~ to 2200 RPM in a second, and going back again, and if this has something to do with DX12, or if it's just my GPU. Or if I'm setting my fan progression wrong.
Above all, THANKS for reading all of this huge chunk of text.
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