Overheat and flickering

[NunezB]

Hello. I actually have two issues. My graphics card gets so incredibly hot when game that I can actually burn myself if I touch it and eventually my screen would go black. I have a AMD Radeon HD 5800 series. So I downloaded AMD Radeon software to control my fan speed. I increased my fan speed to 40% which lowered the temperature by a lot. This also installed a video driver I believe even though I have the latest one. Now my screen will flicker real quick every so often. If I try to instill the video driver everything goes crazy. So can anyone give some ideas. Thanks. I am using Windows 10

 

[James Mason]

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

 

[NunezB]

What do I do regarding the overheating? Is there any other good programs that will let me control my GPU fan speed.

 

[James Mason]

What do I do regarding the overheating? Is there any other good programs that will let me control my GPU fan speed.

Clean the dust out of your pc:
http://www.howtogeek.com/72716/how-to-thoroughly-clean-your-dirty-desktop-computer/

Add more case fans if possible.
Put the computer in a cooler room.
Increase the fan speeds even more.

 

[NunezB]

How do I increase my fan speeds. What is the best program to use?

 

[James Mason]

How do I increase my fan speeds. What is the best program to use?

The one you were using works fine.

What are you looking for in a fan control program that the radeon software doesn't provide?

 

[NunezB]

That program is installing extra video drivers when I already have the latest one. I don't understand why it does that. I did a fresh install and had all drivers up to date. As soon as I downloaded that program it installed an extra driver which caused all the issues. It does not give you the option to not install the driver.

 

[James Mason]

MSi Afterburner is a popular overclocking software that also allows you to adjust your fan speeds:
https://gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner
You don't have to do any overclocking with it, but generally OCers need to adjust their fan speeds.

 

[James Mason]

Well, here's the drivers specifically for your GPU, because it's so old, they don't actually release any new ones for it:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows+10+-+64