The temperature of my old 8800GTX was always dependent of what speed the fan was set to, but my 6870 always seems to choose whatever temperature it wants to be no matter what the fan is set to. The GPU could be 44C idle with the fan speed at 40%, and not change at all with the fan at 100%. or if the card is doing something, the temp will hit, and stay at 65C weather the fan is at 40% or 100%. Just thought this was odd.
You're talking about when you set the fan speed manually? Manually setting the speed should change the temperature, however on auto settings the fan controller uses a control algorithm to keep the chip at a target temperature during idle/3D operation.
[QUOTE="AlexKidd5000"]Yeah, I'm talking about manually changing the fan speed.Marfoo
What are you using to monitor your temps? Perhaps the program you are reading is giving you erroneous readings, try another program? MSI after burner, and HWMonitor. Both say the same thing.
The only thing I can think of is maybe the ambient temperature in your case is in that mid 40 C range, in which case your graphics card would not be able to drop below the ambient case temp.
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