Hey WelshBloke if you don't want it I would be willing to swap a GTX 460 + Money for your 6950 .
I recall when 60c + idle was the norm (on single cards/monitors). Still have a few old cards in other machines that idle 60-63. The idle is no prob, just focus on the load, even at 95c should be OK, although I'd look into ways of bringing it down.
Afterburner cant downclock this card (at least not for me) and it gets updated more often than rivatuner (I think).
Thats pretty much what I did with my old card (or rather the card I'm going back to).
OK, but Afterburner has a higher limit than Rivatuner does. Give Rivatuner a try and let us know how it goes.
Hey WelshBloke if you don't want it I would be willing to swap a GTX 460 + Money for your 6950 .
Lets take this to PM or FS/T. Thanks.How much money?
Lets take this to PM or FS/T. Thanks.
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Doesn't seem to want to work with this card, all the overclocking tabs are missing.
I'm curious about these issues with higher temps and no downclocking with dual monitors. I've never heard of it before, and I've been running dual monitors for 5 years, and haven't noticed any problems with the three cards I've had in that time frame (GF7800GTX, GF8800GT, HD5850).
As I sit here my 5850 is idling at 44C with the GPU clock at 157 mhz. Disabling my second monitor resulted in no changes to temp, clock speed or fan speed.
I have a HD6950 that's supposed to be getting here tomorrow... we'll see how things go with it.
Since both AMD and Nvidia have crappy support for mis-matched dual screen setup.. why don't you opt for Matrox?
Oh wait..
I'm curious about these issues with higher temps and no downclocking with dual monitors. I've never heard of it before, and I've been running dual monitors for 5 years, and haven't noticed any problems with the three cards I've had in that time frame (GF7800GTX, GF8800GT, HD5850).
As I sit here my 5850 is idling at 44C with the GPU clock at 157 mhz. Disabling my second monitor resulted in no changes to temp, clock speed or fan speed.
I have a HD6950 that's supposed to be getting here tomorrow... we'll see how things go with it.
Well, I've been running some benchmarks with my new 6970 (overclocked to boot) and it has yet to go over 63 deg C. Idle has been in the high 30's (though it hasn't really had idle time so to speak yet... LOL...) I'll have firmer numbers after a few days for sure. But I highly suspect, as before, that you do indeed have a dud card.
However the driver issue is confirmed. You do have to use the drivers from the disk or the conventional 10.12 driver, NOT the 10.12 preview driver, for the 69xx series cards right now.
I'm kind of in two minds as to keeping it and sticking some aftermarket cooling on as the fans a bit noisy for me as soon as it gets to about 34%. (this I'll freely admit is an unreasonable trait I have about computer noise).
I was thinking a Thermalright Shamen or Artic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus (could they get any more "rad" with that name?).
yes, apoppin, why don't you evaluate multi-monitor performance/nvidia surround/eyefinity with one and multiple cards from both camps in a future article? with the recent round of new cards that is definitely getting more people either curious about it or even adopting it.
If your 5850 is idling at proper 2d clocks with mismatched monitors thats great news and I'll probably get one after the 6950 goes back.
I'd be really grateful if you'd post back with your 6950 experience as well.
Haha I was semi-serious, no worries though I got a XFX 6950 for 260$ BNIB and I will test it out as soon as it gets here, now what to do with my GTX 460...I assumed he was joking, unless he wants to pay shipping from the UK!
Thats pretty awesome!
I've been doing some asking around and it seems like it will be possible to get the clocks down to about 250/700 soon with third party software and Afterburner will have voltage adjustments soon as well, so I'm feeling a little more hopeful.
I'm kind of in two minds as to keeping it and sticking some aftermarket cooling on as the fans a bit noisy for me as soon as it gets to about 34%. (this I'll freely admit is an unreasonable trait I have about computer noise).
I was thinking a Thermalright Shamen or Artic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus (could they get any more "rad" with that name?).
I'm also hoping that we get the new version of CCC soon as well as this one is rubbish! It really is worse that the one from years age, that one was ugly but at least you could find everything quickly (ish). It cant be that hard to design a decent UI. One big window, banner at the top, long vertical frame at the left with your major categories and a main frame with all the details of the categories. (basically copy Nvidias layout but keep the sliders that AMD uses)