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Tarscher - 11 Sep 2008 20:13 GMT

Hi all,

I have just purchased an Asus 4850 . I use Smartdoctor to control the
fanspeed.

For some reason Smartdoctor wasn't running anymore and when I manualy
started it it gave a GPU processor temperature of 100 C! I wonder does
this card has some heat protection or could this actually break the
card? Meaning that when smartdoctor is disabled or crashed, you have a
chance of breaking your card due to overheating...

regards
Stijn

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Flat Earth Society - 13 Sep 2008 06:00 GMT

Tarscher <tarscher@gmail.com> wrote in news:2d7f1ff4-3a1a-4baa-af2b-
d8909019de16@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
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> regards
> Stijn

The 4850 will speed up the fan by itself when it starts a 3D game that
needs better cooling. No need for smartdoctor. If you want the default
speed to be faster then there is a method to do it and if you search google
you should find it. My 4870 default was 28% and I changed it to 40%. It now
runs close to 20c less hot. I have the instructions on my other PC so will
post it later if you say you can't find the instructions.

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RF - 13 Sep 2008 12:33 GMT

> Tarscher <tarscher@gmail.com> wrote in news:2d7f1ff4-3a1a-4baa-af2b-
> d8909019de16@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
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> runs close to 20c less hot. I have the instructions on my other PC so will
> post it later if you say you can't find the instructions.

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=456350

I'm waiting for my own 4870 to arrive (Monday, hopefully!) so I was looking
this up before I installed it. :)

As stated in the article, you may want to try leaving it at "Automatic"
rather than "Manual" as that has worked for some people.

RF.

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Jing-Jing - 14 Sep 2008 04:54 GMT

> http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=456350
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> RF.

Here's another site with instructiuons and a video on how to do it too.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTU1MiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

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