Didn't get any crashes, but I also didn't hear the fan spinning up. I was playing Crysis on mine at 1920x1080 resolution, 4x AA, very high settings, and about an hour into playing I was getting graphical artifacts when things were burning in game, and also on the textures on some of the gun attachments. I'm running a 5870 in my desktop rebuild, and I think there may be some issues with the fan speed management. I have a noctua PC12 cooler on the CPU and it is very good keeping it at 25/50 in idle/load.īoth cards work independently fine so far. I'm using a Lian Li V1110 case with air cooling only. (maybe the tvtuner gets hot itself and transfer the heat to the gpu that it is almost touching) But the problem with the TvTuner is still there. As for the open case config, I tried that and the temps do go down like 5 to 10 degrees for each component (CPU, GPU, NB, etc). I hadn't noticed the double Xfire bridge, I'm going to try that when I get back from work. I hope something I rambled about is of use to you! If both cards fail the test independently, then start looking towards other hardware.Īre you using only one Xfire bridge? That may also be an issue, as I noticed in the Guru3D review of xfire 5870s, they are using two: If the problem persists, test each card independently, to see if you can narrow it down to a GPU issue. It is a simple test, that if it passes without issue, points directly at a heat issue. Try running the computer with the side panel off and a fan blowing on it. You haven't mentioned your PSU or the cooling used in your case. Sounds symptomatic of a power or a heat issue. Also, My TVTuner cannot be used sometimes cuz it causes a GPU Throtlle up and a consequent restart. So far, the attempt at benchmarking melted an HDMI cable and a Xfire bridge. Later I realized the computer wouldn't boot with a second card, so I changed the XFire bridge, and Voila! everything worked. After changing the Cable I was able to use only one of the cards. I figured it was the HDMI cable, somehow 3dmark melted the cable? or something else happened. Then I got a 7F code on the mobo and no display. Notice maybe less than half an inch of space between each of the cardsĪlso, the first time I built the system it ran fine, but when I tried to run a benchmark using 3d mark, the computer shut down. Notice this only happens when using the TV Tuner card ( and with one of the channels, strange enough) Sometimes while watching HDTV using the Haupauge TV Tuner card the cards throttle up and the displays goes out for a few seconds. My temps when idle are 34 for the second card and 43C for the first one(the one connected to the monitor), These seem pretty normal to me, However the problem is that when they're under load the temps rise to 75 and 87C for the second and first card respectively.Īre these temps normal? The fans never go over 50% if I can recall correctly. these two generate a lot of heat when put together. I have 2 HD5870's crossfired in a EVGA Tri SLI X58 motherboard. However, I have a few questions I'd like to share. Now I've built it and the pics will be here soon. I posted two questions about my rig a couple of weeks ago( I7 920, 6GB Mem).
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