Hi, I reasently upgraded my GFX cooler on A Powercolor HD3850 256mb.
HD3850 stock cooler is a nice looking pice of hardware but don´t seem to cool GPU enough, both V-Ram chipset and GPU is on same cooler who get´s very hot. (idle temp are aprox 57c and under load 80c+) specially when OC.
I installed a VF700 and GPU was getting a nice cooldown, idle temp 35-37c and under load 47-50c. Nice, VF700 rocks at this point.
I´ve tryed 3Dmark and recived the highest score (+200pts) ever in my rig, most due to the GPU got a good solid 30c lower.
In a VF700 kit there are 8 small chipset coolers/heatsink for the mem-chips, I installed that and they fit good, but the stock cooler has a cooling solution for 8 small chips in the end of the card, they dont have heat-sink in the VF700 kit.
I took my old (stock) cooler and saw it to 2 pieces, and put the old small chipset cooler from that. (I'm not sure it cool the chipset enough, but what could i do?)
Well, here's my problem, In CCC (catalyst control center) when you start the OC panel, you can read and monitor the temp of the GPU core but there's no Ram temp monitoring so I download ATi Tool for monitoring and OC of GPU and ram chipset, but when trying to run a artifact test the mem temp was 96c :S WHAT? is that posible? They would burn in that heat.
And now I cant even run the artifact test, the driver stops when I try change anything in ATi tool.
My questions for you are.
What are the small chipset for and do they need a cooler? (8 small chips and there not the ram chips)
Is there anything wrong with ATI Tool, does it read the temp correct? could I've mess up that big and installed the ram-chipset coolers that wrong? Or could the 96c temp refer to the small chipset that got no serious heat-sink, only a home modded solution?
Is there another way of monitoring the video ram?
Any help is appreciated
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