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

Tarscher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:2d7f1ff4-3a1a-4baa-af2b-
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> 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
>

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.

"Flat Earth Society" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Tarscher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:2d7f1ff4-3a1a-4baa-af2b-
> (E-Mail Removed):
>
>> 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
>>
>
> 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.

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.

"RF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:UxNyk.2246$(E-Mail Removed):

> 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.
>
>

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

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==