Ati tool hd 3850 agp

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Hello techPowerUp forum, I posted this in the sticky thread, but I'm not getting much replies. I noticed that the default core clock is set at mhz and not mhz like the powercolor model of it. Is this how it's suppose to be? My temperature in the beginning idled around the high 70's and at times, it would spike all the way up to 93C under load.

So I read up a bit on it and found out I might have to disable low-level fan control and re-enable it in order for the fans to spin at the speed I want it to. This is still high considering it's on idle and the idle temperature at a core clock of mhz was around 59C or so. This is about a 10C difference and I'm wondering if this is normal?

When I play games, it would go up to C and not 93C like when I originally tried it. Should I set it back to it's default settings or should I keep it at this setting?

I heard that this video card can go up to 85C without any complications at all. Running at around 70C on idle, is this safe at all? It doesn't seem safe to me, but I noticed a pretty big difference in my gaming compared to when it was not overclocked at all. OneMoar There is Always Moar. Joined Apr 9, Messages 8, 1. Joined Feb 24, Messages 0. Its an energy saving thing. Your temps seem about right for that gpu the sapphire version has a rather poor cooler fitted.

I've emailed Sapphire's tech support to ask them whether I should use the 8-pin PCI-e adaptor or continue with the 6-pin one I'm using now.

I may try the adaptor anyway to see if the card performs the same. I suspect they'll tell me to use the adaptor myself but we'll see The 30A recommendation is for powering the complete system and includes a good deal of overhead.

The card alone only draws about 7A. Makalu , Nov 18, Well although I got a quick email reply from Sapphire, they didn't answer my query so I'm still none the wiser on which method is the best one to use. I appreciate the replies though but it looks like I'm going to have to experiment with them both The graphics card appears to be working exactly as before, games play fine, no crashes so far I didn't test Fallout 3 though!!!

So far so good I'm going to email Sapphire again though but I'll be direct this time so they don't go on and mention something totally different which I wasn't asking about!!! Darren Hodgson , Nov 18, The amount of voltage drop would be slight and the cards DC-DC converters will compensate. I started thinking about 4-pin as 6-pin for some strange reason I have a PCI-e connector on a 10A rails and it was not enough to boot the card Moved to the PCIe connector on a 18A rail and it was fine.

Last edited: Nov 19, Spathi , Nov 19, Right an update on this thread and final closure I finally received an email from Sapphire this morning that answered my original query. They went on to say that the adaptor will provide 20A which is more than sufficient for the card. Whatever, my graphics card is working and I can play Fallout 3 at long last so happy on both counts.

Darren Hodgson , Nov 19, Makalu , Nov 19, It was struggling to read discs and the tray wouldn't open. Now it seems to be working fine and I'm installing Mass Effect. I can only assume that it wasn't getting enough power due to the graphics card using the line too.

Hopefully the BSODs I was getting with Fallout 3 weren't related to my graphics card not getting enough power and were because ffdshow was installed.