VRAM temps

[johneva]

Aup all

I have got an X1900XT and am cooling it with the Danger Den Tyee waterblock, thing is I am happy with the rest of my temps but yet the VRAM is 10c above the GPU and CPU temps on idle. Is that right?

I thought maybe the contact for the VRAM was not to good so I took of the waterblobk and put on the pads from my old stock cooler, It really did not like this as I think it then lost contact with the GPU and caused it to crash when loading startup items in windows.

So I then just took it apart again and reasembled without the thermal pads. I needed to change my pants after this as you can imagine cos I thought I had bust the card messing around with it.

I have Overclocked it to 738/810
load temps are GPU-65c | VRAM-80c
Idle temps are GPU-39c | VRAM-52c

[Radical_53]

Seems a bit too high for a fully cooled card. GPU should be around 50°, VRAM around 60-70° when cooled by the block.

[johneva]

Yeah thats about right then if your saying the VRAM is normally 10-20c higher than GPU temp.

Just it sounds like I may have OCed it a bit far for my cooling.

When I say load I do mean running ATI tool, running games and even benchmarks it dont get that hot.

[Radical_53]

Clocks don't affect the temps that much, but voltage does. How much did you raise them above normal?

[johneva]

Yeah i know and quite a bit.

Stock
VGPU - 1.425
MVDDC - 2.086
MVDDQ - 2.086
VDDCI - 1.486

OCed
VGPU - 1.525
MVDDC - 2.121
MVDDQ - 2.094
VDDCI - 1.514

[Radical_53]

Well, there you have it. So from my point of view, the block should be doing it's job right.

[johneva]

Cheers mate ;)

Just wanted to be sure the VRAM should be a bit hotter.