5870 ridiculously hot on boot up.

[individual]

I booted my new system, without the hard drive installed, just to see if everything works ok, and once it gets to the screen saying "insert boot media, press any key to continue" or whatever it is, if i leave it sitting on that screen for about a minute, the 5870 starts to get hot, like really hot, for it not doing anything. putting my hand over the exhaust vent it feels like its getting up to about 70 degrees, and the back plate around the core feels the same.



My system is the Asus P6T6 WS revolution motherboard
enermax Revolution 85+ 1050w PSU
core 17 940 2.93Ghz with a coolermaster v8 cooler
6GB G.Skill Trident series 1600Mhz 6-7-6-18
Sapphire 5870

It "boots up" fine as the asus heartbeat starts up when it gets to this screen (for those of you who know what it is)

everything is at stock voltages/frequencies atm.

any ideas whether this is normal or not?

[Serpentarius]

maybe we should "entice" you to go for watercooling ...

[Kurz]

The Video card temps is the main reason why I ventured into water cooling.

[Linuxfan]

My 5870 on the stock cooler with stock fan speeds and settings doesn't go over 60C idle and most of the time its in the high 40s idle.
You may want to either turn up the fan speed a little bit or take the cooler off of the card and redo the mount and thermal paste.

[individual]

I am set up for watercooling, have one radiator so far, if you have a look at the project log http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=243564

I know what stock coolers are generally capable of, and i havent changed anything on the graphics card, its straight out of the box, so the cooler should be fine.

What I'm asking is, is this normal?

[LagunaX]

I bet it will be just fine once you install an operating system and it finds either the default windows 7 ati driver or the newest catalyst driver you install.

[janolle]

I bet it will be just fine once you install an operating system and it finds either the default windows 7 ati driver or the newest catalyst driver you install.

My vote on this. My card gets awfully hot when I roam a round setting bios settings. My ears tell me that it's not far from the heat it gets from gaming.
The same thing happened with my HD4890 so I'm betting it's just the lack of powersaving features without any loaded drivers.

[ChaosAD]

When i enter win7, temps are around 58-59C. After that gfx temps drop at 32-33C which is the idle temp. So dont worry, install drivers and your temps will drop.

[8800's@over]

I'm changed a thermal paste to MX-3.

My card runing 950/1300MHz 24/7 stock voltages.

Temp: 37°c Idle (37%) / Furmark Stress 72°c (70%)

[zalbard]

Boot up clocks are high, and fan speed is low. Hence high temps. Nothing to be worried about.
Get into Windows so it can downclock itself.