please help, problem with overheating

[GamerDude]

Change the fan profile settings. 85°C and fan speed at 38% ..that's too low

This, it's waaaaaaay off. Run it with standard settings (you bought a 6950 not a 6970, dead with it), judging from your postings in this thread it doesn't sound to me like you're too comfortable in the world of overclocking (or say "not so standard configs"), so for you it's better to just not touch it at all. If you are not 100% comfortable with applying TIM, check a guide or two out and see if you did it correctly. As for the whole stock versus aftermarket cooler discussion there is some truth to this but in no shape or form as much as some users claim. The stock cooler is perfectly adequate for cooling the GPU, although often noisier and warmer than aftermarket coolers, but never the less perfectly adequate.

Hi jeff, it doesn't matter that you had not OC it, by flashing your HD6950 to HD6970 specs, it'd run hotter. And as K3nny had said, that fan profile is way off, you have to raise the fan speed, no other way around this. I have three cards in TriFire, I'd raised the fan profile for my first and second cards, the top and middle ones, to 70% and it's loud, but it can't be helped since mine are in close proximity to one another. I have a TriFire HD6990 + MSI HD6970 Lightning setup, it does not run THAT hot, temps do hit ~80C under load, but I have so far had no heat related shutdown......

[jeffrey_rodriguez]

I tried setting the fan speed @ 45 percent its a bit loud but it still reaches 90 degrees.

i did replaced the thermal paste again last night,

observed the difference fron thin layer of thermal paste to i think is enough and blob of thermal paste. and i tried not to tighten the screws that much

this is the lowest temp i got so far, this is while furmark is running about 14 minutes on 1080p resolution.

the games dont crash anymore guys.

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/13/04/27/6ze.png

[mgsstar]

I tried setting the fan speed @ 45 percent its a bit loud but it still reaches 90 degrees.

i did replaced the thermal paste again last night,

observed the difference fron thin layer of thermal paste to i think is enough and blob of thermal paste. and i tried not to tighten the screws that much

this is the lowest temp i got so far, this is while furmark is running about 14 minutes on 1080p resolution.

the games dont crash anymore guys.

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/13/04/27/6ze.png

What temps do you get if you raise the fan speed to around 60%-70% because those temps are still quite high?

[jeffrey_rodriguez]

What temps do you get if you raise the fan speed to around 60%-70% because those temps are still quite high?

i can get about 75 to 82 degrees with the fan @ 65 percent......