HD 7850 problem

[Cuky]

Hi everyone. Lately I have had a problem with my XFX Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition 1GB card. I got it used from a friend for around 70$ 13-14 months ago and everything was going well until about a week ago. My fan is slow to spin up and tends to loose the speed even if it gets to where it needs to be.

Usually it was running at default 20% setting at around 1100-1200 RPM, while now it is running at 0-250 RPM on that same 20% setting. When GPU heats at above 55°C speed setting for fan automatically goes up and when it gets at 40 or 50% fan speeds up and then keeps running as normal. When playing games GPU heats up to 82°C max that I have seen in this week since problems started but fan quickly revs up and everything cools down.

 

At first I thought those may be driver problems since I noticed that day or two after updating drivers, but I have tried it on 4 different versions of drivers (Crimson Sofrware 15.12, 16.3.2, 16.4.2 and 16.5.3) and it was the same. Then I decided to bring my pre-Summer PC cleaning a bit forward and have cleaned the card and dusted the cooler and fan off with compressed air. It was not that dusty to begin with because it is only 4 months since I cleaned it, but never the less I decided to do it even more thoroughly then before. I also tried to turn the fan with my fingers and it wasn't resisting the spin. There wasn't any grinding sound either (I had that when my case fan died) so I was even more confused.

 

While running there are no weird sounds coming from the fan even if I turn it up to 100% in settings.

 

Any ideas what I could try or where could I buy a replacement cooler or just a fan. Card is out of its warranty period so I can't just send it back.

 

Also instead of buying and replacing cooler I might be able to afford new GTX 950 or similarly priced AMD card in about month or two.

 

Any suggestion is welcome.

[Herman Mcpootis]

see if there are any broken hd 7850/r7 265 with the fan still working for cheap and buy it to replace your fan, find a cheap aftermarket heatsink to replace it or go ghetto and tape some fans to your graphics card

[SkilledRebuilds]

While annoying, can't you use MSI Afterburner to set a custom fan curve, so when its slower fanspeed than normal in the low-range, you add a bit more at that end of the curve in MSI's fan options tab.

[hex4]

XFX for Radeon 7K series were notoriously bad.

[AlwaysFSX]

I have that card, kill any custom fan curve you might have set and don't use them, and manually set the card in say afterburner to 100% and check that the fan ramps up to around 4k rpm.

[don_svetlio]

The fan probably went bad - grab a replacement from eBay. No sense in spending money on a 950 - that is not an upgrade

[partypanda64]

wait for the 1060 lol

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, partypanda64 said:

wait for the 1060 lol

That's Q4 2016 or Q1 2017

[Cuky]

@AlwaysFSX I didn't have any custom curves since I was happy with how it was working on default settings. Setting the fan to 100% either in MSI Afterburner gets it to max. 4192 RPM and it stays within 50 RPM.

 

@don_svetlio 950 is in my price-range, though I may be able to squeeze in 960. The thing is, I don't really want to go too high with new graphics card because of other components that aren't that great. I am running ASUS P5B MBO, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 and 8GB of DDR2 RAM and 500W power supply. I looked at ebay for gpu fans but I am just unsure which one would fit. I have until now never been in situation where I considered replacing just a small part of a component as usually when something needed changing it was because whole component died

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Cuky said:

@AlwaysFSX I didn't have any custom curves since I was happy with how it was working on default settings. Setting the fan to 100% either in MSI Afterburner gets it to max. 4192 RPM and it stays within 50 RPM.

 

@don_svetlio 950 is in my price-range, though I may be able to squeeze in 960. The thing is, I don't really want to go too high with new graphics card because of other components that aren't that great. I am running ASUS P5B MBO, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 and 8GB of DDR2 RAM and 500W power supply. I looked at ebay for gpu fans but I am just unsure which one would fit. I have until now never been in situation where I considered replacing just a small part of a component as usually when something needed changing it was because whole component died

950 is pointless - 960 will get bottlenecked hard. Just find a XFX 7000 series fan. Maybe look into an i5 2500 + Board