AMD HD 7800 GPU overheating problems

[Capsaicin]

Configs:

AMD Radeon HD 7800

Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H

Intel 3770K @3.5GHz

16GB RAM

180GB SSD + 1TB HDD

 

Using GPU-Z 2.1.0, shows that the fan on the GPU is only spinning at 33% at all times, even when temperatures reach over 80 degrees C. It rarely kicks to more than 50% when gaming, so resulting in the GPU resetting itself (or at least I think it does) to prevent it from overheating. In addition to this, it limits the clock speeds to half of its default speed, reducing fps in games to a mere average of 14 fps, no matter how low the graphics are.

I'm not really in a position to switch out any parts of my system at the moment, so if there's any solution to fix this problem would be much appreciated. 

[flibberdipper]

Download MSI Afterburner and make a custom fan profile. Problemo slolverino'd.

[Capsaicin]

1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Download MSI Afterburner and make a custom fan profile. Problemo slolverino'd.

Will try, thanks for the suggestion, and I'll update on how things go.

[AshleyAshes]

I'm not sure what driver version you're running, but about a year ago there was a bug relating to my HD 7950 where if you made ANY clock adjustments it BROKE the fan control, leaving it ONLY running at 20% until it overheated, where THEN it'd run at 100% while throttling until it cooled off enough that it could go back to 20% and stop throtteling and it'd just see-saw like that unless you reset all overclocking settings  And it didn't HAVE to be overclocking, you could just try to override the fan profile and leave all clock settings and it'd still go stupid.  but they eventually fixed it in a driver update.

[LooneyJuice]

35 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I'm not sure what driver version you're running, but about a year ago there was a bug relating to my HD 7950 where if you made ANY clock adjustments it BROKE the fan control, leaving it ONLY running at 20% until it overheated, where THEN it'd run at 100% while throttling until it cooled off enough that it could go back to 20% and stop throtteling and it'd just see-saw like that unless you reset all overclocking settings  And it didn't HAVE to be overclocking, you could just try to override the fan profile and leave all clock settings and it'd still go stupid.  but they eventually fixed it in a driver update.

Yes... This bug killed one of my cards a year ago... I caught it running at 102C a couple of times. It was nasty.