Why does my 6850 run at 100% (sometimes)

[pioneerx01]

I have just build new rig with HIS 6850, ASRock 870 Extreme 3, and 1090T.

When I play latest COD (Black Ops) all at maximum it runs fine, same for all Half life games and Portal (all I have played with new PC thus far). But if I play COD MW2, all at max the GPU heats up to 90C with fan at 100%. Same for Red Alert. There is no reason why it sould run 90C/100% on those "older" games when my old 9800GTX pulled it off just fine with no overheating.

Yes, I have the latest drivers.

Thoughts?

 

[treetops]

So are those older games pirated? If so they will not have the latest game updates which can make them conflict with your latest drivers causing you to over heat. I tried a crysis demo years ago and it ran like crap on my computer because the demo had not been updated in so long. But when I bought the game it ran fine on max. There demo actually crashed my computer a few times.

 

[pioneerx01]

It turns out that the Cacatlist Control center seems to be causing the issues. Once I uninstalled it the fan no longer goes to 100%. I can not verify it or the temperature, but you can hear that it is not spinning 100% anymore and the games seem faster as well...

 

[Darth Shiv]

Can't say I've noticed issues like that with my card. Maybe a bug with the thermal control of the control center. I'd look into seeing if you can set a max FPS on those games. If you can force that somehow, it should make the vid card work less.

 

[Lurker101]

You could always try using GPU-Z to check your GPU temps and utilization.

 

[Relic]

I would definitely recommend installing some third party software to monitor your temperatures. While 90C is within the limits, it's still rather high and you should be watched. I myself have a 6850 and personally never experienced an issue like yours. I am aware of problems with the XFX 6850's causing the fan to spin-up really high, like in your situation. However that was all the time, and XFX came out quickly with a bios fix. Just keep a close eye on the card as that is not normal.