4890 crossfire clocks

[G-sus]

I have 2 XFX 4890 cards in crossfireX, I noticed when I start up my PC, the first card tunes itself down to 240MHz, but the second one does not, it stays at 850, this keeps the temps higher until I run any 3D application, only after exiting, both cards clock down and the second card temps go down by 4-5°C. This is more of an annoyance than a problem, but I'd still like to remedy it. Any ideas?

 

[whosbawss]

I had a similar problem on my card but it was the BIOS that kept clearing on the card.

 

[seumasbeathan]

On a side note, those must be hot power hungry bastards

 

[Rich_]

i didnt know 4890's existed, Probably a real stupid question: are there 4870's too?

 

[I Hunta x]

i didnt know 4890's existed, Probably a real stupid question: are there 4870's too?

4830, 4850, 4870, 4890 aswell as 4850x2 and 4870x2's the 4800 cards had a fairly large range

 

[Rich_]

sounds like the 4800's were the golden age of gpu's lol

 

[JustJoe]

The 4890 was a decent card. Well still is.

 

[G-sus]

They're very capable cards, quite toasty though, in summer with the stock cooler I had them go all the way up to a 100 and shutdown at 110. I'm still running the stock cooler with a custom fan, so now it idles at 45-50 and on load goes up to 70-75. As far as games go, I'm running Hitman Absolution at 1920x1080 on ultra and I still get decent fps, rarely goes below 30.

 

[whosbawss]

On a side note, those must be hot power hungry bastards

I will second that!