card running hot ?

son of spanner

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hi all

bit of a odd one I have a msi twin frozr r9 290 and in the last two days its been running hot wen im not doing much with my rig wen I pull up the amd control centre it shows high load all the time even wen im just in the desktop and not doing anything and yes I know they are hot cards wen pushed im fine with that as I've just ordered a water block for it I've tried a reinstall of the driver with no luck

is this a windows thing or something its peeing me right off as I have to keep the door open on my phanteks evolv help the fans are doing my head in lol
 
Sure it's not some trojan farming bitcoins?

I did think of that but did some scans and I only found a tool bar that I didn't install but that's a good idea I may reinstall windows just to be sure as I don't think its a hardware issue as ive benched it I get good fps good temps for a 290 lol and no crashing at all

and if I do a restart temps drop to 35c and shows no load being pulled so I think someone's pulling a fast one on me god knows how
 
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This happened to me yesterday with my 970, I tried everything from checking for viruses to uninstalling anything that might be causing it. The only thing that fixed it was reinstalling windows.

At first I thought it was the new version of MSI AB that I installed, but it wasn't that. I hadn't installed anything new recently apart from MGS:GZ through Steam, so god knows what it actually was that was causing it.

Just a couple of things to check just incase they may be causing it though, if you use Chrome turn hardware acceleration off in the advanced settings because having it on can cause high temps and loads.

Also, do you have a 144hz monitor? Sometimes if the monitor is at 144hz on the desktop it will cause your card to be on load and cause high temps. I have to set my monitor to 120hz in windows and set my gpu to use the max refresh rate (144hz) in games through the Nvidia control panel to solve that issue myself. Not sure how you do it with an AMD gpu though.
 
no I don't pumped all my doe in to the one rig but im sure now after doing some benching its some kind of bug that's found a way into my rig ill let you guys know how it goes after a reinstall of windows
 
I did think of that but did some scans and I only found a tool bar that I didn't install but that's a good idea I may reinstall windows just to be sure as I don't think its a hardware issue as ive benched it I get good fps good temps for a 290 lol and no crashing at all

and if I do a restart temps drop to 35c and shows no load being pulled so I think someone's pulling a fast one on me god knows how

Well that's odd, the bitcoin thing was just the first thing to come in mind if its running on high load even on desktop.
 
This happened to me yesterday with my 970, I tried everything from checking for viruses to uninstalling anything that might be causing it. The only thing that fixed it was reinstalling windows.

At first I thought it was the new version of MSI AB that I installed, but it wasn't that. I hadn't installed anything new recently apart from MGS:GZ through Steam, so god knows what it actually was that was causing it.

Just a couple of things to check just incase they may be causing it though, if you use Chrome turn hardware acceleration off in the advanced settings because having it on can cause high temps and loads.

Also, do you have a 144hz monitor? Sometimes if the monitor is at 144hz on the desktop it will cause your card to be on load and cause high temps. I have to set my to 120hz in windows and set my gpu to use the max refresh rate (144hz) in games through the Nvidia control panel to solve that issue myself. Not sure how you do it with an AMD gpu though.

im not sure I think it maybe something on steam as the only thing I installed was a game off steam about a day before I started seeing it act up

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ill be offline for a bit but as soon as ive done some testing ill let you guys know as I think someone may have hacked steam with some kind of bit coin miner it makes sense if your a hacker looking for hardware to hack and use were better then steam
 
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Could even be AMD doing it with some secret mining script in the drivers.... oooh it's a conspiracy! Hell they need the capital right now :lol:
 
I do believe I have told you at least twice before not to double post...

If you must post an important update on the situation, copy and then remove your last post and then post both again in one go. That way people can still see there was an update in the thread without it cluttering up.
 
well got a new install of windows in its working as its ment to so must be a hack and the more I look in to it more and more of the same story cards on full load wen in the desktop and not using anything anyone reading this keep a eye on your hardware as I did a scan and the bug did not show up
 
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