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Cerox 05-05-2007 04:51 AM
Radeon X700 + Fan is too loud
 
Hello altogether,

I have installed the proprietary ATI-driver for my Radeon X700. The driver has been installed successfully; glxinfo shows "Direct Rendering: Yes" as output, GoogleEarth is running satisfying - almost all seems to be perfect.

The problem is, that, with the fglrx driver, the fan of my Radeon-card is more active and louder than with the "radeon"-driver. With Windows I reach this loudness only by playing games, which need much resources.

If I switch to runlevel 3 (my distribution is SuSe 10.2, that means, no X is running), the revolutions per minute do not change.

Does anyone know a tool to regulate the fan of my graphics adpater? Is there a possibility to use another driver, which enables 3D?

qdlaty 05-05-2007 05:29 AM
try lower your GPU freq, list available modes by:
aticonfig --lsp

and then set to lower freq with
aticonfig --set-powerstate=NUMBER

You can also look around for a daemon that will dynamically control ATI's powerstate.

Cerox 05-05-2007 06:34 AM
Hi and thanks for your answer.

Code:
sebastian@sebi:~> aticonfig --lsp
    core/mem      [flags]
-----------------
* 1: 425/432 MHz  [default state]
Why there's only one powerstate available and how can I change this?

With Windows the fan must have different stages in which it is running because only in load the fan works faster.

cptcomic 05-09-2007 08:53 AM
Rovclock
 
Hi,

Try rovclock and "underclock" your card.

HTH,
chris

cptcomic 05-09-2007 08:53 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by cptcomic
Try rovclock and "underclock" your card.
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Cerox 05-11-2007 03:19 PM
Thanks for your suggestion. I'll try out this utility and post the results.

edit:
I have tested it now and if I set the core-frequency to 100 MHz, the fan is quiet enough^^

This can't be a passable solution. As I already said, the fan is always running at 425 MHz under windows and I can't hear the fan because I am not using ambitious applications.

Does anyone know a possibility to control the fan-speed?

edit2:
After my CPU temperature increased from 40° up to 70°, I decided to rechange the GPU-frequency back to 425 MHz.

Mystique77 05-18-2007 05:04 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cerox
Thanks for your suggestion. I'll try out this utility and post the results.

edit:
I have tested it now and if I set the core-frequency to 100 MHz, the fan is quiet enough^^

This can't be a passable solution. As I already said, the fan is always running at 425 MHz under windows and I can't hear the fan because I am not using ambitious applications.

Does anyone know a possibility to control the fan-speed?

edit2:
After my CPU temperature increased from 40° up to 70°, I decided to rechange the GPU-frequency back to 425 MHz.
I have the exact same problem with a X1900XT, except I'm using a 3rd party RPM driver package (probably the same driver I guess though?). I don't know what's going on, as displaying X is hardly graphics-card intensive (I wouldn't have though).

Did you find a solution to this problem?

Thanks and regards.

Cerox 05-18-2007 06:36 AM
No I still have this problem. I would underclock the GPU, but then my CPU temperature increases up to 70°.

Maybe I'll buy another fan/cooler for the Radeon-card and then I would control the fan speed manually with my fan controller.


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