ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 - Overheat issue

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 1 lipca 2010 16:28 użytkownik Alex Deucher
<alexdeucher at gmail.com> napisał:
> 2010/7/1 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
>> W dniu 1 lipca 2010 12:08 użytkownik Donato Capitella
>> <d.capitella at gmail.com> napisał:
>>> Thanks for replying Rafal. I don't happen to be very expert with xorg
>>> power management, could you point to any relevant link? What options
>>> in xorg could be related to my issue? Has someone had this problem
>>> before? I could post here the output of some command to let you know a
>>> bit more about how my card and driver are working, but I don't know
>>> how.
>>
>> It's common problem, because by default GPU works in it's maximum
>> performance mode (highest engine clock, memory, voltage). Even when
>> you do not play any game, GPU won't downclock itself - it has to be
>> done by driver.
>
>
> The default clocks should be safe; that's why they are the defaults.
> However, dusty fans and heatsinks and poorly cooled cases could cause
> problems.  The default clocks are not always the maximum clocks
> supported by the cards.  There are "overclock" and performance modes
> that are higher than the defaults that we don't support at the moment.
>  The driver currently caps then to the default clocks.

I don't think Donato's problem is real overheating. That's what I
thought first while reading subject, but then I realized it's just
about higher temperature.

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Rafał