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GPU auto-fan speeds not fast enough (aticonfig / linux)

ordoeordoe tehranMember Posts: 132 ✭✭
edited October 2015 in Mining
Hey guys.

I have two rigs and issues with fan speeds.
0) 2x HIS IceQ X2 OC R9 390X
1) 1x ASUS DirectCU II R9 270X and 1x Sapphire Dual-X R9 270X

The 390X-rig runs quite stable. But sometimes I notice the temperature is rising above 90°C without a notable increase in fan speed. I sometimes set the fan speed to 50% on both cards to keep the temperature below 80°C, but I think that's not good for the fans to keep them running at high speeds.

The 270X-rig also runs stable, but the temperatures are going crazy. The cards are at temperatures of above 100°C after several minutes of mining. And yet again the fan speeds do not auto-adjust (it seems). I have to set the fan speeds to at least 60% to keep the cards running below 80°C.

I am wondering: Why are the cards not increasing fan speed automatically? 90 or even 100°C as far away from healthy I guess!

Any ideas how to automatically increase fan speeds without manually monitoring the devices all day long?

The rigs are open and well ventilated. It's just the fans not kicking in hard enough. Any way to adjust the auto-settings?

Cheers
ordoe

Edit: Ubuntu 15.04, AMD proprietary drivers 15.9
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  • MrYukonCMrYukonC Member Posts: 627 ✭✭✭
    I think the best thing to do is manually set the fan speeds (like you have been) to something that keeps them safely cool under all circumstances.

    60% fan speed is not a problem. I had many of my cards running with fan speeds at 80% - 95% before I built custom cases. Now they all run around 45% - 55% and stay a lot cooler, as well.
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  • ordoeordoe tehranMember Posts: 132 ✭✭
    Ok thanks for sharing this. I was reading on gamer forums that people freak out if someone runs fans on 70% because they could burn out fast.

    But my main question remains, why aren't the fans kicking in even at 100° ?
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  • MrYukonCMrYukonC Member Posts: 627 ✭✭✭
    I think it's an AMD driver issue. I've read about it elsewhere online.
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  • hangabershangabers Member Posts: 63 ✭
    Is there a bios switch on the card? If so flip it, should switch to the "turbo" bios. But the Asus card may have just duplicated the bios on both end of the switch; the idea being one can be a backup if you messed when customizing one of the bios' after a flash. XFX has done this, both bios come stock flashed set in turbo.
    I think some cards are locked to max 70%.

    As for the 100 degree issue, that sounds like a driver issue as you say I was always under the impression that the cards would simply shut off at like 90ish degrees.


    Also from what i've read, gamers are wrong. Games have fluctuating resource use causing fans to spin up and down as needed.

    Mining is a consistent work load, fans will stabilize at one speed.

    High speeds are less of a concern for the long term health of the fans.
    Constantly going from low to high speeds all of the time is MUCH harder on the longevity of a fan.

    Chip temps are your biggest concern, having a GPU at 90degrees over a week is harder on the chip than 70degrees.

    So if you are ok with the sound, try and find a stable speed that keeps your temps lower. If you trust the build quality of the cards, then let the fans spin higher. But they should still be spinning higher than you think overall anyway.
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  • ordoeordoe tehranMember Posts: 132 ✭✭
    @hangabers thanks for your comments.

    I created a shell script which keeps track of gpu temperatures and sets fan speeds accordingly. It also creates a html dump so I can monitor them from remote any time. And it logs the temperatures to CSV. That why I see if there were any issues during the day.

    Now my cards run between 60 and 80 C with fan speeds of 40-55%. Stable setup.
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  • hangabershangabers Member Posts: 63 ✭
    Damn that's rad! Have you put it on GitHub?

    Does it work on Ubuntu?
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  • ordoeordoe tehranMember Posts: 132 ✭✭
    hangabers said:

    Damn that's rad! Have you put it on GitHub?

    Does it work on Ubuntu?

    Yes, using it with Ubuntu 15.04:
    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2fb7bf2aa2eee0d929fd
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  • ordoeordoe tehranMember Posts: 132 ✭✭
    The cronjob is not included, but you could simply add a line at the end of the loop which rsyncs the html and csv to a server.

    I also thought about adding highcharts which reads the csv, but I couldnt wrap my head around the highcharts API yet :-)
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