GPU Temps

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 22 Sep 2006, 10:07

Hello Everyone.

A quick question. What temps are your graphics cards running at? I see in the Nvidia control panel the slowdown temp is 125. My GPU doesn't peak above 73 at full load (Playing oblivion for a few hours)

Im just trying to see if my temps are within the normal range for a GPU.

Card is a Gainward Golden Sample 6800GS at 485 GPU and 1415 mem

Thanks.

Post by **ryanrich** » 22 Sep 2006, 10:25

My X800XT PE is around 38 degrees C at full load as far as I remember... That's on water cooling.

_Gerbz_ · Post by **_Gerbz_** » 22 Sep 2006, 10:28

Thats one nice temp you got there. My Radeon X1300 Pro full load is about 45. Thats after I modded my case for better airflow. Been wanting to move to watercooling but

not to sure that it will be worth it

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 22 Sep 2006, 10:50

The slowdown threshold temp is 115 default.

73 is fine after stress though it can be reduced I'm sure.

It's however nothing to worry about as is.

Post by **ryanrich** » 22 Sep 2006, 11:36

_Gerbz_ wrote:Thats one nice temp you got there. My Radeon X1300 Pro full load is about 45. Thats after I modded my case for better airflow. Been wanting to move to watercooling but not to sure that it will be worth it

It was way worth it for me! Had water cooling for about 2 and a half years now and will never go back to air...

My PC is on almost 24x7 so I needed it to be quiet. Temps are obviously much better as well, I have 3 blocks running on mine, CPU + GPU + Northbridge. My CPU is a 2500+ clocked at 2.4GHz on 1.95v and idles at 38C, system at 20C and GPU at 30C, not too shabby.

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 22 Sep 2006, 11:38

Just on Raynes train of thought how would it be possible to get the temp down without having to go to the lengths of getting a new cooler for it. My case temp is about 28 degrees. I am using a thermally advantaged case as recommended by intel I have 1 exhaust fan at the back of my case and its sitting just next to the cpu drawing hot air out and away. There is a grill directly above the CPU fan for drawing in cool air. And directly above the GPU there is a large grill where I can feel a substantial amount of air being drawn in.

Anyone have any ideas or methods they used?

SLIP · Post by **SLIP** » 22 Sep 2006, 11:47

Im running at 60 degrees max on full load....

with my 6600 3D1

deadpixel · Post by **deadpixel** » 27 Sep 2006, 14:38

My Asus 7900gt top runs idle at about 43-48 degrees and 50 - 60 on load.
I'm also in the process of buying a zalman vf900-cu vga cooler. Apparently there is a 10+ degree temp drop. Cant wait to install it.

I also installed a vantec twin fan card a while ago which sits beneath the gfx card and blows more air over the card. It only shows a 2-3 degree temp drop on idle but not very much on load.

Bobendren · Post by **Bobendren** » 27 Sep 2006, 15:01

The problem with the grill opening by the graphics card is that a large portion of the air being sucked in movs directly out of the case bypassing the gfx card. You can try opeing up the pci slot covers at the back of the case (the ones underneath the gfx card). Air coming in here would be forced to move over the gfx card. Sealing up the gfx side opening would result in the air moving more quickly at the pci openings as well - which may or may not have an affect.

You could also try removing the heatsink, lapping it, then reseating it with some AS5.

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 27 Sep 2006, 15:19

My GPU (Radeon X1900GT) idles at 65, the fan only steps up it revs at 95 wich rarely happens. I'm thinking about taking my heatdsink off and lapping it. I have read somewhere that lapping a X1900XT's hsf reduced idle temps to 45 wich is a huge difference from it's standard temp (can't remember what that was)

Post by **KillerByte** » 27 Sep 2006, 15:27

my 7900gt idles at 38 and loads at 50 max

abs · Post by **abs** » 27 Sep 2006, 15:44

My 6600gt idles around 46 & 92 @ max load, but that's only when im running luna.exe (nvidia graphics test). When running normal games its about 70-75 max. Stock settings & stock cooling. (mem 1138 - clock 564)

link to download luna.exe (Warning!!! 135mb file)
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_luna_home.html

Minimum System Requirements: GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP, ForceWare Drivers 77.50 or higher, 512MB system memory, 256MB video memory

Download @ own risk!!!!

Madnax · Post by **Madnax** » 27 Sep 2006, 22:54

Please help me my 7600gt sli runs at 40 idle 56 load.
But the moment I install any other driver than the original I get green pixel spots when play games or bench marking ? the last one I tried was v91.47

Any ideas what the problem can be ???

QQQ · Post by **QQQ** » 28 Sep 2006, 01:22

73 highest is fine. My 7800GT in Feb is 54 full load used VF700cu.My friend's XFX 7600GT running at 560/1600 with stock fan can get 80 then, but also work good.

Bloodmonk · Post by **Bloodmonk** » 05 Oct 2006, 19:46

Hi I saw this thread and I want to know is 61 idle and 85 full load bad or good... its a Winfast 6800GT

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 05 Oct 2006, 19:56

ryanrich wrote:My X800XT PE is around 38 degrees C at full load as far as I remember... That's on water cooling.

38? Wow, that's odd... because my X800XT PE idles at about 40 degrees on the stock cooler. Under load it jumps to about 72-73 degrees. It actually gets pretty unstable sometimes and even crashes on me once in a while. But not very often.

Bloodmonk, those temps are fine, the 6800GT was a very warm card...

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 05 Oct 2006, 19:57

Yeah but his is watercooled Ettienne

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 05 Oct 2006, 19:58

-=WiK1d=- wrote:Yeah but his is watercooled Ettienne

Yes Bertus, but his idle temp is 38, watercooled, mine is 40, not watercooled. That's why i asked

EDIT!! My bad!! That's full load!

Wow, that Exos is a pretty sick watercooling kit then huh?! Holy moley, i am impressed!

minerva10210 · Post by **minerva10210** » 01 Nov 2006, 09:11

Hi all

I am waiting for my water system to arrive, hopefully I'll have it by Friday, cant wait!
got a vantec stingray, cpu,gpu,nb&sb blocks... Video card is running way too hot, idle is fine at about 35-40* and load anything between 60-80* and when it gets to 75* it starts making artifacts...

anyone here seen/used/have a stingray? just wanna make sure I didn't waste my money

Post by **ryanrich** » 01 Nov 2006, 09:17

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:38? Wow, that's odd... because my X800XT PE idles at about 40 degrees on the stock cooler. Under load it jumps to about 72-73 degrees. It actually gets pretty unstable sometimes and even crashes on me once in a while. But not very often.

With this damn heat lately mine is idling around 42C and gets up to around 48C on load...

I also overclocked my CPU even more, and the vCore is at 1.95v, so that doesn't help matters, hehe. All in all still pretty decent temps, and it was originally an X800XT that I flashed to a PE, so it's actually overclocked as well.