How hot is your graphics card?
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Volkier
Sergeant Knight
I've seen mine max up at about 80Degrees Celcius, averaging at high 70's when it's running high-graphics apps. Mind, for me that is extremely hot as my Desktop computer's core temperatures on GPUs / CPUs / North bridge etc. never got over 50 - and even then if I saw it anywhere in the high 40's, I would flip out and try to figure out ways of improving the cooling.
Incidentally, my current card (which gets to over 80) is a 7600 too - except it's the 'go' version for laptops - which is probably the reason why it get's so hot. Makes me feel kind of uncomfortable even now, but I did open up my laptop at one point of time, and it actually has a semi-decent cooling system on it - unlike most of the laptops I've seen.. (Apparently Alienware actually uses some form of common sense and logic instead of trying to make everything as pointlessly thin as possible for their laptops) I would imagine the same card installed in a different laptop with compromised cooling would get significantly hotter ::\
EDIT: Just looked a little closer at all the replies - yes Nair, exactly the same readings - except my core slowdown is set to 100Deg by default. I did manage to drop the temperature down by about 2 or 3 degrees initially by taking out the battery from my laptop, but it still goes up to low/mid 80's during gaming. It does feel uncomfortable, but my options are pretty limited - with the card being in a laptop and all ::*(
EDIT2: Might pay to check the temperature right after I nuked something in C&C3 - Tiberium Wars. Even though everything runs very impressively smoothly on near-max settings, the nuke drops my fps to under 1 (no kidding) for about 5 or 6 frames.... speaking of a big boom....
EDIT3: Just did a successful test with the nuke in C&C3, temperature stayed at about 77-79 degrees, went up to 85 during the actual nuke drop (fps went down to 1-2 for a about 10 seconds) then it went back down to 77-79 pretty quickly. Runs at about 70 flat in low graphics intensive apps (such as the desktop / wordpad / firefox etc. etc.) So it does appear that this is the working temperature of the card - as uncomfortably hot as it may be. If you find a way to lower it down to human standards through some form of drivers updates or whatnot - please let me know :
Incidentally, my current card (which gets to over 80) is a 7600 too - except it's the 'go' version for laptops - which is probably the reason why it get's so hot. Makes me feel kind of uncomfortable even now, but I did open up my laptop at one point of time, and it actually has a semi-decent cooling system on it - unlike most of the laptops I've seen.. (Apparently Alienware actually uses some form of common sense and logic instead of trying to make everything as pointlessly thin as possible for their laptops) I would imagine the same card installed in a different laptop with compromised cooling would get significantly hotter ::\
EDIT: Just looked a little closer at all the replies - yes Nair, exactly the same readings - except my core slowdown is set to 100Deg by default. I did manage to drop the temperature down by about 2 or 3 degrees initially by taking out the battery from my laptop, but it still goes up to low/mid 80's during gaming. It does feel uncomfortable, but my options are pretty limited - with the card being in a laptop and all ::*(
EDIT2: Might pay to check the temperature right after I nuked something in C&C3 - Tiberium Wars. Even though everything runs very impressively smoothly on near-max settings, the nuke drops my fps to under 1 (no kidding) for about 5 or 6 frames.... speaking of a big boom....
EDIT3: Just did a successful test with the nuke in C&C3, temperature stayed at about 77-79 degrees, went up to 85 during the actual nuke drop (fps went down to 1-2 for a about 10 seconds) then it went back down to 77-79 pretty quickly. Runs at about 70 flat in low graphics intensive apps (such as the desktop / wordpad / firefox etc. etc.) So it does appear that this is the working temperature of the card - as uncomfortably hot as it may be. If you find a way to lower it down to human standards through some form of drivers updates or whatnot - please let me know :
Thingy Master
Squire
I'm curious, My sister has a monster of a fan on her computer, so much so when she plays anything graphically intensive it sounds like a jet trying to take off.
I'm wondering how cost effective liquid or gel cooling systems are.
I'm wondering how cost effective liquid or gel cooling systems are.
The problem with liquid is possible leakage or corrosion. The thing I linked to above is passive, no fans, no water. Should be pretty quiet. Reviews I've read make me think it'll work decently. Cheap too (about $20). Of course, I've never used a liquid cooled system, so I can't really say.
Not too likely, although you may be able to find a utility to lower the voltage or clock speed... reverse overclocking if you will. Drivers will have little or no effect on the parts heat output.
Not too likely, although you may be able to find a utility to lower the voltage or clock speed... reverse overclocking if you will. Drivers will have little or no effect on the parts heat output.
Nightblade+--
Knight at Arms
Got oodles of money don't...Nairagorn 说:
Nairagorn 说:
Only $20 USD!? Man! Here I'd pay close to R850 (Rand) for that! That's $112 USD!
Yeah, I kinda thought something like this would be a bit pricier, but I guess the technology really isn't that cutting-edge... it's a pretty simple part really. Just a giant heat sink.
What kind and how much was it? I'm curious about the whole liquid cooling thing. Seems like it would be bulky and expensive, but I haven't looked into it at all really.
What kind and how much was it? I'm curious about the whole liquid cooling thing. Seems like it would be bulky and expensive, but I haven't looked into it at all really.
Nightblade+--
Knight at Arms
Still, it looks like a good buy Nairagorn. I hope you read a few reviews before buying it though.
Noise would never be an issue for me - because I only ever use headphones.
Noise would never be an issue for me - because I only ever use headphones.
Nah, last time I bought a cooler it cost me five quid for a premium solution. Unless you're going for liquid or the like, heatsinks and fans tend to be dirt cheap. Get yourself some decent thermal paste too, it can have a fairly dramatic effect on temperature.Nairagorn 说:
Also, unless I'm very much mistaken you can get an add-on fan for that heatsink if you need it.
The 600's always are. Nvidia's numbering scheme has always been high (X800/X900) for the premium, gaming cards, Mid (X600/X700) for the entry level stuff and anything in between (or lower) for budget. It's more reliable than the code letter scheme these days too, since they've started fannying on with GTS / GTX etc.
Trooper5445
Master Knight
9800 GTX!
I don't know what I'm doing wrong with mine. I have 3 chassis fans (2 intake, one out) and an arctic cooling thermal paste and fan for the CPU.
THE CPU still runs at like like 40-50 degrees when playing C varying on the temperature of the day (today it's freezing so with nothing but browsing it's running at 20degrees.)
On the reviews of the fan though most of them were saying it was giving them around 20-30 on full
Oh well, no overclocking for me.
THE CPU still runs at like like 40-50 degrees when playing C varying on the temperature of the day (today it's freezing so with nothing but browsing it's running at 20degrees.)
On the reviews of the fan though most of them were saying it was giving them around 20-30 on full
Oh well, no overclocking for me.
