Danger Manger
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Jan 29, 2002
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I noticed that my GPU temperature reaches 84*C at load. Is this too high? I don't see any ill effects though.
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pxc said:What is your ambient case temperature? And are you overclocking your 7800GT?
Those 2 things are important in determining if 84C if hot or not.
Danger Manger said:My case has only one 120mm fan in the front of the case, and it's used to cool the giant cpu heatsink. Everything is at stock speeds. It idles around 60*C.
Since the card gets air from inside the case, you can't disregard case temperature.nobody_here said:case temp regardless
roaf85 said:I hate to tell you guys this, but 84 C is not bad at all. The 7800s in laptops run at around 90 C. Do you have the EVGA card? Some of the EVGA cards can reach 80-90C on full load because of the overclocks.
The question you have to ask is:
1. Do you get artifacts looping 3dmark06? If no then I would not worry.
Besides the max operating temp of the 7800 series is 115C. You are far from that. If it is stable then you really have nothing to worry about. It is funny how people say it is too hot, but then they can not show you any hard evidence where there has been a death from a video card running stable inside the operating limit.
sculelos said:Well it doesn't matter much but the card might only last a couple years at that temp, but not a major problem if he's not planing to keep it much longer (then a couple years).
Edit: OH I forgot, unless he does a ton of gaming and it idles around 60C his card will be fine, no card is at load 100% all the time unless it's used by more then 1 person.
Danger Manger said:My case has only one 120mm fan in the front of the case, and it's used to cool the giant cpu heatsink. Everything is at stock speeds. It idles around 60*C.
wahoyaho said:Mine used to run at low 70s at full load, but lately it's been going on to high 80s..and then the artifacts and lockups come :/ I have no clue what happened, I haven't touched anything in the case since I put it together for the first time.