8800 GT runs HOT

[walk2k]

EVGA 8800GT SC (650mhz)

stock fan speed (29%) = 57-60c idle, 78-81c load

41% fan speed (RivaTuner) = 52-53c idle, 72-73c load

 

[thejez]

first of all.. the card is designed to run over 100C... however I dont think i'd feel to great about doing that...most ppl with the stock cooler run about 85C @ load...

yes you could spend another $40 to buy and after market HSF but WTF you may as well buy the new GTS for that price... I don think you should have to buy any aftermarket cooler to run the card out of the box.... i'd call tech support and see what they reccomend about sending it back.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: ronnn
This is why I always (so far) have gotten an aftermarket cooler. Lower temps and quieter. In my mind, I add the price of decent cooling before I buy. :beer:

I figure the video card may survive the temps, but not so sure of other hardware in that hot box.

better transfer of temperature from GPU core to the air does not make for a cooler box.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: John
OK, it's roughly 24C in my room right now. I have a P182 with the 3 included 120mm tricools on low, an Arctic Cooling AF12025 120mm fan in the top front cage, and my X2 3800+ @ 2.7 has an XP-90 w/ Arctic Cooling 92mm fan on it. With the RivaTuner fan control @ 40% my BFG 8800GTOC is idling at 61C and load during the ATITool artifact test reaches 108C after 15 min. I removed the factory thermal compound on the core, applied Ceramique, and it didn't seem to make a difference. Did I get a dud?

dud. I've been reading everything I can find for months on 3870 and 8800gt and that's the highest load temp I've seen, especially with the fan set at 40%.

 

[Zulu342]

I am having some trouble getting my fan to speed up. I read that guru3d article mentioned above and I've enabled "Low level fan control" and set it to 80% in Riva Tuner 2.06 but it doesn't seem to do anything. I'm still idling at 78 C on a BFG 8800GT OC. Using Nvidia Monitor, it doesn't show my fan speeding up either (shows system fan: 31889, nForce: 675, Aux2: 18).

Am I missing a step?

Thanks!

 

[blank98]

I hit 87C while playing the Crysis Demo on highest settings.

I have eVGA 8800GT 512

 

[ronnn]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: ronnn
This is why I always (so far) have gotten an aftermarket cooler. Lower temps and quieter. In my mind, I add the price of decent cooling before I buy. :beer:

I figure the video card may survive the temps, but not so sure of other hardware in that hot box.

better transfer of temperature from GPU core to the air does not make for a cooler box.

Always does with mine. Both chipset and hard drive temps go down.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: blank98
I hit 87C while playing the Crysis Demo on highest settings.

I have eVGA 8800GT 512

54c here, but of course.... my cooler is monster

 

[Zulu342]

Originally posted by: John
OK, it's roughly 24C in my room right now. I have a P182 with the 3 included 120mm tricools on low, an Arctic Cooling AF12025 120mm fan in the top front cage, and my X2 3800+ @ 2.7 has an XP-90 w/ Arctic Cooling 92mm fan on it. With the RivaTuner fan control @ 40% my BFG 8800GTOC is idling at 61C and load during the ATITool artifact test reaches 108C after 15 min. I removed the factory thermal compound on the core, applied Ceramique, and it didn't seem to make a difference. Did I get a dud?

My BFG 8800GT OC is idling at 78 C and hits 116 C after a few minutes in Crysis. The fan is spinning but it doesn't seem like RivaTuner has any affect on it.

This is a bad card?

 

[Syntax Error]

Turn up that fan, your 8800GT fan's probably set on Auto (29%), driver or BIOS but prevents the fan from spinning any faster than that on Auto setting.


On a side note, on Crysis, I loaded at around 85C at 725 core/1000 RAM and my system would lock up. However, downclocking it to 700/975 it'd be relatively stable and it loads around 82C. Is this the straw that broke the camel's back? I see others being relatively stable on Crysis at temps of 88-90.

 

[Nathelion]

My 6800GT used to run at 120 C on a regular basis without any protests... the default warning temperature was at like 135 C. I didn't like it one bit, but apparently nvidia disagreed....

 

[envaloop]

I have 8800 GT?s in SLI and the first thing that bugged me was that one card always ran hotter than the other. Next issue was reading that some folks had much lower average temps at under idle and full load. Anyway, I removed the covers, cleaned off the stock thermal paste and replaced it with OCZ Freeze, a high end paste. Wow, it really made a big difference. Now both cards run at the same exact temp and ?hot? card now runs about 10 degrees cooler under load. The problem seems to be the amount of paste that was applied at the factory ? way too much. The cooler of my two cards had much less stock paste. I applied just enough to create a thin layer over the GPU using a plastic playing card.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

81C is NOT HOT NOT HOT NOT HOT NOT HOT.

who told you 81C is hot for an 8800gt? they're a moron.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

yea, its a shame that the nvidia drivers STILL DON'T RAMP UP THE FAN SPEED of the 8800GT. can't believe us consumers need to use 3rd party software to prevent our 8800gt's from overheating

 

[yh125d]

The new drivers still haven't fixed that? Shit, I gotta adjust the rivatuner settings on my bro's PC...

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: yh125d
The new drivers still haven't fixed that? Shit, I gotta adjust the rivatuner settings on my bro's PC...

lol yea, i have the latest official drivers from nvidia and without adjusting rivatuner, my 8800gt will ramp up to 100c (+) depending on my case fan rpm (controlled manually) or room temp