Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
what to do now?
first thing i did when i got this card was fire up a game!
then i used rivatuner to do the rest. thing oc's like a beast with stock cooling. i ran 690 perfectly stable for the first week i got the card. and i play many hours a week.
i lowered it cause it was around the max stable oc i got and i didnt feel like pushin my stuff to the limits.
fyi sustained 76c under load is not too high.
A spinning cube for 2 minutes is not going to be peak temps...
can you quote me where i said that i use ati tray tools to get my temps? or that i consider a sustained load to be 2 minutes with tray tools?
you said 'sustained load at 73 is very very high'
that is quite simply very very wrong.
i consider sustained load as an hour+ of gameplay. i play a game, and i have riva tuner log my temps and i can check them afterwards during hours of gameplay. even comes in a nice graph form.
ive had 6 hour 2142 sessions on weekends. my temps are in the mid to upper mid 70's. again, nothing to be concerned about with these cards.
and again, 76 under sustained load (which i am considering a solid period of gaming), is nothing to be concerned about.
at all.
what u said was wrong to be concerned about those temps.