What's your 8800GTX Idle Temp?

[Woofmeister]

I've started running NVIDIA Monitor in the background all the time and I've been really surprised at how hot my 8800GTX runs. I'm averaging 80 C at Idle and the thing gets up to 91 C during gaming with the case fans blowing at max.

Now, here's the thing. The automatic fan on my 8800GTX doesn't even start to spin up at 90 C and if I use Riva Tuner to force the fan to spin at 100%, I can drop my GPU temp to 69 C at Idle with all my case fans running at full.

Still, these seem like really hot temps to me and might explain why I've been having some performance issues of late. No artifacting or crashes mind you, it just seems like my frame rates are kind of low, like maybe my GPU is throttling back.

Am I just a nervous nellie?

 

[Atty]

My GTS (yes, I know you asked for GTX, but this might be of some help) runs at 55c idle and 68c during gaming. I've got my case fans on max and 100% fan.

What's your ambient temp?

 

[Woofmeister]

37.1 C is the temp in my case according to the temperature probe closest to my GFX card. NVIDIA monitor is showing my system temp at 46 C but I've got no idea where that measurement is coming from.

New experiment--I've been running game benchmarks with the fan speed forced to 100% and the temps are staying in the low 70s. What's more, I just pushed my card up to 651/2006 and it's running without a hiccup. I've never been able to do that without a BSOD

Maybe the latest driver software (158.19) is too conservative to start up the fan if it's left on the auto setting?

 

[MooMooCow]

Mine is running at 71C using the nVidia Monitor software. That's idle of course.

 

[chrismr]

Mine idles at around 55, with the fan set to 85%. Load gets into mid 70's. That is only running it at 600/1800 as there just isn't any point in really oc'ing this card much more yet.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I also run my fan at 85% with Riva and get 52 idle 72 or so under load at stock settings.

 

[Woofmeister]

Are all of you with idles in the 50s manually running your fans with Riva?

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Still, these seem like really hot temps to me and might explain why I've been having some performance issues of late. No artifacting or crashes mind you, it just seems like my frame rates are kind of low, like maybe my GPU is throttling back.

I think this is a common and weird issue. If I leave my PC open for a relatively big amount of time and try to run a benchmark, then for a weird reason performance is lower. It's just like something is hogging resources or just throttles for a weird reason..Then I just restart my PC and performance comes back to normal..

 

[Aikouka]

I believe mine runs around 60, but these are just off-the-top-of-my-head numbers. I don't tinker with the fan settings, but my case (Lian Li PC V1100B+) is pretty good with cooling. It has a nice 120mm fan with good flow positioned right over where the video card is which helps a bit and also helps siphon out CPU heat before it can rise (the case is inverted).

 

[nZone]

Get yourself a PCI Slot blower underneath the GTX (skip one slot is best when installing the blower).
I used Antec Super Cyclone (occupies 2-pci slots).

idle on automatic fan: 65-66C; load 75-76C
idle on 99% fan: 59-60C; load 69C.

 

[5150Joker]

I had two somewhat defective eVGA 8800 GTX cards prior to the one I have now (see thread: Text) and they both idled around 74-78C depending on the time of the day with load temps reaching 85C. This third eVGA 8800 GTX I received from Newegg yesterday has been idling at 67-68C and load hasn't gone above 75C. My guess would be that HSF contact with the GPU and memory modules is key to achieving good temps with this card and it seems to vary based on how lucky you are.

 

[chizow]

What kind of case do you have? Good case cooling has a big impact on 8800 temps. I had similar temps in my Lian-Li PC-65 Plus, 80C idle, didn't get much hotter under load. Was still 100% stable despite the high temps. Moved to an Antec Nine Hundred (120mm fan right over the GPU) and it dropped my GPU and other temps dramatically. @50C idle, 65C or so under moderate load, 70-75C under heavy load with stock fan speeds.

I run the fan at 75% now since its a little bit warmer here and 75% doesn't change noise levels much. I wouldn't trust the fan throttling controls btw, I never once heard my fan spin up when I had it running in my Lian-Li even with temps in the 80C range.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: chizow
What kind of case do you have? Good case cooling has a big impact on 8800 temps. I had similar temps in my Lian-Li PC-65 Plus, 80C idle, didn't get much hotter under load. Was still 100% stable despite the high temps. Moved to an Antec Nine Hundred (120mm fan right over the GPU) and it dropped my GPU and other temps dramatically. @50C idle, 65C or so under moderate load, 70-75C under heavy load with stock fan speeds.

I run the fan at 75% now since its a little bit warmer here and 75% doesn't change noise levels much. I wouldn't trust the fan throttling controls btw, I never once heard my fan spin up when I had it running in my Lian-Li even with temps in the 80C range.

I have a Lian Li PC-7 Plus (not Plus II) with a custom blowhole in the top. Add in the fan on my Scythe Ninja and I've got 4 120 mm fans blowing/exhausting air in my case. They're Thermaltake Thunderblades too so they move a lot of air when I crank them up with my fan controller.

What I'm beginning to see here is that my problem is not with the graphics cards or my case airflow, it's with the fact that the NVIDIA driver doesn't ever want to auto start the fan.

It's funny because I had a second 8800GTX in my case for SLI and I pulled it out because my GPU temps went well above 95 C. Now I'm thinking I should reinstall my second 8800GTX and use Riva Tuner to force the GPU fans up to 85%-100% to cool those cards.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: nZone
Get yourself a PCI Slot blower underneath the GTX (skip one slot is best when installing the blower).
I used Antec Super Cyclone (occupies 2-pci slots).

idle on automatic fan: 65-66C; load 75-76C
idle on 99% fan: 59-60C; load 69C.

It doesn't make much sense that a blower fan would help as much on an 8800GT(S/X) than on other cards. Mainly because the 8800 has a blower fan system already on it. All it'd be doing is pulling a little extra air over the 8800 almost acting as another cooling system rather than pushing out the warm air that's blown off the card like most other standard HSF cooling systems do.

EDIT:

Just to clarify, I don't mean that you're lying, I just don't think a blower to help a video card with a blower will be as effective as a video card with a standard HSF.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: nZone
Get yourself a PCI Slot blower underneath the GTX (skip one slot is best when installing the blower).
I used Antec Super Cyclone (occupies 2-pci slots).

idle on automatic fan: 65-66C; load 75-76C
idle on 99% fan: 59-60C; load 69C.

Wow, so like five PCI slots taken just to run one 8800GTX? I admire your dedication to low GFX temps.

 

[Captante]

When I had it installed in a mid-tower case with poor airflow my EVGA GTX idled around 75c & topped out as high as 90c in games even with the GPU fan locked at 100%.

Now that I've transferred to to a Coolermaster full tower it idles at approx 62c & never tops 75c under load with the GPU fan on auto.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister

Originally posted by: nZone
Get yourself a PCI Slot blower underneath the GTX (skip one slot is best when installing the blower).
I used Antec Super Cyclone (occupies 2-pci slots).

idle on automatic fan: 65-66C; load 75-76C
idle on 99% fan: 59-60C; load 69C.

Wow, so like five PCI slots taken just to run one 8800GTX? I admire your dedication to low GFX temps.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/swtethan/IMG_0984.JPG


thats mine, what now????

50c idle 69 load (oced)

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: Woofmeister

Originally posted by: nZone
Get yourself a PCI Slot blower underneath the GTX (skip one slot is best when installing the blower).
I used Antec Super Cyclone (occupies 2-pci slots).

idle on automatic fan: 65-66C; load 75-76C
idle on 99% fan: 59-60C; load 69C.

Wow, so like five PCI slots taken just to run one 8800GTX? I admire your dedication to low GFX temps.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/swtethan/IMG_0984.JPG


thats mine, what now????

50c idle 69 load (oced)

Caution! Extreme 8800GTX cooling ahead!

I sort of enjoy my sound card a little too much to make that kind of sacrifice.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: Woofmeister

Originally posted by: nZone
Get yourself a PCI Slot blower underneath the GTX (skip one slot is best when installing the blower).
I used Antec Super Cyclone (occupies 2-pci slots).

idle on automatic fan: 65-66C; load 75-76C
idle on 99% fan: 59-60C; load 69C.

Wow, so like five PCI slots taken just to run one 8800GTX? I admire your dedication to low GFX temps.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/swtethan/IMG_0984.JPG


thats mine, what now????

50c idle 69 load (oced)

Caution! Extreme 8800GTX cooling ahead!

I sort of enjoy my sound card a little too much to make that kind of sacrifice.

yeah my P5B deluxe wifi has some of the best onboard sound out there so I dont mind until I can buy a x-fi (then i will buy a slot blower (two slots)

 

[allies]

72 Degrees per nTune.... what's the best OCing/Fan speed/Monitoring tool for Vista Ultimate X64?

 

[almach1]

52-55 idle

 

[Dainas]

My 8800GTX Idles at 60c and maxes out at 78c gaming if I force the fan to spin 100% under riva tuner, otherwise its perfectly happy cooking at +70c with the fans doing just about nothing when idle. I have a very well ventilated case and I just cleaned out my 8800GTX last week with no effect to its temps, my 7800GTX SLI setup idled(without touching the fan setting) at 46c in virtually the same surroundings.

 

[MADMAX23]

The latest system I've built 2 days ago for a wealthy client, had a Lian Li V1100B Plus and an ASUS 8800GTX among other components.

OS: VISTA ULTIMATE 32 BIT

Nvidia drivers: 158.18 Vista 32 bit (Clean install, no previous Nvidia drivers installed before)

Core Idle temp: 56ºc
Core Load Temp: 78ºc (the highest I've monitored with that system)

8800GTX FAN rpm controlled by nvidia driver. (Note that 158.18 and above drivers for XP and VISTA don't respond to your manual fan speed adjustments, you have to use Rivatuner in XP, in VISTA there's no solution to this yet)

IDLE: 1500 rpm
LOAD: 2000 rpm (max)

Use Everest Ultimate Ed to monitor temps and fan speeds in rpm.

The fan speed does vary depending on temps.

 

[Woofmeister]

I"m looking back over this thread and it seems that at least two of you with low 8800 GTX idle temps are running in an Antec Nine Hundred Enclosure.

The Antec Nine Hundred has a 120mm fan running over the GFX cards. Hmmmm.

Perhaps that makes a larger difference than I thought. I just cleaned out my fans and am running 42C system, 42C CPU and 42C MB (see a pattern here?) according to both NVIDIA Monitor and ASUS Probe II. My 8800GTX Fan is now set to 85% which makes it inaudible, but I'm consistently hitting 65 C at idle with an overclock of 651/2006 MHz.

65 C at idle is a lot better than my previous temps and I'm barely cracking the 80s during gaming, but I still see many people here getting lower temps. I'm wondering if those people all have fans over their GFX cards.

Lets hear from everybody with low temps on the aircooled 8800GTXs--what kind of case do you have and does it have a fan over the GFX system?

 

[MADMAX23]

In my case, I used a Lian Li v1100 Plus, which has a 120mm fan (located over the cards) sucking air (exhaust fan, not pushing air to the cards) out of the case.

That fan takes all the heat out of the case, specially the heat generated by the cards.