Is my video card too hot?

[Nitemare]

I have an MSI 6800 Ultra PCI-E x16, and when running BF2, in my display options > nvidia options > gpu temperature it reads around 73° Celcius. Whenever I go on Everest and look at GPU temp, it says 10° C lower. Is 73° too hot?

[alkajazz]

Re: Is my video card too hot?

i would say that is good.

[DeathGiver]

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Id purchase an after market cooler. My 7800 goes to 53 and never higher. On idle its at 40 C. I say that because i fried video cards for o/c em and they got to hot.

[mccann]

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Im having similar probs mate, my 9800 pro is running at 63 celcius now which i think is high too, but im not sure.

[DeathGiver]

Re: Is my video card too hot?

I had a 9800 pro sometime ago and it tends to get hot even at idle speeds. The cooling on the 9800 wasnt all that great. So i bought an cooler for the card and it stayed pretty cool till i fried it from o/c. It didnt have big fans like the 6600, 6800 and the 7800 series of video cards. Not to mention the X800 series has good fans as well. I havent seen an nvidia program out there where you can set your fan speed at 100% while idle and ingame much like ati has ATI tray tools.

[mccann]

Re: Is my video card too hot?

I had a 9800 pro sometime ago and it tends to get hot even at idle speeds. The cooling on the 9800 wasnt all that great. So i bought an cooler for the card and it stayed pretty cool till i fried it from o/c. It didnt have big fans like the 6600, 6800 and the 7800 series of video cards. Not to mention the X800 series has good fans as well. I havent seen an nvidia program out there where you can set your fan speed at 100% while idle and ingame much like ati has ATI tray tools.

so do you think that temp (62 cel) is ok to be playing at until i get a cooler and sink for it?

[chaos555]

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how do i find out how my Fx5500 temp is while playin

[mccann]

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how do i find out how my Fx5500 temp is while playin

not sure, but ive a temp sensor on mine linked to a fan controller, i think there is software out there to check it thou.

[N2K]

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my 5500 sometimes gets to 100degrees, is that bad? i have the sonsor right in the heatsink, and i have my 120mm fan blowing right at it, and the little spider on the fron of the case, turns red, that happends when it gets to 100degrees

[mccann]

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100 degree thats boiling point thats got to be bad. :s

[N2K]

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when it gets very intense in the game it gets like that, when i wasn in op clean sweap, even with all that water and stuff, it didnt get heated, but i turned on the ac, and it helped it cool down, cuz my toes are frozen, lol, some how the air flows good under my desk

[Nitemare]

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100 degrees C or F? If C then you have some serious problems...if F its up because my 63 C runs at 142 F.

Anyways, can somebody that actually has an answer for me post. And if I need better cooling, can somebody give me a good cooling product. Below 100 dollars would be nice.

[mccann]

Re: Is my video card too hot?

100 degrees C or F? If C then you have some serious problems...if F its up because my 63 C runs at 142 F.

Anyways, can somebody that actually has an answer for me post. And if I need better cooling, can somebody give me a good cooling product. Below 100 dollars would be nice.

arctic cooling do a lot of coolers for graphix cards, that what ill be getting.

[NoSoup4You]

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My X850XT PE is running really hot with ATI Silencer 5 on it. 55*C. Ambient Temperature in my case is 28*C.

[BryanG]

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My x850 xt pe maxes out around 45 celsius. I thought it might be a little hot but after hearing these other temps. I guess I'm ok.