Is my 6800 GT too hot?

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Okay, so I just bought a PNY 6800 GT. I'm not overclocking it and am using the stock cooling that came on the card. Yet, I'm idling at like 72C and when gaming it can even go above 90C! I don't understand why it's getting so hot. There are 4 other fans in my rig, 2 on the powersupply, 1 on the CPU and an exhaust fan at the back.

Should I replace the stock cooling with something different? What would you guys reccommend?
 
The 6800 series of cards get mighty hot. I don't think you can do much about it aside from considering a PCI slot fan card type thing, as I don't think the 3rd party coolers would do a better job.

That said, I don't think it's running too too hot. Have you noticed your games slowing down at all when the cards running hot? The 6800 series have a feature in them called Thermal throttling, meaning it'll slow the card down when it gets to a certain point. If you're not reaching this point, I'd try not to worry about it.
 
That is rediculously hot even for a video card. My old 9800 pro ran at 72c when gaming, not idling. And my x800xt runs games @ 68c. But thats what you get for SM3.0 i presume :p
 
oD1Nz said:
The 6800 series of cards get mighty hot. I don't think you can do much about it aside from considering a PCI slot fan card type thing, as I don't think the 3rd party coolers would do a better job.

That said, I don't think it's running too too hot. Have you noticed your games slowing down at all when the cards running hot? The 6800 series have a feature in them called Thermal throttling, meaning it'll slow the card down when it gets to a certain point. If you're not reaching this point, I'd try not to worry about it.

No, nothing seems to be slowing down...

I guess I'll try a PCI slot fan.
 
Mine is at 60C when idle and mostly 85C on load.
guinny said:
But thats what you get for SM3.0 i presume :p
Yep! Good think I'm not trying to OC.
 
Buy another case fan. If you feel like voiding your warranty, Artic Cooling is coming out with their new revision of the VGA silencer that supports the 6800 series. They provide excellent cooling without making much noise.

As for video card temps, they can withstand much higher temps than CPU's. I would be worried about your video card if it ever cracked a 100 C.

PCI Slot fans are gimmicks. They provide lots of noise and sub-par cooling. If you place the PCI slot fan under your video card fan, it actually affects the life of the fan on your video card (because the video card fan has more resistance when moving the air around).
 
DarkStar said:
Well what would you suggest I do all-powerful guinny?

Shoulda went ati :p

no but seriously, not much u can do, but a pci slot fan will just blow more hot air on it, its a waste.
 
blahblahblah said:
If you feel like voiding your warranty, Artic Cooling is coming out with their new revision of the VGA silencer that supports the 6800 series. They provide excellent cooling without making much noise.

So you're saying this wouldn't be compatible with my 6800?
 
It may work but I know they are coming out with a version (version 5 IIRC) that is designed for the 6800 GT.
 
I went to COMPUSA today and bought a new case fan and a expansion slot fan. Now I'm idling at like 55C and it barely goes above 80C when gaming. I guess my old case fan was just wearing out and creating an air cirulation problem. Thanks for the help guys.
 
I cut one 80 mm hole in the side of my case and placed two fans with air filters their. It keeps the gpu and cpu very cool. I got 3 fans bringing air in and 3 bringing it out. Not as noisy as one would expect and provides very good cooling. Great for overclocking.
I could probably get more airflow going if I took of the fans filters but I am worried about getting dust in the videocard heatsink.
 
DarkStar said:
Okay, so I just bought a PNY 6800 GT. I'm not overclocking it and am using the stock cooling that came on the card. Yet, I'm idling at like 72C and when gaming it can even go above 90C! I don't understand why it's getting so hot. There are 4 other fans in my rig, 2 on the powersupply, 1 on the CPU and an exhaust fan at the back.

Should I replace the stock cooling with something different? What would you guys reccommend?

That is a bit toasty, on averge with stock cooling 6800GT cards idle 55-60 degrees and load at 80-85 degrees. Glad to see you fixed the problem.
 
do you guys know how to change the display on a thermal display? Mine reads in Fahrenheit and I'd like it to be celsius b/c that's what everyone else seems to use..
 
blackeye said:
I cut one 80 mm hole in the side of my case and placed two fans with air filters their. It keeps the gpu and cpu very cool. I got 3 fans bringing air in and 3 bringing it out. Not as noisy as one would expect and provides very good cooling. Great for overclocking.
I could probably get more airflow going if I took of the fans filters but I am worried about getting dust in the videocard heatsink.

How'd you cut the hole in the side of the case? I'd like to do something similar...
 
43C idle for me 53-55C underload, still wondering, how you guys produce so much heat :x
 
Ya a dremel is good and then you just sand the edges so they are smooth.
 
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