Operating Temperature For 8800GS

[No Limit]

I installed a new 880GS yesterday because my ati 1650XT was overheating on me playing even the simplest games such as counter strike. So far this card works awesome but I am a little worried about its temperature and since I had overheating issues before I want to make sure I am not having the same issue here.

When idle this card runs at around 55-60C, when I play graphic intensive games such as insurgency the card maxed out at 71C after an hour or so.

Is this normal? 60C idle seems a little hot to me.

If I was to overclock this card what temperature would I not want to exceed?

 

[[Matt]]

That temp seems fine to me although a few degrees too high under load so you might want to check your case is properly ventilated. Modern GPU's at stock speeds will shutdown and soft reboot the system long before they get too hot.

 

[Asus]

Should be OK. That would be too high if you were talking about your CPU. But GPUs run hotter normally. 80C is not a problem.

 

[No Limit]

Do you have a quality case fan and good airflow?

Yeah, thats the thing. The case isn't all that great but it is a large case, full atx. I have 2 standard fans in there. An additional fan on the power supply and a blower type fan that exhausts hot air out the back through one of the pci slots located a couple inches under the video card fan. So I don't understand why it is running at 60C idle while you say you can run your 8800GTS at 48-50C.

But it hasn't been flaky or anything so maybe I'm just paranoid. Plus this will give me an excuse to play video games this weekend, I can pretend Im "testing".

 

[No Limit]

I left my computer on this morning. Now that I'm back from work I see my idle temp is 65C :O.

Is that normal?

 

[Qonfused]

To be honest, don't worry too much about GPU temps. My card has always gone up to 90C under load, and I have an Antec 900 with a 120mm fan pointed straight at it. I think the card was faulty to begin with, but it's lasted more than two years at 90C and still going. Video cards are known to get ridiculously hot, but, at least in my experiences, it can handle them.

 

[taviow]

The hotter, the sooner it will die. That's why people worry. Of course it works at around 90C but... well...
I used Rivatuner to configure a dynamic fan speed. When I'm not running any game, the fan is always at 50%, when it gets hotter than 65C the fan speed changes to 75%.

 

[Asus]

When you see artifacts on the screen caused by heat then you know it is starting to get into a bad temperature range. 60 something at idle is common for a GPU. 40's at idle is very low for a performance card. You probably won't see a noticeable decrease in life expectancy unless it is run over whatever Nvidia designed the chip to run at.

 

[Qonfused]

The hotter, the sooner it will die. That's why people worry. Of course it works at around 90C but... well...
I used Rivatuner to configure a dynamic fan speed. When I'm not running any game, the fan is always at 50%, when it gets hotter than 65C the fan speed changes to 75%.

It's been going for more than two years, and I've never had any shut downs, artifacts or anything else that would indicate I'm hurting the card.

 

[No Limit]

Thanks guys. I put it in a test computer I have later on and see if it gets hot in there just to be safe but I haven't seen anything to indicate its having any problems, performs 1000 times better than my 1650XT.

Also played around with the clock settings on it yesterday and was able to increase the core to 620 (stock 580) and memory to 750 (stock 700) and the temp only went up 2C so I doubt overheating will be a problem for this card. I'll try to take the core up to 680 later tonight and see how it runs.

 

[No Limit]

It's been going for more than two years, and I've never had any shut downs, artifacts or anything else that would indicate I'm hurting the card.

If you aren't planning on buying a video card any time soon maybe invest a few dollars in a new heatsink and fan for it? These chips are silicon so the less heat you apply to them the longer they will last. Just because you dont see anything that indicates damage to the card its lifespan is degrading. But then again if you already had it for 2 years you'll probably be buying a new one soon anyway.

 

[Qonfused]

Oh I know 90C isn't good for it, but I haven't worried about it. I do plan on going to a 8800GT which I then play on buying an aftermarket cooler for it since I'm tired of single slot cooling solutions.

 

[Tyguy]

Thats fine. Mine runs at around the same temp

 

[Kyorisu]

Thanks guys. I put it in a test computer I have later on and see if it gets hot in there just to be safe but I haven't seen anything to indicate its having any problems, performs 1000 times better than my 1650XT.

You realise that testing has already been done for you by the guys that make the card right?

 

[No Limit]

You realise that testing has already been done for you by the guys that make the card right?

I dont trust these people to test anything properly. Last week I got a computer from Acer that had a bad recovery partition so windows wouldn't boot up. Then I opened the case up and found they put in a stick of 256MB of ram instead of 512. At least their support was decent.