Good temps for a vid card?

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:20 pm

I have never really worried about Vid card temps but I have heard soo much about Radeon 9800 Pro being hot I thought I better learn a bit here. What is considered a "good" load temp for a 9800? I have a fan controller and I put one of the temp probes on the GPU heatsink ( actually under it) fairly near the core. My load temps get to about 50'. I know I can get them a lot lower than that with aftermarket cooling but I am planning on getting a new CPU, Mainboard and GPU in the next 6 months so I don't want to spend much IF ANY money on cooling this card since I am not sure what I will get yet I don't want to have an after market cooler for this card that wont fit on my new one. Is 50'F under load "bad" or should I be OK for the short term??

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:51 pm

they tend to run hotter than CPU's but you should still folow the general guidelines, dont let it get over 70c thats the danger zone.

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:06 am

I guess what I mean is at what temp. can I be sure that crashes are not caused by temps. Anytime I say I am having crashes someone says "check your temps" when can I be sure temps arent the problem?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:57 am

Merlin wrote:I have never really worried about Vid card temps but I have heard soo much about Radeon 9800 Pro being hot I thought I better learn a bit here. What is considered a "good" load temp for a 9800? I have a fan controller and I put one of the temp probes on the GPU heatsink ( actually under it) fairly near the core. My load temps get to about 50'. I know I can get them a lot lower than that with aftermarket cooling but I am planning on getting a new CPU, Mainboard and GPU in the next 6 months so I don't want to spend much IF ANY money on cooling this card since I am not sure what I will get yet I don't want to have an after market cooler for this card that wont fit on my new one. Is 50'F under load "bad" or should I be OK for the short term??

50F under load is great... but how acurate is your fan controllers readings??
I have a coolermaster controller... the temp readings are WAY off

As infinitevalence said... keep under 70C are you fine (70Ceclius = 158Fahrenheit)

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