6800gt overheating

[luigi1]

I have a topic in software on this, I'm cross posting to ask the experts here. Guild wars, the new game in town is overheating video cards right, left and center. In my case I have an evga 6800gt that I bought in november (refference design). Whats the best air cooling soultion? Is an nv silencer better that the stock cooling? Ive checked the fan and blowen out the card and this is happening to a lot of peaple. Thanks for your knowlegable reply.

 

[KoolDrew]

Exactly what temps are you getting?

 

[luigi1]

Useing my calibrated finger thermoter its betweem hot and OMGWTFBBQ hot. Its to hot and the software house that developed the game sugested that that was the problem. I can hold my finger on the top of the fan houseing and its hot there not warm, theres quite a thermal circuit from there to the chips themselves.

 

[KoolDrew]

That helped a lot!

 

[luigi1]

sorry, forum noob

 

[KoolDrew]

The best is the Zalman VF-700 CU. It doesn't push air out of the case like the nv silencer does though. To cool better with the Zalman you could get something like this along with it.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=370034

 

[ddogg]

still the Zalman VF700 is undoubtedly the best cooler for ur card....would be able to overclock nicely as well...

 

[fstime]

Stock cooling is the best.

Unless your overclocking or your temps are above 65C idle/80C load, your fine.

Avg temps are 55/70.


Dont ruin your warrenty.




Unless you post some idle/load temps, your thread is useless.

 

[Fenuxx]

Just go into the NVIDIA control panel to see what you are idling at. To get load temps, I use RTHDRIBL. Just run it while you have the NV control panel open. This should give you your load temps. Also, could you give us some info regarding the NVIDIA drivers that you are using? Anything earlier than 71.84 (I think) has the infamous "temp bug" in which temps (load) are reported about 8-10c higher than they actually are. If this is the case, then subtract 8-10c from whatever you get with the RTHDRIBL run, and that should give you roughly the right temps.

 

[Mrvile]

Your video card shouldn't be overheating if you haven't overclocked it. Also, a touch test isn't the best way to judge how hot your video card is because they do get quite hot, which is perfectly normal. Use the nVidia settings tab Temperature Settings to check your temps.

I use an NVSilencer5 which works great, and gives me about 10 degress lower than my stock cooler, and is much quieter, but ruins the warranty and cost me about 30 dollars.

 

[JBT]

The Zalman Vf700 is a better cooler. I have used an NV Silencer 5 and the Zalman, The Zalman is better for cooling and its quieter.