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6800GT temperature issues

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imported_MrBojangles

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I recently noticed that my 6800gt's temperature seems ridiculously high. Everything's at stock, and yet it idles anywhere from 65-74 celsius and hits as high as 95 on load. Mobo is the first revision of the abit av8. I've definitely had issues with the motherboard reading my cpu temp wrong as a probe from my fan controller reads it a good bit lower, and it would seem some others have had similar issues, but I can't see how the motherboard's reading would have any effect on my video card's.

The machine's been assembled for a good 8 months, and since the time of building I had never seen the card go above 60 or so on load. Case is a thermaltake xaser V with decent circulation and plenty of fans, two being directly over the card on the side panel.

The only other thing I could possibly think of that might affect this would be drivers, as I just started using the 77.72's. I tried 71.89's and beta 77.50's but neither seemed to make a difference. For what it's worth, I just reformatted and updated my bios, but that also seemed to make little difference. I'm now considering getting a zalman heatsink replacement to get things cooler, but I'd like to explore every possibility first as temps were fine in the past.

Any help is much appreciated
 
That really sucks. My friend's X850XT PE just started doing the same thing to him too. Somewhere around 90c full load........:Q Don't know man but good luck. If he finds a fix for it I'll let you know and maybe it will help u out too.
 
I've cleaned up some of the cables and have total clearance over and around the motherboard, but no dice. There aren't any pci cards on the mobo save for one small sound card that isn't taking up any space at all, so the card definitely isn't crowded. Not really sure where to go from here...thanks guys.
 
The same happened to me. I cleared up all the cables and still the same. I then saw a PCI-slot fan @ Fry's and figured what the heck for $10. It worked great and dropped the case temp as well. Now, I never go above 70c at load. May not help you but it worked for me.
 
Originally posted by: slsmnaz
The same happened to me. I cleared up all the cables and still the same. I then saw a PCI-slot fan @ Fry's and figured what the heck for $10. It worked great and dropped the case temp as well. Now, I never go above 70c at load. May not help you but it worked for me.
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Did you get one pulling air from the back onto the GPU, or off the GPU out the back?
 
touch the gpu heatsink or the back plate on it. if it feels hot under idle temps, then it probably is. if it feels way too hot under load then its a true reading. 203 degrees F would pretty much be too hot.
 
I believe that the temperture you are reading is correct...

and the old temperature (60 or so) is kinda wrong i think..since you said that was the temperature on 'load'

If you are using a stock HSF, that temperture is about right I think.

my eVGA 6800gt was about the samel.. just little lower..

but after I got the Zalamn HSF, it went down whole lot..
if you are *highly* concerned about the temperature and considering OCing, changing the HSF to after market HSF is necessary..

and yes, good air flow for whole case is important..
 
I went to Fry's, but they didn't have any pci slot fans. I guess it would be better to just get a zalman replacement HSF, overclocking would be nice. Any suggestions on particular ones? Also, this does happen to be an eVGA.
 
Has anyone considered that as the material (whatever the manufacturer used) between the stock heatsink and the GPU ages it loses proper heatconductivity? maybe all you need to do is remove your stock fan/heatsink and clean the heatsink base and the surface of the GPU - then apply some Arctic Silver or something - reassemble and see if your temperatures change - and don't forget to clean the fan and whatever the surface of the heatsink is. I've never tried this but it seems like a good thing to try. I have a 5900XT that's almost two years old. I have no idea what temperature it runs at but I do know that it contributes considerably to case temps under load. Maybe tomorrow I'll try this on my video card if I can get the fan off without destroying the ability to put it back on again. It's an MSI card chosen for its quiet fan.
 
Same thing happened to my Sapphire X850 XT. On idle, temps are ok, around 40, but on load, it went up to 95 as well, before the ATI driver told me it had to underclock the card so the temps could go down a bit. I solve my problem by running ATI Tray Tools, and manually controlling the fan speed, but I don't know if a similar program is available for nVidia cards. I am really considering the Zalman VF 700 VGA cooler, it's getting really good reviews; plus, it seems to be pretty quiet.

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