6800U Temperature.....

[warcrow]

When I'm idle, according to the nVidia control panel, I sit around 62c-63c. What about you guys?

 

[lopri]

I don't have an Ultra, but a GT clocked at Ultra frequencies. (400/1100)
54-57C Idle

 

[Actaeon]

Well, I have a 6800GT @ Ultra speeds on a BFG6800GT. It uses the custom copper cooler with 2 small fans.

Idles around 59-61C. Its ambient temperature is 37C. MBM reports CPU is at 40C, and case temps are at 27C. (2500+ @ 3200+ at 1.75v)

 

[warcrow]

Ok, looks about right so far....

 

[jv]

Overclocking with coolbits at 439/1.12 I am at 64c idle.

Does anyone know when you are pushing it to the temp ceiling. The display says it will ratchet down at 115...

thanks
jv

 

[warcrow]

I'm curious about this too.

 

[KaRRiLLioN]

I have an eVGA 6800 Ultra and my temps at idle are 58-60c with an ambient of 44c. This is with the stock aluminum heatsink/fan.

I was getting about 2-3c higher, but I pulled off the assembly, cleaned off the stock thermal grease and put on some arctic silver that I had laying around. I was going to put a Zalman VGA heatsink on there, but the screws were incompatible with the smaller holes on the 6800, so I just put back on the original h/s assembly. Now it runs slightly cooler at idle just because of better thermal paste. That stock h/s is crap though.

I've ordered a swiftech watercooling kit the H20-120 with a VGA waterblock and cpu waterblock for my AMD FX-53, so I'll see if idle is any better with that.

I mainly just get sick of the damned fan noise coming from that vid card. I put a Zalman copper h/s on my cpu and it's a lot more quiet, but the 6800 fan noise more than makes up for that reduction.