85'C too hot for a video card?

[Coldkilla]

Idel at: 50'C. Then after in use for a few hours: 85'C. Is this too hot for a video card?

I'm just wondering because my computer has been blue screening and shutting off after using a program like the Crysis map editor or a game like Sim City 4 after about an hour. I'm running an Nvidia monitor right now to save the temperature in a wordpad in the event of another shutdown, but if I were to get a GPU Fan, does that void the warrenty? If so, I'm very hesitant to do it, considering the GPU cost me over $400. (8800GTX). I just bought a large monitor, I don't know if that's contributing to it. (24'' 3ms). The CPU is running cool at 23'C-30'C last time I checked.

Edit: Its a eVGA card, am I able to remove the stock fan and add a 3rd party WITHOUT voiding the warrenty? And/or is it better to purchase a stock-case-fan, remove the stock fan for the GPU and have that fan keep the GPU cool. Or what exactly is the best method?

 

[Strebor]

Try mounting a spare case fan near the card.

 

[Coldkilla]

Something like this do you mean?? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835200019

 

[Coldkilla]

Well I bought it, I hope that fixes the problem. I also hope whats causing it to get so hot is the fact with my new monitor I went from native (19'' monitor 1280x1024 to 24'' monitor 1920x1200)

 

[LOUISSSSS]

nope that probably won't help much. sorry u just wasted some of ur money.

what u should have done is clean out your case and make sure theres good airflow without all the wires blocking the air from circulating.
u also should of cleaned out all the dust from inside ur case and 8800gts heatsink.
and lastly u should of removed the 8800gtx heatsink and re-applied it with as5 or another TIM.

lastly u should've gotten an aftermarket cooler such as the AC or TR ones for sale and well discussed on these forums and NOT buy those PCI slot fans that don't do anything but move a bit of air and recirculate HOT air

 

[imported_Scoop]

Don't know about the 8800GTX but I would assume it handles more heat than that when the 8800GT can handle something like 110C. My Radeon 3850 also idles at just below 50C and the target for the fan with this card is set to 90C, the fan won't speed up before that temp.

 

[Synomenon]

85C is fine. If it starts getting to over 95C after the few hours, then you can start worrying.

 

[Coldkilla]

Well I just don't understand, my computer runs a cpu intensive operation (like playing Crysis or anything like it) and always blue screens after about an hour. This never happened when I had my 19'' monitor... :/ -- no hardware or software changes since then.

 

[Roguestar]

Most graphics cards now are good up to 90°C or so, perhaps as mentioned before just point another fan over it.

Try also using nTune or RivaTuner to up the speed of the graphics card fan; I found out mine was only hitting 40% max speed at its hottest for some reason.