8600gts is toasty

[arcenite]

Sister just got an 8600gts, which after an hour of furmark, is sitting toasty at 94c 😱

Makes overclocking kind of difficult. Looking to get the cheapest "out the back" cooler I can. I can't seem to find any ATI Silencers that will fit. Any recommendations?

 

[lavaheadache]

I think you mean arctic silencer, not Ati silencer

 

[arcenite]

I think you mean arctic silencer, not Ati silencer

Well, yes. Arctic's version of the silencer that fit ATI cards was called the ATI Silencer, I believe.

 

[lavaheadache]

yeah and the ones for nvidia cards are called NV silencer

 

[error8]

Makes overclocking kind of difficult.

Why on earth would you overclock that card? It will bring no performance improvement whatsoever.

 

[lavaheadache]

Why on earth would you overclock that card? It will bring no performance improvement whatsoever.

not entirely true

 

[betasub]

Sister just got an 8600gts, which after an hour of furmark, is sitting toasty at 94c 😱

That's what Furmark does. It stresses the GPU far beyond normal 3D apps/games, so 94C is reasonable, although most ppl wouldn't consider it acceptable under normal operation.

8600GTS was neither fast for its time, nor highly overclockable. Tweaking & overclocking out of interest/principle, maybe - but spending money on an aftermarket cooler for this old, slow card?

 

[evolucion8]

8600GT with recent driver optimizations finally catched up with the X1950PRO in newer games. Furmark will tax your GPU so hard that in some scenarios, it had burned some GPU's hehe. No game will tax your GPU that hard so don't worry about your toasty temperatures. Mine could reach up to 94C in the Core and 105C in the shader core, but in reality, in games, the core never exceeds 75C and the shader rarely reaches 90C, so you are good, for more peace in mind, put some AS5 or Shin Etsu. 🙂

 

[x3sphere]

Why are you running Furmark for an hour. Good way to suck the life out of your card. 5 minutes is enough, 10 at best..