I am becoming more and more disappointed with my 8800GTS as time goes on. Performance is good, of course I could couple it with a faster CPU and whatnot, but the issues recently started cropping up.
Way back when I started 8800, I was quite pleased to be idling at right around 60C and loaded at about 65-67C. This past month has been marred by issues however. Occasional lockups, restarts, and finally a glimpse of a bluescreen or two before automatically restarting.
Last night, I was playing EQ2 casually as I normally do, most definitely not a graphics intensive game unless you turn everything on holy-crap detail (which I don't) - and opened up nTune to reveal the video card was reporting 80C solid! It hasn't been overly lately, and the only change (which should have been for the better) has been a new Antec P180B case and an Arctic Freezer Pro 64 which is definitely doing it's job.
Right now the 8800 is idling at 61C, but it looks like the temperature honeymoon is over. Unless there is something I'm missing, the video card has lost it's cooling efficiency. It may be time to talk to XFX and find out why after 3 months temps on the card are starting to skyrocket.
Way back when I started 8800, I was quite pleased to be idling at right around 60C and loaded at about 65-67C. This past month has been marred by issues however. Occasional lockups, restarts, and finally a glimpse of a bluescreen or two before automatically restarting.
Last night, I was playing EQ2 casually as I normally do, most definitely not a graphics intensive game unless you turn everything on holy-crap detail (which I don't) - and opened up nTune to reveal the video card was reporting 80C solid! It hasn't been overly lately, and the only change (which should have been for the better) has been a new Antec P180B case and an Arctic Freezer Pro 64 which is definitely doing it's job.
Right now the 8800 is idling at 61C, but it looks like the temperature honeymoon is over. Unless there is something I'm missing, the video card has lost it's cooling efficiency. It may be time to talk to XFX and find out why after 3 months temps on the card are starting to skyrocket.