8800GTS Temps after a few months getting high.

[SunnyD]

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.

 

[Matt2]

Make sure the HSF isnt clogged with dust or nothing blocking the air passage.

I've actually had the intake on my stock X1900XTX clog with dust and my card was essentially choking on it's own hot air. Idle temps werent effected much, but as soon as I launched a game the temps skyrocketed. I actually had the CCC kick me out of GRAW and the temp was reported at 110*C. LOL.

Also, why not crack off the HSF, give it a good cleaning and apply some AS5?

No doubt XFX used some crappy paste and put waaay too much on.

I cant think of a reason that the GPU itself would just all of the sudden run hotter without you overclocking. There's some variable in your case that is driving up the temp. Whether it be dust in the HSF, your paste burning off, your case air flow is degraded or the ambient temperature in the room (or in the case) has increased considerably.

 

[cubeless]

they are hot cards... my evga is at least that hot... u need to spin the fan up...

 

[hectorsm]

My 8800GTS is 68C idle and about 77C-80C under load. Your card's temprature is not any worse than mine. I think most of these cards are running hot.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: hectorsm
My 8800GTS is 68C idle and about 77C-80C under load. Your card's temprature is not any worse than mine. I think most of these cards are running hot.

When it's definitely heat that's causing system crashes, my temp is definitely worse than yours.

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

My idle is 52-54C and 72-74C under load. I keep the side of the case partially open and run the fan at 70% when gaming. If you haven't done either of those two things, I would recommend it.

Before I cleaned the dust out of my case a few days ago, idle went as high as 62 and I was starting to get BSODs during heavy gaming.

If your load temps go over 80C you're going to have serious problems.