95°C under load for a 7800GTX... Too hot?

[Chaotic42]

Hi all.

I have an eVGA 7800GTX card in my system. It's been running without problems until I picked up Silent Hunter 4. Now I'm having issues like this. My nVidia control panel says that it's running at 83C, which seems about right. It's so hot that if I touch it, it immediately burns my finger. I know these things get hot, but is this too hot?

Edit: Ooh, I hit 95C in SH4.

 

[John]

What's the temp in your room/office? BTW your system rig link doesn't work properly. Here's the fixed URL.

Under load the 7800GTX runs in the mid 70's to low 80's which could also be influenced by case ventilation.

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2500
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODg1LDEx

Even though the NVIDIA control panel temp slowdown threshold is 130C I find 95C to be a little on the toasty side.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: John
What's the temp in your room/office?

72-76F

 

[Keysplayr]

Toasty for sure. Break out the Marshmallows.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Toasty for sure. Break out the Marshmallows.

It kind of freaks me out that I'm just a few polygons away from boiling water in there.

Edit: Thanks John, I fixed my link. It should work now.

I suppose this all means that I need to analyze the airflow in my case. I have two 80mm fans blowing out right next to the video card, but their air is significantly cooler than the air coming out of the PSU. My CPU is at 73C under load as well.

Maybe I need to move to Canada.

 

[daveybrat]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Toasty for sure. Break out the Marshmallows.

It kind of freaks me out that I'm just a few polygons away from boiling water in there.

Edit: Thanks John, I fixed my link. It should work now.

I suppose this all means that I need to analyze the airflow in my case. I have two 80mm fans blowing out right next to the video card, but their air is significantly cooler than the air coming out of the PSU. My CPU is at 73C under load as well.

Maybe I need to move to Canada.

You need to move into a nice igloo in Alaska, should fix your problem