9800GTX+ a bit warm

[WildW]

Just got hold of a 9800GTX+ . . . I was initially impressed with the fancy beheatpiped cooler (clicky piccy linky), but am now a bit worried that it's not good.

Running at stock speeds (738MHz core) the stability test in Furmark quickly raises the temperature until it's hovering around 100 degrees C. . . which seems warm. This is with the case open and even with extra fanage to remove heat and bring in more cool air.

Other folks talking about theirs seem to be talking about load temps around 70 or so. Should I be returning my card?

 

[Denithor]

Use RivaTuner to increase your fanspeed. That should help.

Also keep in mind Furmark is designed to push a card as hard as it can, often cards heat up a lot more than they do during actual gaming.

 

[WildW]

Have tried 100% fanspeed. The auto-fan is doing 100% from about 80C upwards anyway.

To be fair I haven't had any problems when playing games or running 3DMark, though I haven't done either particularly long-term. It was more that the temps made me cringe. Nothing should ever hit 100 surely?

 

[zerocool84]

The highest my 9800GTX+ hit in furmark was 73*C

Maybe the heatsink wasn't mounted properly.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: WildW
Nothing should ever hit 100 surely?

I've seen those temps with most high end cards. Really though, which game will heat it up like Furmark can?

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: WildW
Nothing should ever hit 100 surely?

I've seen those temps with most high end cards. Really though, which game will heat it up like Furmark can?

None.

My 4870 only gets to no more than 75C under any gaming load, thats with another hot 4870 below it. VRMs hover around 80c. Now using furmark with a single card and renaming the exe, the vrms on the card get to 110C and core to 85 - 90 at 100% fan speed.

Both my sapphire (Cooler is better than stock, single 80mm fan in the middle) and MSI card (Stock) have much more aggressive fan speed curves than what the stock cards do and both of them get to the same temps. I've only tested it once for a few mins, didn't want to risk destroying the cards.

Furmark is great way to burn your cards.

 

[dguy6789]

There's something wrong with your card if it can't run furmark indefinitely at stock clocks and cooling.

 

[WildW]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
There's something wrong with your card if it can't run furmark indefinitely at stock clocks and cooling.

This is the thing. . .it hasn't actually gone wrong, no artifacts or crashes. . . it just made me think it was about to melt at any moment, or at least when we move out of snowman season and into summer. Maybe that's what warranties are for and I should ignore it until it dies, if it ever does.

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: WildW
Nothing should ever hit 100 surely?

I've seen those temps with most high end cards. Really though, which game will heat it up like Furmark can?

You'll be surprised, but that game is Burnout Paradise The ultimate with SSAO enabled. That game gives me exactly the same temperatures that furmark does, on my 4870. So it seems that Furmark is not that over the edge.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
There's something wrong with your card if it can't run furmark indefinitely at stock clocks and cooling.

I agree, the 9800GTX+ shouldn't be around 100c.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
There's something wrong with your card if it can't run furmark indefinitely at stock clocks and cooling.

There's nothing wrong with the card if its ~100C in Furmark, that's quite normal for high-end GPUs with air cooling and reasonable RPMs and noise. If its stable I wouldn't worry about it, no game I've seen has come even close to those temps in actual gaming.

Nvidia wasn't concerned enough about those kinds of temps to artificially throttle them, unlike ATI did as seen in FurGate. Not surprising given people were complaining about 80-90C *idle* temps at the time with 4800s. How quickly some forget.....