Acceptable Video Card Temperatures?

[mnarciso]

So I recently got my eVGA 6600GT and I've been having a blast until I got a blue screen of death from Unreal Tournament 2004. Now I installed clean drivers from the manufacturer and it runs fine for awhile until randomly of course I get a blue screen.

The blue screen tells me nv4_disp.dll is screwed up in some complicated way. I'm hoping its not my card and its just the drivers are screwed up. Unfortunately Nvidia does not support the 6600GT on their site yet as far as drivers and you must use stock drivers for now.

Is nv4_disp.dll an indication of bad drivers or is my card overheating?

I recently started running Real-time HDR IBL for some stress testing, that thing really jacks the temps of your GPU.

Now what is an acceptable temperature? My card shoots up to 84 degrees under full load on that program. The Nvidia defaults the threshold at 127 degrees. Isn't that too hot or are acceptable temperatures on a GPU different then a CPU?

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[imported_kouch]

gpu's do get hotter then cpu's but 84 is still a little bit on the high side. It is nice to keep the temp under 75 to 70 load.

Also what do you mean nvidia doesn't support 6600gt as far as drivers. All nvidia drivers are universal as far as I know and they should work on any nvidia card ever made.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

I have a BFG 6800GT and the hottest I have ever seen it was 82C after hours of games so your temperatures seem a little high. You should be fine though I had my card at 90C after running a program desinged to stress your card to the limit and it is still working fine.

 

[mnarciso]

Please remember it doesn't take hours of gaming to get this temperature this high with this little "stress tester" i'm using.

I am using rthdribl which holy crap really uses your GPU to the max. It runs in a window and you can watch the GPU temperature shoot up right away in under 3 seconds. In Unreal Tournament 2004 I watched my temperature but it doesn't get any higher then 68 degrees in that game so I know it can't be overheating.

you can find rthdribl here and tell me what your results are guys

RTHDRIBL

I just found www.nzone.com that launches beta drivers.

Nvidia.com does not support the 6600GT drivers yet officially. Only manufacturers have the 66.xx drivers that are official at the moment. I was however able to find 66.xx beta drivers at Nzone.com which is I'm guessing also powered by nvidia.com and I played UT2004 for awhile with no problems.

I'll really have to play longer to tell I guess but I'm pretty sure the blue screen was a driver problem, rather then an overheating problem.

Any comments on this?

 

[imported_kouch]

well with windows it is fairly hard to tell what is actually causing the problem driver or the card. I mean all it probably says is that error with nv*.dll etc. All the OS knows is that the critical error was in that Dynamic Link Library, the cause of the error could be anything from display driver, vidcard, memory, cpu, or even some other system components like soundcards etc. So hard to tell. I guess you can try different drivers and see if it fixes the problem.

 

[mnarciso]

Yeah, I've stress tested everything the RAM, CPU, GPU, you name it and they all passed with fly colors. I just got done playing Unreal Tournament for about 2 hours and all went well. I'm assuming that it was a driver problem since I just installed Nvidia's new beta drivers 66.81 seems to have fixed some problems with the new 6600GT's who knows though maybe I'll get that dll error another time.

I don't get that blue screen with any other game so has to be software (driver) related. Thanks for the help.

 

[Subhuman25]

WOW! You must be kidding with those temps!!??
My eVGA 6800GT w/ the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer5 + AS5 paste = 48C/No load & 60C maxed out under heavy load.No overclocking.60C is as high as I've ever seen it.Playing JOPS or FarCry,maxed out everything,it has never seen >60C.
IIRC with the stock cooling on it the temps never rose above 72C under full load.And that was when it was it brand new during break-in period.Added the NV Silencer within 2 weeks.Couldn't be more happy.It certainly quieted down things a lot and cooling is superb and stable(temps don't sway much)

 

[fzaba]

"The blue screen tells me nv4_disp.dll is screwed up in some complicated way. I'm hoping its not my card and its just the drivers are screwed up."

This is caused by WinXP Service Pack 2. Disable Data Execution Prevention. Go to your System's Properties -> Advanced Tab -> Startup and Recovery Settings -> Edit - > change the line that says "noexecute=optin" to "noexecute=alwaysoff".

This is provided you are running service Pack 2.

 

[mnarciso]

WOW! You must be kidding with those temps!!??
My eVGA 6800GT w/ the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer5 + AS5 paste = 48C/No load & 60C maxed out under heavy load.No overclocking.60C is as high as I've ever seen it.Playing JOPS or FarCry,maxed out everything,it has never seen >60C.
IIRC with the stock cooling on it the temps never rose above 72C under full load.And that was when it was it brand new during break-in period.Added the NV Silencer within 2 weeks.Couldn't be more happy.It certainly quieted down things a lot and cooling is superb and stable(temps don't sway much)

First off, I'm running stock cooling on the 6600GT. Nobody ever said your going to need ARTIC COOLING NV SILENCERS and AS5 paste... to run this card, according to most people around 80 at full load is very acceptable and will not harm the GPU.

I never went over 70 either running 3dmark03, however try running the above link and at stock cooling i bet you you'll hit over 72C as that lighting demo takes your card past 100% load and as you'll read in other forums that it pretty much is the ultimate stress test for overheating.

But glad your happy with your tripped out video card.

Originally posted by: fzaba


"The blue screen tells me nv4_disp.dll is screwed up in some complicated way. I'm hoping its not my card and its just the drivers are screwed up."

This is caused by WinXP Service Pack 2. Disable Data Execution Prevention. Go to your System's Properties -> Advanced Tab -> Startup and Recovery Settings -> Edit - > change the line that says "noexecute=optin" to "noexecute=alwaysoff".

This is provided you are running service Pack 2.

I am indeed running service pack 2 =). If this happens again I will take note of your solution and try that. So far no problems with the new Nvidia drivers.

 

[df96817]

Originally posted by: mnarciso
Yeah, I've stress tested everything the RAM, CPU, GPU, you name it and they all passed with fly colors. I just got done playing Unreal Tournament for about 2 hours and all went well. I'm assuming that it was a driver problem since I just installed Nvidia's new beta drivers 66.81 seems to have fixed some problems with the new 6600GT's who knows though maybe I'll get that dll error another time.

I don't get that blue screen with any other game so has to be software (driver) related. Thanks for the help.

I got the same card as you, also using the 66.81 drivers. Has been going good ever since. Also the highest temp I've seen my card run was to 60 C after playing D3 Demo with graphics at max. That's with stock cooling and no fans in the case. I am gonna get a fan in the near future tho.

 

[Chudilo]

Thanks guys for a grat temp test. I was finally able to test out my new Gigabyte 6800 GT that comes with a Huge heatsink that has a heatpipe. the setup seemed to be pretty efficiaent so far.

With GPU Core clocked at 400mhz it topped out at 93 degrees with fan at full blast of 3500rpm.
However everythin was completely stable and running just fine.

I have nto seen temperatures anywhere near that in real life applications.
Doom and Far cry only make the board go up to 63-65 degrees and idle temperatures are around 53

 

[Rhagz]

rthdribl is totally different than usual gaming.. it heats up a card in few minutes far beyond what hours of 3d gaming. If you think your card is only hitting 60-70 when gaming, run rthdribl and see.. you may be shocked.. but it doesnt matter, these cards can handle up to 90 and more.. thresholds start at 115-120 so obviously they are designed to work up to those temps (not constantly, but in spikes)