Cooking eggs on a passive 8800GT!!

[thilanliyan]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/489/3/

lol, nice!!!

 

[lloydxd]

lol wow thats pretty crazy

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Wow. Too bad the Accelero is better and heat is bad for the card... Now we have computers that cook for us, so we never need to leave!

 

[ja1484]

Not surprising, given the temps. My BFG 8800GT hit 108C with the stock cooler with the ol' bugged 29% fan hold. Put aftermarket cooling on it post-haste after that.

 

[taltamir]

I had an eVGA 8800GTS (G92) 512MB fry itself due to the fan being stuck at 29%... I returned it to frys (and despite my claims of it being broken it was placed back on the shelf) and got another one, this time I set the fan to 52% and its been working good.

Anyways, that egg looks very unappetizing.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Mmm... Salmonella.

 

[Soulkeeper]

nice

 

[Team42]

I'm not sure what that chaps' overclocking skills are like, but he is great at undercooking.

 

[Zap]

Two problems with this. First, probably not getting too good heat transfer between the aluminum "pan" and the GPU plate. Second, author mentions 110ºC wasn't that great for cooking eggs... WTF? Water boils at 100ºC and that's the temperature that "hard boiled eggs" are cooked at, and it takes 15 minutes. So, plenty of heat but probably not enough heat transfer or time.

 

[Marty502]

Originally posted by: Zap
Two problems with this. First, probably not getting too good heat transfer between the aluminum "pan" and the GPU plate. Second, author mentions 110ºC wasn't that great for cooking eggs... WTF? Water boils at 100ºC and that's the temperature that "hard boiled eggs" are cooked at, and it takes 15 minutes. So, plenty of heat but probably not enough heat transfer or time.

You overclock too much.

Anyway, that was fun and way unexpected!

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Marty502
You overclock too much.

I resemble that remark!

Actually, haven't done much lately... need something exciting to get me back into it after last Fall's various E2140 and Celeron 420/Dell BSEL madness.

 

[zorrt]

Well the egg would cook of you put it onto the core where the temps are closer to 110degrees.

 

[taltamir]

ah... good point... the THERMAL SENSOR is at 110c... not the back plate.

 

[ja1484]

Duh?

 

[TheOtherRizzo]

We see idle temps of 75 Degrees C and when 100% stressed for a while 109 degrees C. That's just horrible.

I always find it funny how all these gaming/OC nerds think they know more about what acceptable temperatures are than the real engineers that actually designed the hardware. Especially when they use such qualified and convincing arguments like saying "that's horrible!"

 

[taltamir]

well... The first 8800GTS 512MB I got reached 100c... and after one hour of use it smoked some and died.

I upped the fan on the replacement I got from 29% to 52% and now its nice and cool at 50c idle and 70c load. (it was 75c idle at the default 29% fanspeed).

Also this is just some company who put on a passive fan on it... its not the nvidia engineers who designed the product.

HOWEVER, they did intentionally impede airflow in the case to check "worst case scenario"

 

[RussianSensation]

If you are gonna go passive, better do it RIGHT

Funny thread

 

[Marty502]

Originally posted by: taltamir
well... The first 8800GTS 512MB I got reached 100c... and after one hour of use it smoked some and died.

I upped the fan on the replacement I got from 29% to 52% and now its nice and cool at 50c idle and 70c load. (it was 75c idle at the default 29% fanspeed).

Also this is just some company who put on a passive fan on it... its not the nvidia engineers who designed the product.

HOWEVER, they did intentionally impede airflow in the case to check "worst case scenario"

They probably did.

But then, you'd have to be really, really and I mean really stupid not to have proper case ventilation if you're buying one of those. Or incredibly uninformed. 85ºC under load sounds fine.

Maybe they were trying to stir some controversy up?

Or maybe they were just making a good excuse to cook some eggs.

 

[taltamir]

You mean to UNDERcook eggs
Lets sing the salmonella song everyone!

 

[Marty502]

That's more like it, honestly!