Finding temperature of Connect3d x800gto card?

[Bbc84]

I bought my Connect3d x800GTO card on friday, and just finished building the entire system. i already flashed the card with the new bios to unlock to 16 pipelines and that worked. I started overclocking it already with ATI Tool and got it up to 534/549 but i kept hearing a beep and some message in ati tool scan artifact test something about a pixel and Delta of... So i didnt go higher. I noticed in other forums and threads people were posting the temperature of the cards on stock cooling. And how thats done, because i didnt see any temp readings in ATI tools or the ATI catalyst control pannel.

 

[Bbc84]

ttt anyone know the answer?

 

[Powermoloch]

Weird...CCC should display the temps without a problem...or the flashing did screwed something up.

 

[ITPaladin]

temperature is listed right on the main panel when set in temp settings. It should even be in the the system tray when minimized there.

 

[Bbc84]

hmmm Its not there, however when i put my mouse over the tray icon it says 1280x1024 (0degrees), Color 32Bpp.

and i cant find anything in the Catalyst Control Center.

I downloaded Rivatunner in addition to ATItool and it was able to read the core temp and ambient temp though, so i guess it doesnt matter if i cant see it in the ATI utility.

it runs at 47C with no load, and when running ATItools spinning 3d cube it goes to 75C. Then having ATItool find the max core and mem. it holds steady at 80C with the clocks set at 438/543.

Is that really hot at 80C degrees for a graphics card or can it take more heat?

 

[Munky]

80C is hot. Did you set the fan at 100%? My gto never went above 75C at 580mhz, becasue I manually set the fan higher. If it is at 100% and 80C then either you have terrible case airflow, there's too much thermal paste under that cooler, or there's a ton of dust inside your case. If you can get the temperature down you should be able to hit at least 500mhz.

 

[Bbc84]

oh after looking for the fan controls, i found that the temperature montiro on ATI tool was unchecked so it wasnt showing it at default.

There should be no dust, as this computer was just built a couple days ago from scratch, it might be the airflow though, this is a Antec Sonata Case, i havent bought the optional 120mm intake fan yet. All it has is a 120mm case fan and the fan from the PS.

 

[Bbc84]

BTW including the extra optional 120mm intake case fan, i was thinking of buying a PCI slot fan where it takes one of the PCI slots and has the exhaust. I was thinking of putting that like 1 or 2 slots below the video card. would that be good? or should i just buy a aftermarket cooler for the video card.

 

[fliguy84]

buying an aftermarket cooler is the best way to cool your card, but at the expense of voiding your warranty. but as long as you do it right, it won't impose any danger. on the contrary, it might even increase the lifetime of your card (running cooler)

 

[Bbc84]

Does it matter which one i get as long as it says for ATI X800, or is the connect3d X800gto card build differntly than regular ATI x800 cards?