Greetz from Arizona

[VinDSL]

Cool wave here today: Mostly Cloudy - 111° | 76°

I had to crank the CPU fan to 2000 RPM. 1500 RPM wasn't cutting it...

Normally my CPU/Mobo temps are the same @ idle, but CHECK IT OUT

Dry Heat, right?

How are things on your end?

 

[MarcVenice]

It's raining in Holland for crying out loud, after having had the the earliest 'hottest' days in the year ever. So my cpu is running along just fine

 

[Synomenon]

Gonna be 112° F here today. 114° tomorrow and 115° the day after. We don't get a break until Friday when it goes back to 111°. We have our AC on full blast right now though (we usually only turn it on later in the day). My CPU and video card's temps. are ok right now.

 

[Ackmed]

Is this suddenly OT?

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Is this suddenly OT?

I'm in Hell and the devil's sticking a pitchfork in my brand new video card - 3 days old it is!

It's not OT for me...

Any suggestions?

 

[postmortemIA]

Apoppin, your rig is gonna fry.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Apoppin, your rig is gonna fry.

Bwahahahaha!

I forgot about apoppin...

I'm listening to a radio station from rainy Holland. Maybe that'll cool things down!

 

[MegaVovaN]

California Silicon Valley FTW My GPU temps are as usual, 62° C // 143.6 Farenheit

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
My GPU temps are as usual, 62° C // 143.6 Farenheit

WoW! :shocked:

Is that normal?

My old vid card didn't have a temp sensor. Maybe I'm [ahem] sweating over nothing!

 

[MegaVovaN]

I wouldn't say that is bad. It's a 6800GT, back from RMA, after LEADTEK one died on me in one year. It's been at this temp all the time, winter or summer, California or Texas.

 

[ronnn]

Not too hot here. Actually I think I would die at 112F..... Growing up in the N.A. version of Siberia has made me very sensitive to heat. So I make sure my gpu always stays very cool running. (John Candy was a classic).

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: ronnn
Not too hot here. Actually I think I would die at 112F...

Actually, you're partially right...

The desert either makes you healthy, or it kills you - no doubt about it!

In the old days, if someone had tuberculosis, or whatever, they told them to move to Arizona.

Anyway, I don't think summer heat does much for electronics!

Gawd! Why do GPUs run so hot, even under normal conditions?

Doesn't this worry anybody but me?

When's the last time you heard about someone burning up a CPU? With vid cards, it happens all the time...

 

[MegaVovaN]

CPUs are not burned up because they have antiburn sensor. IT turns off the CPU if temps are too hot.
GPUs, don't know if they have this sensor, but they generate significantly more heat! Alot more transistors = more power used = more heat given off. This is why you buy monster PSUs for video cards.

Don't worry about temp of your video card until you see artifacts...when you see artifacts (probably above 100 C // 212 F), THEN it's too hot.

 

[PCTC2]

nVIDIA cards have a cut-off temperature. my 7950GT is set at 135C. it's like 70-80F and my first 7950GT idles at 50C and the other idles around 60C. I can't wait until I move out to the Southwest. My idle temp will be around 80C! haha. Yeah, I'm RMAing my 7950GT b/c it's starting to artifact at stock speeds. And I have "good airflow" (Antec 900 with as many fans on Medium as possible (6 case fans, and 4 HS Fans). Stupid heat. It heats my room to about 90F, and with my A/C at full blast, maybe i can cool my room to about 65F.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: PCTC2
nVIDIA cards have a cut-off temperature...

Yeah, I was going to say...

It looks like these 7600 GTs will slow down at a certain temp.

Should I lower the temp to 100C?

 

[PCTC2]

nah. If your CPU is @ 45C now, you'll never even get close to 90C, let alone 100. don't worry about it.

 

[VinDSL]

Okie dokie!

Still, it confirms what MegaVovaN was saying...

100-115C seems to be the danger zone, yes?

 

[PCTC2]

yup. but i've never seen a video card above 90C unless you purposely block the airflow.

 

[VinDSL]

~Cool

Heh!

Airflow is NOT a problem with my case...

 

[CrystalBay]

I am 120 tomorrow predicted, Happy Fourth every one. luckily I have A C and it's at 78 degrees ...

 

[MegaVovaN]

Hey, you live in the desert, CrystalBay - at least it's not hot AND humid, like in Houston I'll take 120F in dry conditions over 95F with 100% humidity any day.

 

[CrystalBay]

yeah, humidity makes all fans work harder...

 

[MegaVovaN]

Dude! I don't care about fans working harder - heat is unbearable when it's humid because sweat does not evaporate! Therefore it does not cool the skin!

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: PCTC2
yup. but i've never seen a video card above 90C unless you purposely block the airflow.

WHAT? lol. the 6800 ultra's, x1900xtx's usually hit 90C under what some people consider "normal" circumstances

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: VinDSL
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Ackmed
Is this suddenly OT?</end quote></div>
I'm in Hell and the devil's sticking a pitchfork in my brand new video card - 3 days old it is!

It's not OT for me...

Any suggestions?

Sure, have you never heard of Air Conditioning?
... even evaporative cooling if your humidity is low?
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Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Apoppin, your rig is gonna fry.

nope ... i am in the "high" desert at 3,000 feet ... Palm Springs and the "low desert" drops to below sea level and is at least 10F hotter ... they got to 118 yesterday ... we hit 108F

INSIDE my house - i DO have A/C but i NEVER use it [except to test it 2x a year] ... using my roof-mounted water-cooler, the temps inside my house never rose over 78F ... that's 30F cooler using simply evaporative cooling - it's a "dry" heat