How hot was your video card? On oblivion

[LOUISSSSS]

x1900xt stock cooling stock speeds dont play oblivion but fear/cs:source for 2 hours gets it up to about 75-80C. kinda scares me sometimes

 

[LordSnailz]

wow, I see at lot of people are getting up to 80C, any consensus on what the general 'safe' temperature range is? For this card and any card in general?

 

[Zenoth]

Up to 90ºC is "safe", above that, let's say 95ºC+, then it could probably damage the card's components in a long term, but don't quote me on this. I had a Radeon X800 XT back a year ago, and at that time I didn't know about custom fan speeds utilities and such, but I knew the card used to run as high as 90ºC very regularly in my 3-D games, and it never, ever produced any artifacts whatsoever, and it never gave me any problems. That beast (the X800 XT) took so much punishment, especially in hot and humid summer days, and it remained 100% functional.

So, as far as ATi cards goes, I'd say a maximum of 90ºC for the current and last generation is safe, even though it does look hot. It's alright for a GPU, but certainly not for a CPU, those are much more sensitive to high temps, at least according to what I've read.

 

[5150Joker]

Check out the temps the Sapphire blizzard is getting in FS's review: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/sap...e_blizzard_radeon_x1900_xtx/page13.asp If someone wants a cooler running XTX that is factory overclocked, this is the card to get.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: apoppin
Even my CPU runs hot playing Oblivion.

sometime my x850xt goes into and stays at "full-whine" [start-up loud] mode for quite awhile during graphically demanding scenes.

it has 2-1/2 years more warranty, so burn away

same here...my cpu hits to 51 C, which I would expect on an overclocked sempron 3100+ (2.069ghz) on a warm day w/ stock HSF. Warm days adds another 5-6 C on the comp. Damn..lol

Now I play at nights, when the temps around my room gets cooler end up having up the cpu pumping out 44 C on average. At that range, the freaking fan doesn't buzzz

"shakes fists @ hot air"