I think my 6600GT is way too hot...

[t3h l337 n3wb]

I have a Gigabyte 6600GT running at STOCK in an alluminum Thermaltake Tsunami case. I have a big 120mm fan in the front, a big 120mm fan in the back, a 92mm fan on the side, and a slot-mounted fan (~90mm equivalent I think) right below my 6600GT (chip and HSF are on the bottom). I bought the slot-mounted fan hoping that it would lower my temps, but it seems like it didn't do too much... I'm running ~59C idling, ~87C full load during Doom 3 with 8xAA/16xAF. Yes, I know those are very high temps. Should I try to RMA it? I don't know Gigabyte's RMA policy. Or should I try to buy an aftermarket cooler? Help would be appreciated.

 

[ElTorrente]

There are lots and lots of aftermarket coolers out there. They are easy to install and will work much better than stock cooling. No need to RMA it, since modern video cards all run very hot.

On sort of a side note, I recently switched to water cooling and my overclocked 7800gtx now idles around 39C and will hit 50C while playing BF2 on a hot day. 😀 I love it- clock speed is now 511mhz, and RAM speed is 1450mhz.

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
I have a Gigabyte 6600GT running at STOCK in an alluminum Thermaltake Tsunami case. I have a big 120mm fan in the front, a big 120mm fan in the back, a 92mm fan on the side, and a slot-mounted fan (~90mm equivalent I think) right below my 6600GT (chip and HSF are on the bottom). I bought the slot-mounted fan hoping that it would lower my temps, but it seems like it didn't do too much... I'm running ~59C idling, ~87C full load during Doom 3 with 6xAA/16xAF. Yes, those are very high temps. Should I try to RMA it? I don't know Gigabyte's RMA policy. Or should I try to buy an aftermarket cooler? Help would be appreciated.

WOW!!! My 6600GT was getting artifacts at 60C under load, where are you reading this? RivaTuner, or nvidia driver control panel? Oh yeah, and you can't run Doom 3 at 6 x AA with an nvidia card. nvidia cards only support 2x 4x and 8x. If you set it to 6x, you will not see any AA at all. I'm having trouble with my 6600GT too, I'm gonna order a zalman f700-CU today or tommorw.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Oh right, my bad. Fixed. I'm reading the temps from RivaTuner. I get NO artifacting. Maybe the readouts are wrong?

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
Oh right, my bad. Fixed. I'm reading the temps from RivaTuner. I get NO artifacting. Maybe the readouts are wrong?

usually rivatuner is right and nvidia control panel is wrong. I was reading from nvidia control panel by the way when I had artifacts. I was probably higher than 80C when it said 60C.

 

[reallyscrued]

NV40/41 designed to take temps up to 135 degrees C, less than 90 under load is normal. (Unless you start seeing red bars in the nVidia control panel graph of temps)

 

[Azndude2190]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
I have a Gigabyte 6600GT running at STOCK in an alluminum Thermaltake Tsunami case. I have a big 120mm fan in the front, a big 120mm fan in the back, a 92mm fan on the side, and a slot-mounted fan (~90mm equivalent I think) right below my 6600GT (chip and HSF are on the bottom). I bought the slot-mounted fan hoping that it would lower my temps, but it seems like it didn't do too much... I'm running ~59C idling, ~87C full load during Doom 3 with 8xAA/16xAF. Yes, I know those are very high temps. Should I try to RMA it? I don't know Gigabyte's RMA policy. Or should I try to buy an aftermarket cooler? Help would be appreciated.

todays vid cards can handle the extreme temps so no need to worry anyways the nvidia control panel is always inaccurate

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Originally posted by: Azndude2190

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
I have a Gigabyte 6600GT running at STOCK in an alluminum Thermaltake Tsunami case. I have a big 120mm fan in the front, a big 120mm fan in the back, a 92mm fan on the side, and a slot-mounted fan (~90mm equivalent I think) right below my 6600GT (chip and HSF are on the bottom). I bought the slot-mounted fan hoping that it would lower my temps, but it seems like it didn't do too much... I'm running ~59C idling, ~87C full load during Doom 3 with 8xAA/16xAF. Yes, I know those are very high temps. Should I try to RMA it? I don't know Gigabyte's RMA policy. Or should I try to buy an aftermarket cooler? Help would be appreciated.

todays vid cards can handle the extreme temps so no need to worry anyways the nvidia control panel is always inaccurate

I use RivaTuner, not the nVidia control panel... Aren't 6600GT's supposed to idle at around 55C?

 

[RobbyG]

Is your slot fan in the PCI slot right next to the card? If so, then that doesn't give a clear path for the chip fan to blow hot air. I had my PCI modem in the slot next to my card and my temps went up to 90C under load, took that out and now go up to about 65C max.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Here's the layout:

------------FAN(blows down)---- <--6600GT

------------FAN(sucks air)-- <--slot fan

The slot fan sucks in the air and then blows it out.

 

[cjbee]

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/cf206.html

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: ElTorrente
There are lots and lots of aftermarket coolers out there. They are easy to install and will work much better than stock cooling. No need to RMA it, since modern video cards all run very hot.

On sort of a side note, I recently switched to water cooling and my overclocked 7800gtx now idles around 39C and will hit 50C while playing BF2 on a hot day. 😀 I love it- clock speed is now 511mhz, and RAM speed is 1450mhz.

Wow, insane speeds.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Crescent13

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
I have a Gigabyte 6600GT running at STOCK in an alluminum Thermaltake Tsunami case. I have a big 120mm fan in the front, a big 120mm fan in the back, a 92mm fan on the side, and a slot-mounted fan (~90mm equivalent I think) right below my 6600GT (chip and HSF are on the bottom). I bought the slot-mounted fan hoping that it would lower my temps, but it seems like it didn't do too much... I'm running ~59C idling, ~87C full load during Doom 3 with 6xAA/16xAF. Yes, those are very high temps. Should I try to RMA it? I don't know Gigabyte's RMA policy. Or should I try to buy an aftermarket cooler? Help would be appreciated.

WOW!!! My 6600GT was getting artifacts at 60C under load, where are you reading this? RivaTuner, or nvidia driver control panel? Oh yeah, and you can't run Doom 3 at 6 x AA with an nvidia card. nvidia cards only support 2x 4x and 8x. If you set it to 6x, you will not see any AA at all. I'm having trouble with my 6600GT too, I'm gonna order a zalman f700-CU today or tommorw.

Seriouly, I can't tell if my sarcasm meter is broken. May you confim this for me!?

 

[BOLt]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
I have a Gigabyte 6600GT running at STOCK in an alluminum Thermaltake Tsunami case. I have a big 120mm fan in the front, a big 120mm fan in the back, a 92mm fan on the side, and a slot-mounted fan (~90mm equivalent I think) right below my 6600GT (chip and HSF are on the bottom). I bought the slot-mounted fan hoping that it would lower my temps, but it seems like it didn't do too much... I'm running ~59C idling, ~87C full load during Doom 3 with 8xAA/16xAF. Yes, I know those are very high temps. Should I try to RMA it? I don't know Gigabyte's RMA policy. Or should I try to buy an aftermarket cooler? Help would be appreciated.

that's a lot hotter than it should be... especially for a 6600 and the amount of cooling you've got. check to see that the heatsink and fan are firmly seated on the GPU? RMA?

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

How should I check to make sure the HSF is seated properly? And how do I RMA it? Should I RMA it to Newegg? I can't find Gigabyte's website -_-;