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Is this risky for my video card?

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etalns

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I have my 8800GTX sitting right on top of my sound card. There's about 1m between the vid card and the soudn card. The SC extends up to the 8800GTX's fan. Is this going to be dangerous for my card with the SC blocking most of the bottom of the 8800GTX?

 
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
The sound card should be as far from anything as possible.
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Unfortunately right now it is as far as anything as possible :S There are no slots left on my mobo (it's an el cheapo mobbo, waiting on quad core processors before I go for a new mobo/cpu set up) so that's the only slot it can go into.

If it does overheat, will it just shut down my computer? o r will it ruin the card?
 
Originally posted by: Qosis
I have my 8800GTX sitting right on top of my sound card. There's about 1m between the vid card and the soudn card. The SC extends up to the 8800GTX's fan. Is this going to be dangerous for my card with the SC blocking most of the bottom of the 8800GTX?
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One whole meter is perfectly fine, I'd like to know what it's mounted in 😉. Seriously, I'd say that isn't a very good position. I'd assume the 8800 runs farely hot having 2 plugs connected to it. There's no breathing room for the card so if it starts stalling under hravy load, don't be surprised. Now for the sound card, I doubt there'll be much a problem except for all the hot air coming from it being 'insulated' by something hotter..... Are all your PCI slots filled or can you move it? I'd lose some sleep if my overpriced card was in that position.
 
It should just shut down. You might get some EMI noise on the sound card and more fan noise, but I doubt you'll have a meltdown. Nvidia cards usually have quite a bit of thermal headroom (at stock speeds).
 
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
It should just shut down. You might get some EMI noise on the sound card and more fan noise, but I doubt you'll have a meltdown. Nvidia cards usually have quite a bit of thermal headroom (at stock speeds).
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Great, I'll give it a shot 🙂

It says that my 8800GTx has a tmeperature sensor on it. How would I go about checking what the temperature is on it? Can't seem to find it anywhere.

Thanks again for all of your help! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Imp
Temperature: Properties Desktop-> Settings -> Advanced 0> Nvidia tab
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Great, thanks! 🙂 Is there any chance you know what a good temperature would be?
 
Originally posted by: Imp
Originally posted by: Qosis
I have my 8800GTX sitting right on top of my sound card. There's about 1m between the vid card and the soudn card. The SC extends up to the 8800GTX's fan. Is this going to be dangerous for my card with the SC blocking most of the bottom of the 8800GTX?
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One whole meter is perfectly fine, I'd like to know what it's mounted in 😉. Seriously, I'd say that isn't a very good position. I'd assume the 8800 runs farely hot having 2 plugs connected to it. There's no breathing room for the card so if it starts stalling under hravy load, don't be surprised. Now for the sound card, I doubt there'll be much a problem except for all the hot air coming from it being 'insulated' by something hotter..... Are all your PCI slots filled or can you move it? I'd lose some sleep if my overpriced card was in that position.
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There are no other pci slots left unfortunately 🙁
 
I have onboard sound I could use right now as well if I stopped using the other sound card. Given that I always use headphones when I play (2.1 headphones I believe) would that significantly deteriorate sound performance? and how CPU heavy are the onboard sound cards?
 
Decided not to risk it =P Going to go out and buy a new mobo tomorrow.

If I get an AM2 mobo, can I still use my DDR ram?
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
Originally posted by: Qosis
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=0&model=766&modelmenu=1

That's the mobo I have.
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You are using this board for a 8800GTX card?

You REALLY NEED to upgrade your board to match the quality of your card. :Q

You should upgrade at least to the A8N-E:

http://www.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3...l3=171&slname=NVIDIA%20nForce4%20Ultra

ALOHA
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all that matters is that he has a pci-e 16x slot and it does.

op - i would use onboard sound since you are just headphones until you get another board, but i wouldn't rush out and get a new m/b for 939 since your 8800 is fine in the m/b you currently have.

asus makes good boards from their top-of-the-line to the more budget boards so i see nothing wrong with it. i know many times i have used low-mid range boards because i don't need all the bells and whistles of the higher end boards and thus for me it would be a waste. nothing wrong using a budge board imho with a 8800.
 
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