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video card heating up

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Dakotakid44

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I have a 6600 GT that never used to get above 50°C. I've only had the video card a couple of weeks, and now when I play games it goes up to 75° to 80°. I have the updated drivers, and I don't know what's happening.
 
i'll bet it was reading the temperature wrong with the old drivers, 50c is pretty cool for the tiny heatsink they give you...
 
What drivers did you install? Try downloading the current forceware from nvidia's website. The ones on the cd are probably old (just a guess).
 
well i think the new drivers are working fine, showing 75°c as the actual temp...if you want to know for sure get a temp probe and stick it on the back of the card in the center of the gpu area and see what the temps are, or you could always feel the heatsink with your finger to see if it's hotter with one driver... i've never heard of a new driver making a card run hotter... and yeah 75°c is pretty dang hot, dell cases generally have pretty poor airflow for the video card...shop around for a vga silencer, i got one for my 9800 pro and love it...overclocking is only limited by the voltage now since it keeps the temps plenty low.
 
I don't know if the 4600 case is like the 8300 but I had a hard time keeping my 8300 cool. There isn't much airflow besides the ducted fan on the CPU. I flipped mine around to blow on the CPU to keep it cooler and the back of the case got almost too hot to touch.
 
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