Video Card Temps.

Cares

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How hot are video cards supposed to get around? I was playing CS:S and checking my temperatures since I just installed a Thermalright XP-120 with a 120 Vantec Stealth and I noticed my XFX Geforce 6600GT PCI-E was at 64 celcius. Is that unusually high? What kind of temperatures do you guys get with cooling by air. I have 2 80mm Vantec Stealths for intake, 1 120mm Vantec Stealth for exhaust, and another side case fan (stock) for intake.

Is my video card running too hot? It doesn't appear like I'm losing performance, but just out of curiousity.
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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That sounds pretty normal for a performance videocard. There are some threads in the Video forum about high temps.

example
 

Lemodular

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I use a 6600GT and those temps are fine. I got even better temps with a new cooler for the card. I wrote some thing about it here.