x1900 AIW Currently at 93C under load with ATI tool...

[D22]

How bad is this? I have been running the artifact test for like 6 minutes now. I am just waiting for this thing to crash. It is running at default clocks...

It is also showing as 35.5A, is this normal?

Edit - now at 97C 20 minutes in

 

[Captante]

Not as bad as you might think but it does still seem a bit high... it may be that the fan isn't ramping up quickly enough to keep tempeture in check, so I suggest you try installing either ATI tool or RIVA Tuner to increase the fan speed manually & see if that helps.

 

[Ayah]

The temp is pretty high, but it isn't as crazy as you might think.

 

[Maximilian]

Theyre supposed to run hot. Its one of the reasons i always thought about ditching mine and getting a 79xx and when it eventually broke thats just what i did.

 

[D22]

It was just a fan issue after all...manually setting the fan to 100% and then increasing my voltages actually lowered my temps drastically to the 80's under load.

And wow I am bottlenecked by my CPU even more than I thought...I just overclocked it to 1.98ghz with a 220 bus running 1:1 and my 3dmark05 score jumped over 500 points...to 5950. That is low as hell for an x1900 at these clocks though...

I got my card stable 637 core/639 memory so that is actually a pretty damn good AIW overclock. I bumped my voltages but the temps are lower now oddly enough. I guess now I have to decide on either grabbing a A64 3400+ or 3700+ for the cheapo upgrade or core 2 but then I have to flip my entire platform...At least I know right now I won't really take any performance hit at 1650x1080 even if I max everything for my GPU

 

[moonboy403]

when you overclock your cpu, the in game difference isn't as big as you might think

3dmark shows otherwise simply because it's a synthetic benchmark tool