xfx 9800gt getting hot

[mentalcrisis00]

Hey all

Just got an xfx 9800gt and I'm really loving the performance boost. My only problem is heat. I'd rather keep the stock cooler because it is really nice and I love xfx's card design. But it runs idle at 70-73C and load at 76-78C, my old EVGA 7800gt only ran 55C idle and 76C load and about 10 degrees lower when I installed a zalman vf900.

My games aren't crashing or slowing down at all but everything just runs hot and I'm worried about developing problems down the road seeming I'd like to go sli. I have an 80mm exhaust fan in the back, a 120 exhaust on my radiator, 80mm intake on the front top of the case, and my PSU has two low rpm 80mm's. Anyone have an idea of a fan or fan configuration that might work better than what I have now? I was thinking about moving the 80mm intake to my side window and have it blowing directly on the card, would this make any difference? I have everything in an old full ATX tower which has alot of room inside.

Final question is should I really worry about this? As stated there is no performance dip during gaming and no crashes since I installed the card. The system is just running hotter than I'm used to.

Thanks in advance

 

[Astroluna]

i have the same card, overclocked to 725/100 and im around 60-65*C playing COD4 and Warhammer.

i had the heat problem also, it was that thefan was always@ 25-30%.

download riva tuner and set it to %100 before you play your games.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

ya I tried using ntune and raised the speed by only 10% and it took the heat down 15 degrees but it wouldn't save, every time I rebooted it would reset to default which drives me crazy. Would like to set it and forget it to coin a phrase, I'll check out rivatuner and see how that goes.

thanks

 

[Astroluna]

http://www.clanbbw.com/publici...mages/rivatunerjpg.jpg

check out that img link.

theres a box that you check for fan and or OC settings to auto apply then upon windows restart. gluck.


edit: also set up a profile for the fan speeds so all you do is rightclick tha taskbar icon and click your desired speed.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

OH THANK YOU THANK YOU, I got it setup to run at 40% on startup. I've known about Riva for awhile but never bothered to use it seeming my zalman heatsink was so quiet I just set it to 100% all the time. This makes things much easier and GPU is now 15 degrees cooler.

Again thank you I'm all set now.