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Gigabyte GTX480 SE temperatures

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Hi, was just looking to idea of what temperatures people are getting with this card, both with stock settings and when overclocked if possible...
 
GB 480 SE temps

I have an SE in a CM Cosmos S case and have set the fans with MSI Afterburner to idle at 32% fan and 44oC. playing Crysis2, BFBC2 etc goes up to 65-70% at 79 to 83oC depending on room temperature. 32% is almost silent.
Stock fan is set to idle at 48% which is to high and slightly audible IMO. Fan at 70% is not too bad but audible over system fans. Quieter and less annoying than a stock 5850.
These are at Stock speeds. Going up to 755 mhz did not seem to have much effect on temps but its only a mild OC.
Its a v.good card but you need adequate case ventilation. I would say Sli would be a different matter as far as noise and temps go.
 
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I have an SE in a CM Cosmos S case and have set the fans with MSI Afterburner to idle at 32% fan and 44oC. playing Crysis2, BFBC2 etc goes up to 65-70% at 79 to 83oC depending on room temperature. 32% is almost silent.
Stock fan is set to idle at 48% which is to high and slightly audible IMO. Fan at 70% is not too bad but audible over system fans. Quieter and less annoying than a stock 5850.
These are at Stock speeds. Going up to 755 mhz did not seem to have much effect on temps but its only a mild OC.
Its a v.good card but you need adequate case ventilation. I would say Sli would be a different matter as far as noise and temps go.

My temps are somewhat higher then that, thinking that I may need get myself a new case. Only got a small 80mm input fan and a 120mm outtake fan on the current case, think the airflow may be somewhat limited...
 
480 soc @ stock , playing ffxiv now and temps were around about 77-78c , now around about 66c

10 degrees less by forcing v sync in the nvidia control panel , which is a result cos it looks better and runs cooler :)
 
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480 SE stock in Antec 900

Crysis 2 for an hour or so

I'm getting average temps of 70c with the fan at the standard 48%
 
480 SE stock in Antec 900

Crysis 2 for an hour or so

I'm getting average temps of 70c with the fan at the standard 48%

Can't understand why my temps are so much higher than yours I would imagine there are very few cases with better airflow than my Cosmos S. Maybe the TPM needs redoing. Anyone taken the cooler off one of these?
 
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