285 keeps room nice and warm 660 is like a fridge!

[weehamish]

The difference is amazing but no good for the winter!

I think the 285 got up to 75C, i really dunno how it can produce so much heat, my legs go numb when gaming with the 660 its that cold lol.

Whats the hottest card you have had?

 

[kissenger]

9800GTX for me.

 

[Cleeecooo]

6970 -hotter than my 480 SOC (to be fair, the coolers weren't even )

 

[Tonester0011]

My 6970 got to 88c frequently. Stock cooler with no fan profile though :L

 

[weehamish]

88C?!!

How hot did your room get?

 

[setter]

You want heat, stick a pair of gtx 470/80's in sli and youll get plenty. Used to run sli 470's, 76c on the top card, 70 on the bottom one with a pretty loud custom fan profile. On auto fan they were into the mid 80's.

 

[Cleeecooo]

88C?!!

How hot did your room get?

My 6970 went to 90 pretty regularly

Room was boiling (only because of the 6970 though )

 

[Tonester0011]

88C?!!

How hot did your room get?

My 6970 went to 90 pretty regularly

Room was boiling (only because of the 6970 though )

Clee answered it ^ lol

 

[Rroff]

GTX470 SLI clocked to 800MHz with a small voltage bump puts out some heat actually missing it atm as I'm mostly using my laptop for gaming which doesn't put out anything like as much heat.

 

[spoffle]

Core temp doesn't correlate with heat kicked out of the card though.

Wattage is the actual indicator of how much heat will be being kicked out of a case from a graphics card.

That said, I remember my 2900 keeping my room quite warm.

 

[SkodaMart]

GTX470 SLI clocked to 800MHz with a small voltage bump puts out some heat actually missing it atm.

This^

I now have a cold draft up my leg!

 

[Gregster]

GTX470 SLI clocked to 800MHz with a small voltage bump puts out some heat actually missing it atm as I'm mostly using my laptop for gaming which doesn't put out anything like as much heat.

My older MSI gaming laptop was a killer for heat. No chance of actually putting it on your lap, unless you like 3rd degree burns.

 

[SkodaMart]

8800 GTX SLI, I didn't switch the heating on that year!

 

[weehamish]

My older MSI gaming laptop was a killer for heat. No chance of actually putting it on your lap, unless you like 3rd degree burns.

Lol this is why i dont game on laptops! That is crazy.

Im missing my 285 atm its freezing these days!

 

[Geo-Gamer]

Lol this thread is quite funny....

I have the heating off in my room all year round, as we speak my mum and dad have the heating on all around the house and my rooms heating is off thanks to the pc - they are quite happy with my pc actually saves them some money

 

[Tonester0011]

Lol this thread is quite funny....

I have the heating off in my room all year round, as we speak my mum and dad have the heating on all around the house and my rooms heating is off thanks to the pc - they are quite happy with my pc actually saves them some money

I can turn my fans to about 20% load, run Heaven3.0 and leave it looping - that's a nice heater whilst watching TV/PS3.

 

[Rroff]

My older MSI gaming laptop was a killer for heat. No chance of actually putting it on your lap, unless you like 3rd degree burns.

I don't have it on my lap (its hooked up with keyboard, mouse and monitor) - its suprisingly low heat output too considering it has a GTX675m which is essentially the same as a desktop GTX560ti (non-448) but I've clocked it back up to roughly 560ti448 performance levels (benches only slightly behind a GTX480 with the clock on it).

 

[weehamish]

I can turn my fans to about 20% load, run Heaven3.0 and leave it looping - that's a nice heater whilst watching TV/PS3.

Lol this made me laugh.

So you turn on your pc stick it on loop, then go play ps3 or watch tv? WTF?

 

[Gregster]

I don't have it on my lap (its hooked up with keyboard, mouse and monitor) - its suprisingly low heat output too considering it has a GTX675m which is essentially the same as a desktop GTX560ti (non-448) but I've clocked it back up to roughly 560ti448 performance levels (benches only slightly behind a GTX480 with the clock on it).

Nice system. Meaker I think had a laptop in the 3DMark11 thread that smashed up loads of 7970s. It used the 680M GPU with an I7 iirc. My current laptop uses a 6950 (6850 equivalent GPU I believe) with an I5 and this is plenty for games. The only thing I dislike about modern games is the fact they need to be on the internet to get working. I only use my laptop at work (nights/weekends) for gaming when we have a slack few hours) and sadly I can't play any modern games due to no internet

 

[setter]

GTX470 SLI clocked to 800MHz with a small voltage bump puts out some heat actually missing it atm as I'm mostly using my laptop for gaming which doesn't put out anything like as much heat.

Tbf, i didnt mind the high temps that came with 470 sli, it was just the noise that came with it. Was fine with nc headphones on though when gaming. They were much cooler than my stock speed gigabyte wf 460's, 96 and 89c after two minutes in bf3. Had to ditch the notion of sli with those cards very quickly.