7800GT - 117c...owch

[Neolink]

ok since the weather has heated up abit, so has my 7800GT! currently idling at 72c and thats with the side of my PC off and a desktop fan blowing at it the highest ive seen it go today has 117c under load, average is about 108c though this cant be normal, i even have a zalman fatality cooler on it...anyone know why its hitting such temps?

 

[Darkwave]

Holy crap, that's stupidly hotter than my X1800XT with VF900 on it.

Have you tried reapplying thermal compound and reseating the HSF?

Edit: Just noticed the 70c was the idle temp, I thought that was load.

 

[Gashman]

thats very very high by any standards, might sound daft but make sure the fans spinning, i have fatal1ty cooler on my 7600GT and one day a wire got snagged in the fan and completely stopped it

Edit: wait just a minute, would it reach those temps. if the fan had completely stopped or not?

 

[wellibob]

117 degrees , are you wise ????

 

[pcknight]

Stop the PC! That seems way too high. Check the fan and if it is sitting right mate.

 

[Neolink]

just inspected abit, the cooler itself is too hot to touch so i guess its doing its job. the problem must be elsewhere:/

 

[DinAlt]

Thats got to be wrong mate.

I've just been playign CoD2 for 2 hours with my 7800GT overclocked as far as it will go and it only hits about 65 C. Case temp is 40 C.

DinAlt

 

[Plasmoid]

Only by turning off the fan on my x1800xt and overvolting and overclocking and seriously stressing it i can just about get the temps to go over 100 C

It dies at 112 C

Basically anything over 100 C is extremly bad.

There is something seriously wrong there. The cooler might be hot but double check that fan to make sure its spinning and spinning at speed. If you have rivatuner check the monitoring graphs to see what speed it as rotating at.

 

[Neolink]

crikey the fan is actually not spinning, ill go see what i can do now asap! i didnt notice earlier because i pretty much just brushed my fingers across the heatsink fins without looking, ill update later

 

[Neolink]

was exactly what Gashman said, the fan wire had gotten caught in the fan, thus stopping it from spinning idleing at 46c currently, much better than 70c+

 

[Darkwave]

Sounds like you've got it fixed, and a good job too before your card ended up frying.

 

[SiriusB]

117!

Buy yourself a small camping kettle, can make yourself tea on demand

SiriusB