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cooling 8800 gts

bigfred

bigfred

bigfred

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is there a cooling system i can get get for my 8800 gts? at the minute it just has the stock fan on it, but it is getting pretty hot... as i sit here on the net i am getting 61 degrees C. it alarms me at 70 degrees C, which it did today whilst playing Silent Hunter 4, on max settings...

the board is not overclocked at all. what is a safe temp to be getting whilst gaming..

thanks a lot..
 
bigfred said:
is there a cooling system i can get get for my 8800 gts? at the minute it just has the stock fan on it, but it is getting pretty hot... as i sit here on the net i am getting 61 degrees C. it alarms me at 70 degrees C, which it did today whilst playing Silent Hunter 4, on max settings...

the board is not overclocked at all. what is a safe temp to be getting whilst gaming..

thanks a lot..
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Thats normal, no need to worry about it.
 
The HR03 Plus will fit the GTS if you are prepared to hack of a small corner on the HSI chipset heatsink, should take no more than 10min with a dremel if you are prepared to do it.

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That or you ll have to wait for Thermalright to bring out the GTS HSI heatsink.

Performance wise its a great cool knocking almost 30C off the load temp. See..

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17711305
 
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Those temps are fine, itll even overclock with the stock hsf...

Changing the hsf will just void yir warranty.

If its bothering you that much, which it shouldn't, get Riva Tuner and set the fan speed for the gfx card up to 100%. Stock fan speed is only 60%.
 
No one told you to throw all the old HSF away, if your gfx card dies just replace the aftermarket one back with the stock one and its good to go back for RMA. Ive done it before myself, its hard for them to prove that you have taken the heatsink off in the first place as it has no seals to be broken or stickers over screws etc.

Frankly with summer around the corner and the card loading at near 80C in these 'cooler' days, I hate to see what my GTX temps will be like when ambient temps are 7-10C hotter and no air conditioning. I know these cards can handle temps of excess 100C but such high temperature stills bothers me.
 
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mcc49 said:
No one told you to throw all the old HSF away, if your gfx card dies just replace the aftermarket one back with the stock one and its good to go back for RMA. Ive done it before myself, its hard for them to prove that you have taken the heatsink off in the first place as it has no seals to be broken or stickers over screws etc.

Frankly with summer around the corner and the card loading at near 80C in these 'cooler' days, I hate to see what my GTX temps will be like when ambient temps are 7-10C hotter and no air conditioning. I know these cards can handle temps of excess 100C but such high temperature stills bothers me.
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I'm sure the stock cooler can handle it, it's meant to be a fairly decent stock cooler, which makes a change.

At the moment, I think there's only the thermalright, but there's a funky arctic cooling version coming out with the same kind of design, where you can attach your own fans.
 
mcc49 said:
Frankly with summer around the corner and the card loading at near 80C in these 'cooler' days, I hate to see what my GTX temps will be like when ambient temps are 7-10C hotter and no air conditioning. I know these cards can handle temps of excess 100C but such high temperature stills bothers me.
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The fan speeds up as the card gets hotter....So it should still stay around the 80c to 90c area..

Even my 8800gtx stays around the 80c mark underload even in my small shuttle case..

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'Cause, usually when you have higher temperatures the images the card can produce, the performance of the card will go down.

The temperature affects the card's performance.
 
Don't forget that while the card may be able to handle the higher temps, you're also dumping all that extra heat into your case, which can increase temps of your cpu, mobo etc. You should definitely have good case cooling with one of these cards :eek:

I am so tempted by the HR-03 PLUS - it really drops those temps, between 20 and 30 degrees in some cases :D
 
tem07 said:
'Cause, usually when you have higher temperatures the images the card can produce, the performance of the card will go down.

The temperature affects the card's performance.
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No I'm not asking the question LOL
I know the answer


If a card is within its threshold then its fine.

Mines clocked to 650/2000 an its fine temp wise.There is loads of headroom on these cards and the cooler more than does its job.

Changing the cooling has no other reason than wanting to tinker and void the warranty. Or adding watercooling.
 
spb251272 said:
Don't forget that while the card may be able to handle the higher temps, you're also dumping all that extra heat into your case, which can increase temps of your cpu, mobo etc. You should definitely have good case cooling with one of these cards :eek:
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No, the heat from the 8800 on a stock cooler is taken outside the case.
 
melbourne720 said:
No, the heat from the 8800 on a stock cooler is taken outside the case.
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Trust me, a lot still goes into the case, and the fact that the actual card is that hot increases the case temp.
 
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