Fermi 480 operating temps

[el Kuarlos]

I don't get it- all reviews which clearly are running new, dust free cards in high end well cooled cases are seeing temperatures that run within 10 degrees c of the cards 'maximum' operating temperatures- 92-96 under full load- max rating 105.

Non reviewers cannot be expected to have cooling that is as good, now as I see it fermi wasn't as good as nvidia's theory predicted it would be, for whatever reasons, so they had to clock it hard, par with 5870 or under just wasn't an option, but leaving a 10 degree margin??

Surely that is cutting it irresponsibly fine?

 

[titaniumx3]

Don't worry. By the time your card is in any danger of overheating, you'll be more worried about your hearing.

Seriously though, I wouldn't be worried, they must have tested this quite extensively and obviously the loud fan is a consequence of this.

 

[el Kuarlos]

Thing which concerns me (not that I am getting one right now) is that that heatsink and fan can be quite aptly described as epic, and yet they only just seem to do the required job- taking the 5000 series as an example, there just doesn't seem to be anything like the margin for error.

Plus even maintaining those temps there is clearly a lot more air going through the 480- imagine what that will do to ambient in a lower end case!- I know most will go out the back, but having used a 9800 which is nothing like as hot, I really wouldn't want to stick one of those in my PC.

 

[mmj_uk]

The cards come with a 3 year warranty so at the end of the day if it's an inherent problem NVidia will be the ones footing the bill.

If they shipped with only 1 year then I would be worried.

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

The cards come with a 3 year warranty so at the end of the day if it's an inherent problem NVidia will be the ones footing the bill.

If they shipped with only 1 year then I would be worried.

exactly, 3 years is pretty decent, i certainly won't even have the card that long

 

[Rroff]

nVidia fan profiles have always been a bit naff - they tend to be very lax until it almost hits the t critical, then the fan kicks in super fast - and get very noisey. So the difference is - temps will still be the same in a less ventillated case (unless its really poor) but there will be a lot more noise and a lot more variation in the temperatures as they spike high, fan kicks in, eventually drops below threshold, fan slacks off, spike high, repeat.

 

[Andric]

thought nvidia are only doing 1 year, partners are adding the extra years

 

[Drake22]

hell yea