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gfx card running hot

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my gtx 260 has been running this hot if not hotter for the past days, i can remember it being hotter than this before, this is at idle, doing nothing but sitting on desktop and browsing the web. so no games that would heat it up. just wanted to know if anyone could share some insight into what might be getting so high. and if my gfx card is about to go bye bye :(

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Try taking it out and giving it a bit of a clean, same with your case fans. Also its starting to heat up a bit more theese days which will add to component temps.
 
Yeah you'd be amazed what a couple degrees in ambient temps can do to your card temps. I noticed last night my max temp was 72C just playing BC2, whereas previously the only thing that got it to 69C was crysis. Was just a bit warm in my room. But a good clean will sort things out for your idle temps. Make sure all those dust filters on your case are clean too.
 
Maybe your card isn't switching into 2D mode for some reason. Having it at 3D clocks and voltage will increase the heat it produces. Maybe an application is forcing it to stay in 3D or maybe something else is causing it.
 
I finally got the radiator in my room fixed today, (took me over 18 months to sort that out). Seen a rise of 6c on my gpu's at idle, now at 38c each, and a 4-5c rise in cpu temps.
 
Maybe your card isn't switching into 2D mode for some reason. Having it at 3D clocks and voltage will increase the heat it produces. Maybe an application is forcing it to stay in 3D or maybe something else is causing it.

This is also something you should look into, just open afterburner and see what clocks it's running at while idle on the desktop.
 
This is also something you should look into, just open afterburner and see what clocks it's running at while idle on the desktop.

Ive looked into and the gtx 260 namely the xfx don downclock to 2d they will always stay at 3d clocks, and yippy for me i have a xfx card. so it seems there is nothing i can do, I gave it a good clean and the case fan blowing air onto it and its lowered it a tad bit.
 
so it seems there is nothing i can do

I find that hard to believe. You are also wasting electricity by the bucket load.

There are a few people who have reported the issue of course but it's unlikely that the XFX cards are lagued with this fault. Usually it's a driver issue if cards don't downclock as expected. The 2D clocks will be specified in your cards BIOS and the driver should use whichever is appropriate.

I had stupid applications bumping my old 4890 up to 3D clocks, things like Outlook, MS Word and Youtube videos and even Flash video. The Powerply in my 6950 isn't so mental, apart from dual screen use anyway.
 
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