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GTX480 Heat

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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I've got a VF3000F on my graphic card and according to the GPU temperatures it does a really good job, it mostly sits at around 65-70°C in game with the fan on minimum. Nice & quiet.

However in some games that make the graphic card hotter than normal (e.g. L4D2, Legend of Grimrock) the top of the card is too hot to touch :S. I even have a 120mm fan on the side of the case blowing air directly onto the card.

Is this normal for a GTX480? Is it anything to worry about?

Thanks.
 
I second that thought. I had two 470's and they were hot. I hear the 480's were hotter than that. They are renowned for being hot and a little noisy, but good value for money and decent performers.
 
Its fine really mine hits 90c in battlefield 3 and thats with the stock fan on auto and a overclock too :o .

Its nothing to worry about if it was hitting its maximum GPU thermal threshold of 105c then i would worry :)
 
peahead said:
Its fine really mine hits 90c in battlefield 3 and thats with the stock fan on auto and a overclock too :o .

Its nothing to worry about if it was hitting its maximum GPU thermal threshold of 105c then i would worry :)
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Use an FPS limiter, limit to 60 FPS and watch your temps drop a good 20c.;)
 
Buckster said:
yeah mine regularly in games (especially Trine 2 - lol) - gets to 90 and above

non issue
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That game is a GPU killer ! I don't quite know how it manages it, but it used to make my 280 spaz and hit around 97c even with the fan on max lol.
 
The temps it's reporting hardly touch 80°C because the cooler I've got on there is excellent. In fact it sits at around 66 in most games I play (D3, Kingdom of Amalur). I'm more worried about the top of the card (or bottom? the part where the fan isn't :p). Is it normal for it to be untouchable?
 
Just don't touch the heat pipes on the stock cooler.

They are called heat pipes for a reason, and one of them now has some of my skin stuck to it :D
 
480's are meant to be punished and to run hot, mine hits around 79c during BF3 with 825core 2004 memory, not really hot tbh that's with stock cooler and no fan profiles or anything...
 
So it's normal for the top of the card to get extremely hot then? As in the part that doesn't have any fans/heatsinks/cores on it?

The temps are perfectly cool with the VF3000F on. Was just a bit worried about how hot the top of the card gets really.

Thanks for all replies so far, at least in terms of core temps it's well off being too hot! :)
 
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Craig321 said:
So it's normal for the top of the card to get extremely hot then? As in the part that doesn't have any fans/heatsinks/cores on it?

The temps are perfectly cool with the VF3000F on. Was just a bit worried about how hot the top of the card gets really.

Thanks for all replies so far, at least in terms of core temps it's well off being too hot! :)
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As everyone sais they can handle them temps just fine my 480`s also reach 90+ in bf3 max out @ 1080p .

Only draw back is even thou reference cooler extracts heat to rear , case temps also increases , making everything else hot specially if 2 of them sandwich together.
I had to move mine to the 3rd pci ex slots to bring idle temps down a bit but losing from 16x to 8x
 
Craig321 said:
So it's normal for the top of the card to get extremely hot then? As in the part that doesn't have any fans/heatsinks/cores on it?

The temps are perfectly cool with the VF3000F on. Was just a bit worried about how hot the top of the card gets really.

Thanks for all replies so far, at least in terms of core temps it's well off being too hot! :)
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Yes it is perfectly normal mate. The GTX 480 comes with a huge warning label (bright yellow so you can't miss it) telling you not to touch the card for a good bit after you shut the system down.

What doesn't help is the fact that most of the cooler is solid alu, including the first half of the cooler assembly.

But any recent GPU, even the slow ones, get hot.


ilovetechno said:
As everyone sais they can handle them temps just fine my 480`s also reach 90+ in bf3 max out @ 1080p .

Only draw back is even thou reference cooler extracts heat to rear , case temps also increases , making everything else hot specially if 2 of them sandwich together.
I had to move mine to the 3rd pci ex slots to bring idle temps down a bit but losing from 16x to 8x
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I would be surprised, nay, amazed if you lost any performance at all. I used to run my 5770 CF in an 8x8x config and it was 3% slower than dual 16x.

No card has managed to max out the bandwidth on a PCIE lane yet. Making 3.0 a pointless indulgence right now.

Good case cooling and a ruddy good psu are a must for SLI 480.
 
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