Help with G.P.U temp's!

Freddie589 · 24 Oct 2010 at 17:23

i have a HIS 5830 turbo and a duel moniter setup, playing COD MW2 my temps do not go over 66 degrees and they only get over 64 when play time goes over 20mins, but when i play HL2 and TF2 the temps hit 70 degrees after five minutes of playtime.
other usefull info:
i have a 700D
the card is in the bottom PCI-E slot
i have one 15" compaq moniter and one 22 moniter
all settings on all games are on full and very high
i use GPU-Z to moniter temps
so my question is:
is running games at these temps for over an hour dangerous and how can i prevent this and get the temps into 70's?

thanks all

stulid · 24 Oct 2010 at 17:28

looks normal.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/xfx-radeon-hd5830_4.html#sect0

shows a 5830 reaching 76 degrees

Cookeh · 24 Oct 2010 at 17:39

Yeah, as far as cards go, the 5830 isnt the coolest.
Wouldnt be too worried.

Thing that baffles me is that the temps are higher on less gpu intensive games? :confused:

RJC · 24 Oct 2010 at 18:10

Temps look ok.

Freddie589 · 24 Oct 2010 at 20:11

thanks guys !

mame · 24 Oct 2010 at 20:16

I'm going to guess that you're not using v-sync and the older games are running at quite high frame-rates and making the card hotter. I couldn't even guess what HL2 runs at on a modern card without v-sync. Could easily be 200-300 FPS.