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Summer Heat

LukeManUK

LukeManUK

LukeManUK

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Whats the hottest your Graphics card has gotten to this summer?

Mines been about 89 degrees on Day of Defeat Source a few days ago.

Edit: Wrong forum, meant to post in Graphics Cards, move please? :p
 
Got a case fan cooling my card atm, it's a tad too far away from the Card so I'm gona attach it to the card properly till my Zalman arrives :cool:

Should be able to cut away 15 degrees when I attach the case fan properly.
 
No difference because about 5 case fans that are usually off (unless I have been playing a game for about 3 hours) have been turned on by the mobo's thermometor to compensate :D
 
Tommy B said:
No difference because about 5 case fans that are usually off (unless I have been playing a game for about 3 hours) have been turned on by the mobo's thermometor to compensate :D
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Sounds cool :eek:
 
TaKeN said:
Strap an ice pack to it TBH :p
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Tried that at a friends house...my mate decided to strap some ice packs to the outside...(he got a deal where he got like 50 ice-packs for some really cheap price)..anyway he strapped the Ice packs to the outside of his machine, and before you know it, the temperature of the CPU and GPU both dropped by 5 Degrees C.

40 mins later after playing UT, we saw water dripping on the ground...which was a good indicator of the heat being generated. So we didn't pay attention to the dripping water and carried on playing.. .

I think the computer lasted only a further 10 mins before making the biggest pop you can ever hear... we opened the comp to find the PSU fried and the mobo had a sharp black mark on it.. (we tested all components and found that the GPU + CPU only survived lol).

The cause of the big pop was due to moisture build-up on the inside of the casing which dripped into the PSU and that caused the computer to die... sigh..at least my mates comp wasn't expensive so he wasn't too angry + he needed an excuse to upgrade anyway :D Fortunately for me, it's definately a life lesson...never attach ice packs to your computer!!!!!
 
mines been up to low 70's playing CS:S most of the time... on a HIS IceQ3 X1900XT - this cooler is very good... the load temps are so much better than my old 7800GTX
 
drop ina bag of dry ice :D :D

my old card sat 52C at load most of the time but with this heat it jumped to 72-78C

6800Ultra (now sold)

Going for an ATi 1900 end of the month
 
Mine mostly runs at 90 to 105ish and at least once the temp broke 115c at which point the throttling kicked in.

Its 73c right now sitting on the desktop doing nothing.
 
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