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86 degress hot for 7950GTX?

post #1 of 14
2/27/08 at 10:11pm
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Hi,

Not sure if I should be worried. I upgraded my XPS 1710 from a 7900GS to 7950GTX in Dec. Running UT3 and Stalker I have been hitting 86 degrees. All seems to be working well, just not sure if I should be concerned...I have necer maxed over 80 yet.

Regards

indy
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post #2 of 14
2/28/08 at 12:06am
Make sure the temps you are recording match the temps shown by the driver (in the control panel). 86 Max is probably around average.
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post #3 of 14
2/28/08 at 3:13am
I would be slightly more concerned if your running over 90 - I have not yet gone much over 80deg with my 7950gtx but then again I have yet to really have a gaming session.

But I do have bioshock waiting in the wings!!!
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post #4 of 14
2/28/08 at 3:25am
Thats warm enough for me that I would be seriously considering a replacement of the thermal the compund with some nice new AS5, and removing and cleaning out the fans while I was at it.
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post #5 of 14
2/28/08 at 3:44am
Don't be concerned at all. Your video card will automatically reduce its clock frequencies if your temperature gets in the 100C range. If you happen to use drivers that don't have that feature, the worst case scenario is your laptop reboots itself when the video card gets too hot, to prevent damage.
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post #6 of 14
2/28/08 at 3:57am
Sorry Dude have to strongly disagree this with that statement.

If you keep hitting the temps where the GPU throttles down, your giong to eventually cook it.

High Temps Kill electronics, plain and simple

The Cooler you can keep your computer the longer it will last.
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post #7 of 14
2/28/08 at 4:05am
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
Sorry Dude have to strongly disagree this with that statement.

If you keep hitting the temps where the GPU throttles down, your giong to eventually cook it.

High Temps Kill electronics, plain and simple

The Cooler you can keep your computer the longer it will last.
I can attest to that. I never even OC'ed my stock 7800GS, but everyone knows they were infamous for overheating (wish Dell had did a recall on them so I could get a replacement card free, darn defective thing ).

Yes replacement. My card would hit that "heat limit" and cut it's clock and such down long enough for the card to cool down, then it would kick back up and it would heat up again. Rinse and repeat, two years and the card is fried and I'm out $250 for a FX2500m and a 130w PS (not a bad deal, an upgrade I always meant to make, just feel shafted, but ehh that's Dell's support. Freebies to those who don't need it, and the shaft for those who do lol).

Long story short, overheating? Get it fixed.

-Mac
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post #8 of 14
2/28/08 at 10:17am
86 C is by no means overheating. These guys are overreacting. Your card is fine. When the card gets to the 90's you may want to look for alternative cooling.
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post #9 of 14
2/28/08 at 5:35pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks,

Some conflicting advice, and I think I will perhaps clean my fans as I have then on high most of the time so I probably have a dead pigeon in there. Not sure I am brave enough for thermal compound, still recovering from the shock of actually swapping out my 7900GS and the think working.

Regards

Indy
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post #10 of 14
2/28/08 at 5:42pm
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Originally Posted by Maconi View Post
I can attest to that. I never even OC'ed my stock 7800GS, but everyone knows they were infamous for overheating (wish Dell had did a recall on them so I could get a replacement card free, darn defective thing ).

Yes replacement. My card would hit that "heat limit" and cut it's clock and such down long enough for the card to cool down, then it would kick back up and it would heat up again. Rinse and repeat, two years and the card is fried and I'm out $250 for a FX2500m and a 130w PS (not a bad deal, an upgrade I always meant to make, just feel shafted, but ehh that's Dell's support. Freebies to those who don't need it, and the shaft for those who do lol).

Long story short, overheating? Get it fixed.

-Mac
I've had high GPU temperatures for my XPS Gen 2 since I bought it. My 6800 Ultra Go and now my 7800 GTX Go have always hit pretty high temperatures on certain games. I've also had a 6800u and 7800gtx die on me. Given that the 7900 GS Go seems to die just as often, I'm pretty sure all of these video cards just don't last. I don't know about the 7950 though.

I guess my point is that my graphics card will most likely fail within 1.5 years if I use it. If the temperature of the room is too warm, my graphics card throttles all the time in Team Fortress 2 or Crysis. Or in my case, since I wanted relatively new drivers, my laptop simply reboots when it hits the temperature threshold. It doesn't do it right now, but when the weather gets warmer, it will get annoying.

So as you can see, I'm running in the 100C range all the time... it doesn't seem like a big deal to me, but it could only be worse than running at 86C all the time. I have a feeling I'll be talking to Dell a lot this summer when I can't run games longer than 15-20 minutes before overheating. I wish there was a way to fix this, aside from badgering Dell.
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post #11 of 14
3/1/08 at 10:25pm
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Originally Posted by zzpulp View Post
86 C is by no means overheating Your card is fine. When the card gets to the 90's you may want to look for alternative cooling.
I may agree, its toasty no doubt but not enough to send your card to the hospital for 2nd degree burns.
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post #12 of 14
3/2/08 at 8:21pm
The hotter you run the shorter the life

and who knows truly how much life you had in the first place maybe 3 years ? and

like life at 20 years you can run and bounce better then at forty though yuor life migh t be to 80.

basically if you have a complete care warranty that will repalce the card when it goes wrong you have no worries, like they say even none smokers die everyday non overcloked cards die everyday. and 86 should be okay for that game for a year or so at my guess, i hit that ish in that game, hit 92 in bioshock demo. i have cc card retards clocks at i think around 104C core if yuor measuring true yuor18c away from retard *_-.

If you havent got a warranty then a silicon device which a gpu is, looses somthing like 1 year of its working life for every 10 celcius hotter it runs so in that case you wouldnt wanna run it hotter and might wanna ease load if you could happily otherwise its a pretty reasonable temp for that game for most cards.

ED
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post #13 of 14
3/2/08 at 9:18pm
86 degrees is normal. You really shouldn't start worrying till you start hitting 95 degrees and higher.
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post #14 of 14
3/2/08 at 10:00pm
Put some AS5 on it, and clean out the dust if possible on your computer. Otherwise, 8x temps are nothing. You shouldn't be really considered until you hit the 9x's.
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