Nvidia 8800gt temps

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paulcrill

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Hi all

I have the Nividia 8800gt and I'm worried about teh temps. Admittedly, it's been pretty hot in Durbs lately, but my idle temp right now at 9 in the morning is 65 and my computer actually crashed last night playing the new Call of Duty. When it rebooted, the temp was 105. I've done the Rivatuner tweak where it regulates the tem and the fan is on 100 most of the time. (I've set it to go up to 100 % when teh temp reaches 60.)

Just wondering if that is normal.
 
I had one and the it ran mid 50's idle and get up to 80's when playing games. I think the humidity might push it up a bit more. Make sure you have fans pulling hot air out of your case.
 
Mine idles at about 69C at 50% fan speed, doesn't reach more than 98C. Does it still overheat at 100% fan speed?
 
yeah that is pretty hot. You might need to look at some aftermarket cooling. Try reseating it with some proper grease then tweaking the fan in Rivatuner.
 
I've had my 8800GT for about a year now. Still the one with the puny little fan.

My highest idle temp is around 63C at 29% speed. When I game I push it up to 40%, and the highest temp I've seen is 91C and that was just momentary.
 
It's the first time it's crashed. I also leave my case open so there's more air flow. Temp is currently 67 and I'm not doing anything. Sigh. Looks like I will have to get a different cooler. Any suggestions?
 
Used to have similar temps on my 8800gt, stuck a zalman VF900 on it, idles 45 and barely reaches 50. Was definitely a good buy :)
 
Does the zalman just fit over the existing fan? Just wondering how difficult it is to assemble.
 
I was testing an overclock (650/1000 vs 600/900) on my 8800GT last night and got an idle temp of 64.
 
Right. I got my Zalman cooler today and installed it. It's quite hot here in durbs and current temp of gfx is 37 as opposed to 67 with the default cooler. Quite a big difference. Just one thing. The fan is still under the instructions from Rivatuner that I programmed for the old fan. (Start up at 60 % of fan speed then increase in increments as temp increases.) Do I even need a rivatuner profile now or should i just set it to auto?
 
You should experiment, but there's no harm in keeping your rivatuner profile. Glad to see it helped. Was it the vf900?
 
The_Techie said:
Mine idles at about 69C at 50% fan speed, doesn't reach more than 98C. Does it still overheat at 100% fan speed?
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unbelievable - they said the 4870x2 gets hot/noisy?

my 4870x2 has never been above 82C, ever, and i have actually never really heard the fan go over 35% fanspeed ? it's so quiet:confused:

it sounds like a subaru impreza's turbo's if i manually adjust it to 100% fan speed though, lol

edit: although, my system does have 8 fans in total, 2 of which are 120mm and a zalman as well...
 
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