Temps for 850XT

[SanchoP]

I want to use ATITool to configure fan speeds for my ATI 850XT.

The fan is at about 5% most of the time and then goes up a bit when the temps get higher. What's a safe max temp? 70C? I'm about to replace my stock 775 cooler with a Zalman CNPS7000B AlCu, and continuing my mission for a bit of quietness, I want to stop my gfx from revving up to 100% unless it gets above 60C or so.

Also, does anyone have the Antec SOLO case? It's practically the same thing as the P150... Looks very nice, but I don't know if it's worth the 1k price tag...

 

[The_Techie]

I'd say even 80'C would be safe for that card

 

[SanchoP]

Cool. And I just realized that the P4 cooler is the main source of noise, so the system should be quite a lot quieter with the Zalman cooler.

 

[detritus]

I have an X850XT in another PC, and the highest I've seen it go is just over 80C, and even then the fan did not speed up.
I wish I could say the same about my 8800GT but even that only gets hot in really warm weather.

 

[Napalm]

i know my Previous graphics card. Radeon 9800XT ran at around 75degree's most of the time. Ingame was around 81degree's.

 

[SanchoP]

Well it seems the stock fan and controller are doing their job quite while. I started up Crysis and ran around shooting things and cloaking and stuff and the highest it got was 79C. During some hectic multitasking, with Prime95 and a virus test etc, my P4 630 maxed out at 80C, but this should drastically decrease with the addition of a Zalman cooler.

 

[SanchoP]

And strangely, CPU-Z just reported that my CPU is running at 2.8hGHz, when it's supposed to be 2GHz...