BFG 7800 GTX reaches 100*celsius

[t33lo]

Hello, I my BFG 7800gtx is getting hot, really hot. Like 5 months ago, i removed the stock heatsink and got rid of the memory chip pads and replaced it with arctic silver 5. My card was fairly cool up until like a few weeks ago. WHen I max out the card to its limits, it reaches 100* celsius in games. That is very bad, this I know. I'm thinking about getting the Arctic Cooling heat sink and fan for the card. What do you think I should do? The reason why i replaced the memory chip pads with as5 was becuase i removed the stock heat sink in order to put on an arctic cooling heat sink fan, but little did I know that the one i got was incompatible. When I went to put the stock heat sink fan back on, the pads were ripped up and in bad shape so i replaced them with as5.

it idles around 61 degrees too. I know thats pretty high for an idle. My computer case is pretty cool too with the proc at 30 and the PWMIC at 40.

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Hey man, you need to rip that cooler back off and re-mount it, you might have used too much/too little AS5. Make sure the cooler is fitting squarely against the GPU core, tighten screws down oposite of eachother, not in circular rotation. You'll get it fixed.

 

[mad_fitzy]

well if u leave it at 100*c u can cook yourself some food while playing games and the harder u play the faster it cooks. but seriously damn. did u say u were gonna try some aftermarket ram sinks

 

[t33lo]

yeah i could toss some water on that thing and make some mac n' cheese. I think I'm going to to go with arctic cooling, but in the mean time, I'm going to refit my stock hsf. I dunno why it was all cool for like 5 months, then like 3 weeks ago, just crap out temps. Weird... But yeah I don't want to melt anything so I have to take care of that shit asap.

 

[t33lo]

Well I reseated everything and applied the AS5 again. It definitley needed it seeing as the AS5 was flaky becuase it pretty much got burnt by the intense heat (or at least i think it did). It now idles at round 38*c and under heavy game play gets to about 73-75. I have it on manual over clock too. I think I'm going to get an Arctic cooling NV silencer or wahtever in the future, but for now, I just want to make sure my card isn't going to melt. Thanks for the help!