Okay so I'm desparate. My HD4870 is running at almost 70 degrees idle and has reached 98 celsius on load. I've upped the stock fan speeds and it doens't improve much.
My hard drive has been constantly running since I've been downloading over night and it was at 54celsius.
I decided to open up the side of the case and use a room fan to blow into the case. I set it real close to the computer and put it on high. Since then my hard drive temperature dropped from 54c to 37c.
My GPU temp dropped from 70c idle to 56c idle. It seems to still be running hot when compared to other people's 4870's. I'm now convinced that the graphics card is a faulty card since I have a big giant freaken house fan blowing right at it and it still idles at 56c.
Does anyone else do this for cooling? Is it safe in the long run? I know about the dust problem. I"ll be buying some canned air to clean out the motherboard and stuff. Is this an efficient way to cool a computer?
My hard drive has been constantly running since I've been downloading over night and it was at 54celsius.
I decided to open up the side of the case and use a room fan to blow into the case. I set it real close to the computer and put it on high. Since then my hard drive temperature dropped from 54c to 37c.
My GPU temp dropped from 70c idle to 56c idle. It seems to still be running hot when compared to other people's 4870's. I'm now convinced that the graphics card is a faulty card since I have a big giant freaken house fan blowing right at it and it still idles at 56c.
Does anyone else do this for cooling? Is it safe in the long run? I know about the dust problem. I"ll be buying some canned air to clean out the motherboard and stuff. Is this an efficient way to cool a computer?