Safe temp for a 5900

[caseman]

Well, like an idiot, after many hours of looking for a mini-app to display my asus 5900 ulta's temp, I discover that a monitor is built right into the drivers. That's time I'll never get back.

So now that I can see, what is a safe temp? Same as a CPU, or does the GPU have different standards?

 

[error_911]

i once called chaintech to ask the techys that same question, heh..

gpu's run within approximately the same temperature range as cpus, though like any electrical circuit, the cooler the better.

<b>don't hold strong opinions about things you don't understand</b>

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[caseman]

Well thats not good.. my card says it's running at 64C.

 

[error_911]

64*C under load or stock? vdeo cards generally do run HOT because of shitty heatsinks and fans (they wanna keep them quiet, and there's the lifecycle of the card they wanna shorten too remember, heh). Anyways, replacing the heatsink or even adding a side-mount fan would drastically help those temps.

<b>don't hold strong opinions about things you don't understand</b>

...<i><b><A HREF="http://home.graffiti.net/error_911:graffiti.net/specs.html" target="_new">system specs</A></b></i>

 

[caseman]

The card does have heat sinks right now. A huge copper plate on the back side (covers just about the whole card) and a plastic cover on the front hiding a copper sink with two smaller fans embedded in it. All in all I'd says Asus did a pretty good job with their take on the 5900. Scottchen gave me some ideas to change the sinks, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I also have a side case fan blowing directly onto the card. I'm not sure how much I believe the monitor. When I touch the copper sink on the back, it's warm but not 64c warm. Nor does it really change when I fire up halo or C&C. It goes up by 2c at most.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by caseman on 11/23/03 10:17 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[scottchen]

Chaintech's heatsink is similar with Asus' it's a little worse because it has a bit of airflow problem. Also it uses Thermal pad, if you really feel like making a maximum of 5C differece, you could remove the heatsink get rid of the pad and get some Arctic Ceramique on it.

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[caseman]

I'll check to see if the Asus uses a pad. I have quite a bit of ceramique left over, so if so I'll try that.

Thanks for an other good idea.