Temperature of NVIDIA GeForce 210 contantly at 66-68 degree C with no gaming.

[ankitnagpal]

I have today bought core i5 4440 processor, Gigabyte B85M-D3H motherboard, 8 GB (2X4) 1600 MHz RAM, 120 GB SSD Hard disk (C Drive), 500 GB Hard Disk, a Wi-Fi card and NVIDIA GeForce 210 graphics card.

I purchased this graphic card to play real time strategy games which are usually low-spec. But my graphics card remains at 66-68 degree C during normal run of computer with no game running. And reaches up to 70 when a game is running. Is it normal? One more issue is that I tried Plants vs Zombies and it pixel-ates on 3D acceleration setting as ON. However, World of Warkraft 3 ran fine at high settings. I have installed latest Nvidia drivers.

Is everything (temperature and pixels) fine with my GPU?

Other temperature:
Intel Core i5 4440 @ 3.10GHz 37 °C
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B85M-D3H (SOCKET 0) 28 °C
111GB KINGSTON SUV100S37A120G (SSD) 36 °C
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 (SATA) 42 °C
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 210 (ZOTAC International) 67 °C

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... your card will be working it's hardest, just with Windows and Youtube, it is not a 3D GPU of modern technology, Most GPU's with air cooling reach above 70 with any 3D game.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+210
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

 

[ankitnagpal]

Hello... your card will be working it's hardest, just with Windows and Youtube, it is not a 3D GPU of modern technology, Most GPU's with air cooling reach above 70 with any 3D game.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+210
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

I was wondering if my system is better off without this GPU because my powerful CPU seems not bothered at all if any game is running and my malnourished GPU seems to be doing all the hard work. I bought it to get better game play at low-spec strategy games. Please share your opinion. I will throw it in garbage bin if it is causing any bottleneck.

I mean, if there is a GPU installed in the system then does CPU and its motherboard not take any work of processing a game (texture, graphics etc.) and gives all work to GPU? Because in such case if the GPU is slow then CPU and motherboard's integrated graphics may give better results than that puny GPU?

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... the second number on the card is ranked from lowest performance features of the GPU to the highest, the first number is the series and GPU technolgy being used... if you want Good performance features and moderate price I go with a GTX X60's... a GTX 460 1gb is a great starting place for a used NVIDIA GPU on Ebay, New I would go with a GTX670 or GTX 760... yes you have a 3D bottle neck with that card.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Intel+HD+4600 ... yes, the CPU/GPU is faster/better than your Geforce 210.

 

[ankitnagpal]

Hello... the second number on the card is ranked from lowest performance features of the GPU to the highest, the first number is the series and GPU technolgy being used... if you want Good performance features and moderate price I go with a GTX X60's... a GTX 460 1gb is a great starting place for a used NVIDIA GPU on Ebay, New I would go with a GTX670 or GTX 760... yes you have a 3D bottle neck with that card.

Just checked GTX 760 at: http://www.flipkart.com/zotac-nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-amp-2-gb-graphics-card/p/itmdmtcnb5gxze6a

My whole CPU config is cheaper than this GPU. Better not to play games at all.

 

[chimera201]

Yes that GPU is garbage. Throw it. U will be better off with processor graphics

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... a used GTX 460 1gb is under $80 on EBAY... rock solid performance for the money.

 

[ankitnagpal]

Hello... a used GTX 460 1gb is under $80 on EBAY... rock solid performance for the money.

Thanks, I will check now.

 

[PG Hari]

Hello... your card will be working it's hardest, just with Windows and Youtube, it is not a 3D GPU of modern technology, Most GPU's with air cooling reach above 70 with any 3D game.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+210
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

I was wondering if my system is better off without this GPU because my powerful CPU seems not bothered at all if any game is running and my malnourished GPU seems to be doing all the hard work. I bought it to get better game play at low-spec strategy games. Please share your opinion. I will throw it in garbage bin if it is causing any bottleneck.

I mean, if there is a GPU installed in the system then does CPU and its motherboard not take any work of processing a game (texture, graphics etc.) and gives all work to GPU? Because in such case if the GPU is slow then CPU and motherboard's integrated graphics may give better results than that puny GPU?

 

[PG Hari]

I have today bought core i5 4440 processor, Gigabyte B85M-D3H motherboard, 8 GB (2X4) 1600 MHz RAM, 120 GB SSD Hard disk (C Drive), 500 GB Hard Disk, a Wi-Fi card and NVIDIA GeForce 210 graphics card.

I purchased this graphic card to play real time strategy games which are usually low-spec. But my graphics card remains at 66-68 degree C during normal run of computer with no game running. And reaches up to 70 when a game is running. Is it normal? One more issue is that I tried Plants vs Zombies and it pixel-ates on 3D acceleration setting as ON. However, World of Warkraft 3 ran fine at high settings. I have installed latest Nvidia drivers.

Is everything (temperature and pixels) fine with my GPU?

Other temperature:
Intel Core i5 4440 @ 3.10GHz 37 °C
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B85M-D3H (SOCKET 0) 28 °C
111GB KINGSTON SUV100S37A120G (SSD) 36 °C
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 (SATA) 42 °C
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 210 (ZOTAC International) 67 °C

 

[PG Hari]

Hae man....im also using geforce 210 1GB DDR3 GPU... nd this GPU sucks... its better u change to GTX or somthing like that....i have AMD FX 8120 3.1Ghz...4 gb ddr3 ram Asus M5A97 mother board.....with dis config d GPU is a dead weight...u can run all kinds of rendering software... in my experience... you can play all of the games in this GPU...which is those games that run with DIRECTX 10 or below... Forsa 210 supports till DirectX10...but u should play in minimum settings....oh.. and u cannot play Call OF Duty: Ghosts...its Dx 11 req....
Games i run In forsa 210 1GB ddr3

Hitman(Full Series) including Absolution... COD except Ghosts... Battlefeild(full series)... Sleeping Dogs...Assassins Creed(full series)...GTA except 5....Halo...Skyrim... like that...

and multi player of COD MW MW3

Dont worry coz of Forsa 210.... u can run games.... but have to compromise on quality....

 

[Svipper Svips]

Does it have passive cooling? Passive cooling needs very well ventilated systems. If it is, you should check you case position and ventilation. Add some cooler if there is room for those, and place you case on position were air can move freely, lower if possible, too. No dust?

PS: To all "This gpu is crap, buy new" guys, please, STFU! He didn't ask that. Problem with GF210 is, that some peoples are starting to point out crapiness of card instead of helping.