90 Celcius and beyond ?!? Nvidia graphics

SmurfMagic

Hello, I am owner of an Nvidia 8500GT graphics card. It has been clocked to 500MHz and runs at 90 degrees Celcius when idle and quite a bit hotter when running. I have measured it at 120 degrees celcius which is 248 degrees fahrenheit.

That seems a bit toasty. I placed a small fan near the heatsink to try and cool it down a bit but temperatures have not changed much. The fan that is built into the heatsink seems to operate okay as well. I have even removed the heatsink and put some artic silver compound between it and the die and the temperature droped by a mere 1 degree.

reetin

If i were you i would buy another card, that is way too hot to do anything without your card frying, and besides an 8500 is really bad, you could have got a 7900 and get better FPS in games, or just went and bought an 8800 because they are awesome sexyness

Darkholme

Hi fire hazard, how are you? That is way, *way* too hot. You could cook dinner on that thing. Time to shut your PC down and buy a new GPU...

ZDPhoenix

Definitely get a new card immediately. That cannot be a good thing.

miagisan

at load your card should never reach more than 50C...most systems shut down around 70C. 90C when idle is almost pure death for the card

xDarc

Nvidia does have some defective cards out there that run too hot.  The 8000 series, and even there new GTX200's, have some of the single biggest cpu die's ever made.  They require lots of power and produce lots of heat.  I'd try and hit up the warranty if there is one.  Those temps are too high.

Otherwise I recommend the MSI NX8800GT.  They are below $200 and come with after-market cooling installed.  Mine idles between 34-37C with ambient air around 70F.

Precusor

Originally posted by miagisan


at load your card should never reach more than 50C...most systems shut down around 70C. 90C when idle is almost pure death for the card

 

Heavy load temp on the 8xxxx are around 60 to 70c..

SmurfMagic

I cannot afford a new video card right now. I took off cover and put a 12 volt blower fan with an air duct directly on the heat sink and idle temps are now 85 degrees celcius.

Im using HW Monitor by CPUID. Its a free program.

When I play games the temps are going 115 degrees without the cover and blower operating so maybe the card will live !

I wonder why its so hot ? the other day I smelled buring electronics coming from the computer but its still working.

 

Darkholme

Well the good news is that if your overheating GPU burns your place down the insurance should cover a new GPU... Seriously, there's got to be a way you can get something cheap to see you through until you can get something better.