This is the temp reported by NVMonitor right after playing Mount and Blade at 1600x1200. Just the stock fan on an eVGA 8800GT Superclocked edition. Should I try to get that down some?
No, that’s perfectly normal. Nvidia desktop cards usually can go into the 80s or 90s without any trouble.
Hah. I didn’t even think nvidia fans came ON until 70C.
I have a BFG 512mb 8800GT OC, and it will hit between 70 and 80 deg during gaming. I use RivaTuner to maintain a fan profile that spins the fan up to 100% on hitting a certain GPU core temp threshold, and back down when the GPU cools. The card has never overheated or glitched during play, so as the others say, it should be normal.
As others mentioned, that’s pretty normal. If it is running to hot it’ll be fairly obvious - graphical corruption and or crashing.
I think they range from around 65 (idle, desktop use (not on Vista!)), to 130 (screaming fans, hold on to your pixels speed) degrees C.
My 18 month old 8800 GTX died a week and a half ago. It was probably from overheating. One of my case fans died overnight one night when I was downloading Kings Bounty. My system had been running hot due to problems with my water cooling before that. After the overnight incident artifacts began appearing even when the card was cool and it got worse from there.
My new GTX 260 runs much cooler than the 8800. 45ish at idle whereas the 8800 was 60ish.
On a positive note the installation of the 260 was easy despite its huge size due to the similiar nature of the footprint of both cards.
how is the noise of the 260?
[B]Tom’s Nvidia GeForce GTX 260/280 Review[/B]
The noise reported for the 260 in the above review is high but I honestly never notice my GTX 260’s fans over the noise of my case fans(which are way too loud).
My current system is by far the loudest system I have ever had. I am definitely going to design my next system by evaluating the noise level of each component.