[Alf]

Just got a 6800 GT as you all heard and contiune to hear about until i get over it
for me its 65C idle and 71+C under load (gaming)
Is this bad? cause the 71C worries me a bit.

[Adywebb]

I'm not an expert on these things Alf - but 71C seems OK to me, just nicely warmed up.

[muckshifter]

Originally Posted by Alf

Just got a 6800 GT as you all heard and contiune to hear about until i get over it
for me its 65C idle and 71+C under load (gaming)
Is this bad? cause the 71C worries me a bit.

Anything that runs and does not 'crash' is running fine.

[Reefsmoka]

GPU's always run hot with stock coolers, but the "dangerously overheating temp" on a 6800GT is 120c :/ . Seems abit high for me. My 6800GT idles at 60c and under load reachs 72c. Which isnt a real big increase really. I have fitted a VGA silencer on mine though, and im telling ya what, its flamming massive and heavy! Makes the standard 9800pro VGA silencer look like a northbridge fan :|. But its whisper quiet .

[psd99]

Originally Posted by muckshifter

Anything that runs and does not 'crash' is running fine.

very well described there!

[Cache-man]

That seems a perfectly acceptable temp for a performance graphics card. You have no need to be worried - if it does concern you slightly though, you could always try water cooling it!

[Alf]

Its still a little cool down here in N.M, im kinda worried what the temps might be in the Summer...

[CSUnited14]

Originally Posted by Alf

Its still a little cool down here in N.M, im kinda worried what the temps might be in the Summer...

Buy a air conditioner for behind the comp :-X lol. my old systems cpu 48c case temp 34c this is all stock no case fans or nothing lol ive got it to like 80c ahhahaha hunk of crap Blooop!

[Alf]

I probly by a coolermasters case that has a 80mm fan blowing onto my Video card....
80!? isnt that the temp when things start frying ?

[CSUnited14]

Prob this comp im on is junk.... Made by compaq cost me about 1,500.00 us the model is 5330us it was good when it came out but ive put new stuff in there making it hot like audigy 2zs radeon 9200 <--- once good lol but my new comp is gonna fly so i dont care what this thing does it was freezing for the longest time when i played games found out it was mt cpu fan had dust in there which was over heating when i played 3d games. someone had the same problem so thats how i found out that problem on a forum. But for now all seems well temps dont get that high anymore it got to 80c i dont know why maybe bad airflow :-X but its stable now and i through a thermaltake fan in there to exhaust more heat out.
The specs are ~~
intel p4 1.7ghz
radeon 9200 agp 4x/8x
audigy 2 zs
80gig hd hitachi
512ram 133mhz sdram
and some compaq mobo dunno what kind

So i hope new comp will be nice what do u think?!?!