Hot to Very Hot ?

[A Thiel]

Hi, How hot should a 9700 pro run at. I have a temp probe under the cooling
fan right at the center of where the chip is, It's running at 48 deg C in
standby, 59 deg C in the desktop and 72 deg C+ in 3D games. Are these temps
to high ?

Thanks for any reply's....

 

[Athura]

My Tyan 9700pro board is around 50deg C idle and up to 60deg C during
gaming

stock coling on it, no overclocking, and it has onboard hardware monitoring

 

[A Thiel]

What is a good alternative cooler for this card ?
I was thinking about using a P2 slot 1 heatsink and fan.

 

[Dodgy]

Normal for the 9700 Pro.

Too high for long-term reliability. At 72deg C measured, the GPU chip
is probably running at over 80 degreesC, considering that you are
measuring immediately under the fan and not on the chip itself.

As a comparison, Intel P4 CPU are spec'd for ~70deg C maximium
chip-temp. The circuit complexity, process-technology, estimated
dissipation for the 9700, 9800 GPUs are very similar to a 2.6GHz P4.

Ati seems to care little about reliability. They publish no thermal
specs, nor dissipation figures for their parts and provide no built-in
thermal monitoring even on their highest-performance video cards.
(I wonder why ?? )

Or a decent fan in the case of the 8500DV I have! It rattles like a
bugger... I think it will almost be a relief when it finally falls
off... Well for about for about 5 seconds anyway.

D0d6y.

 

[J.Clarke]

On 2 Aug 2003 01:55:04 -0700

I wouldn't touch Thrustmaster/Hercules/Guillemot anymore. The company
is about to close. I used t work for them, about a month ago, they
laid everybody off from North America, and the rest of the world also.
They kept a couple of people to "finish off projects" to be released
and generate that extra cash. There are no testers, no new drivers
will be released for any of the products. Support is hardly any, there
are two people to do support/RMA's for the WHOLE WORLD. They changed
their contact information, try to find it. They make you have to
register the product, then you get the support phone numbers and
support emails addresses, but guess what, it doesn't work, that is
because there is no web team anymore. All in all by sept, Guillemot
will be no more,save yourself alot of headaches

Ex Guillemot/Thrustmaster/Hercules worker

And this is relevant to the operating temperatures of ATI boards
how? Or are you perhaps laboring under the misconception that ATI is
part of T/H/G?

 

[Nick M V Salmon]

And this is relevant to the operating temperatures of ATI boards
how? Or are you perhaps laboring under the misconception that ATI is
part of T/H/G?

I winced when I read this - Hercules make (made ?) ATI based VidCards & I
have TWO Hercules 8500s, an AIW 8500DV & an 8500LE FDX. :-(((

Luckily, they both work fine so warranty shouldn't be an issue (cross
fingers.) & ATI's own drivers seem to work with them both...

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...

 

[patrickp]

On 2 Aug 2003 01:55:04 -0700


And this is relevant to the operating temperatures of ATI boards
how? Or are you perhaps laboring under the misconception that ATI is
part of T/H/G?

I agree with your comment, John, but rather than criticising this person, I
think it could be important to encourage them to post this as a new thread -
if true, it's important that ATi users, particularly those thinking of
purchasing cards, should know this. ;-)

patrickp