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... when it hits 100c
So, I have, along with a few other forum members, recently upgraded me video card to a nice new Asus nVIDIA 3D GeForce GTX 560 Direct CU II Graphics Card OCed, BG, GT, IT and whatever go-faster-monograms they care to come up with on the end.
The main reason for my upgrade was, my old 9800GT overheating, I knew when it was too hot in the one game I play, LoTRO, (unshelfish plug) as the artifacts and wavy lines told me to, cool it down a bit.
It arrived, on time, next day, that's yesterday, or was it Wednesday?, in the bigest box I've ever seen a GC shipped in ... I thought, this in't gonna fit inside me PC ... it was 3' x 2' x 4" no kidding, and, not very well packed. Good job the GC box itself was, and that was big.
nice box Amazon, sure you not got a bigger one?
Anyway, fitted, no bother, PSU has the correct power connectors (2 x 6 pin) & juice to run the card. Actually forgot I got this cheap 650 PSU in here, think I bought it 'cos the 9800 needed a six-bit molecular nuclear power connector.
Booted up first time, Windows, or nVidia, promptly started "installin" the same drivers I already had, and so had to reboot.
Was pleasantly surprised to actually "see" a little difference in quality of picture ... I have a few thousand pics on the PC that cycle through every 10mins, never see the same one twice in a day.
What I was pleased to see was the temp readout on me 'GPU Observer gadget' was @ 25°C ... I say, that'll do nicely, thank you very much. Couldn't wait to try out in game.
Oh, ouch! 47°C ... what the F lippin eck? that's no better than me 9800 ... actually got to 59°C at one stage, although I didn't get any artifacts or wavy lines I was a bit shocked ... as soon as I went to desktop, alt tabed, the temps dropped PDQ, phew!
That was yesterday, didn't play game for to long, had other things to do ... so, today I did a bit of testing and a bit of Mr Google research on the std temps of a 560GTX ... I have a twin-fan model of the 560GTX, is one reason I chose this one, quieter & cooler, it certainly is quiet.
I was, however, quite concerned to see such a big jump from idle to load ... 20°C is a lot of heat in such a short time ... I have, however, found out that the max working temp for the design specifications are 99°C ... and, according to what I've read, I shouldn't be surprised to see my temps hit 70°C and, still be one of the coolest card on the market this year, according to AnandTech.
One thing more I learned from this morning readings, is, nVidia did it again, revamping an older graphic card is becoming a norm ... the 560 is in effect a 460, rebadged.
Oh, and in-game ... WOW!! ... no, not 'world of wannabees' idiot adults, but a good improvement over the old 9800GT ... before LoTRO loaded, it told me that I had a DX11 graphics card and would I like to use DX11 err, yeah, sure 
the frame rate is especially good, not to mention the water, shadows, flowers, armour, horses, scenery, building, mountains, oh heck, ok, it's all a lot more realistic.
So, how hot is your card?
So, I have, along with a few other forum members, recently upgraded me video card to a nice new Asus nVIDIA 3D GeForce GTX 560 Direct CU II Graphics Card OCed, BG, GT, IT and whatever go-faster-monograms they care to come up with on the end.
The main reason for my upgrade was, my old 9800GT overheating, I knew when it was too hot in the one game I play, LoTRO, (unshelfish plug) as the artifacts and wavy lines told me to, cool it down a bit.
It arrived, on time, next day, that's yesterday, or was it Wednesday?, in the bigest box I've ever seen a GC shipped in ... I thought, this in't gonna fit inside me PC ... it was 3' x 2' x 4" no kidding, and, not very well packed. Good job the GC box itself was, and that was big.
nice box Amazon, sure you not got a bigger one? Anyway, fitted, no bother, PSU has the correct power connectors (2 x 6 pin) & juice to run the card. Actually forgot I got this cheap 650 PSU in here, think I bought it 'cos the 9800 needed a six-bit molecular nuclear power connector.
Booted up first time, Windows, or nVidia, promptly started "installin" the same drivers I already had, and so had to reboot.
Was pleasantly surprised to actually "see" a little difference in quality of picture ... I have a few thousand pics on the PC that cycle through every 10mins, never see the same one twice in a day.
What I was pleased to see was the temp readout on me 'GPU Observer gadget' was @ 25°C ... I say, that'll do nicely, thank you very much. Couldn't wait to try out in game.
Oh, ouch! 47°C ... what the F lippin eck? that's no better than me 9800 ... actually got to 59°C at one stage, although I didn't get any artifacts or wavy lines I was a bit shocked ... as soon as I went to desktop, alt tabed, the temps dropped PDQ, phew!
That was yesterday, didn't play game for to long, had other things to do ... so, today I did a bit of testing and a bit of Mr Google research on the std temps of a 560GTX ... I have a twin-fan model of the 560GTX, is one reason I chose this one, quieter & cooler, it certainly is quiet.
I was, however, quite concerned to see such a big jump from idle to load ... 20°C is a lot of heat in such a short time ... I have, however, found out that the max working temp for the design specifications are 99°C ... and, according to what I've read, I shouldn't be surprised to see my temps hit 70°C and, still be one of the coolest card on the market this year, according to AnandTech.
One thing more I learned from this morning readings, is, nVidia did it again, revamping an older graphic card is becoming a norm ... the 560 is in effect a 460, rebadged.
Oh, and in-game ... WOW!! ... no, not 'world of wannabees' idiot adults, but a good improvement over the old 9800GT ... before LoTRO loaded, it told me that I had a DX11 graphics card and would I like to use DX11
err, yeah, sure the frame rate is especially good, not to mention the water, shadows, flowers, armour, horses, scenery, building, mountains, oh heck, ok, it's all a lot more realistic. So, how hot is your card?
