Acceptable Temps

Discussion in 'Overclocking & Cooling' started by max12590, Jul 10, 2005.

  1. max12590

    max12590 Masterful Geek

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    I am playing around with Riva Tuner and thought it would be a good idea to come here before I overclocked anymore. I have a X800 Pro and I want to know what acceptable temps for the card are. Right now I have overclocked the card slowly from the native 475 MHz core and 450 MHz RAM to 550 MHz core and 450 MHz RAM. I haven't loaded it but my idle tempafter about 5 minutes is 41 celsius and very very slowly rising.
     
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  2. Addis

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    thats quite an overclock for the GPU. If you want to sustain it safely get a graphics card heatsink, bigger than te one with the card.
     
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  3. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    arctic cooling makes mighty fine heatsinks for cards :)
     
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  4. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    I remember looking and they had none for a 6800GT, any pointers?
     
    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG, Jul 10, 2005
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  5. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    cooler for 6800GT isn't made yet
     
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  6. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    damn it, and 7800 is out already, at least some arctic silver 5 is possible
     
    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG, Jul 10, 2005
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  7. max12590

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    Yea, my main question is still unanswered.
     
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  8. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    thats a pretty good temp, video cards of today heat up alot more than other components, my GPU is 48 on ambient, yeah I know, pretty bad, like 65 on load, i know what I'm gonna put on it's chipset, some nice old AS5
     
    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG, Jul 10, 2005
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  9. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    my friend's 9800pro easily hits above 60 IDLE and I wouldn't doubt 70 load. Good case, good airflow but ATI's really cheap and put a piece of crap cooler on it.
     
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  10. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

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    some arctic silver five would lower it at least 5 degrees right?
     
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  11. max12590

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    Must not be much of a piece of crap, at least not on the X800. Well, are there any other drowbacks to overclocking besides temperature? Otherwise I will set it to OC at startup.
     
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  12. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    shortens your cards lifespan alot, like down to 80 years or so haha
     
    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG, Jul 11, 2005
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    Hahaha yea, I'm not too worried about lifespan. I will have it out by the end of the year.
     
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  14. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    yeah true, nah im gonna sli mine cuz 2 6800GTs make 1 1/2 of a 7800
     
    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG, Jul 11, 2005
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    Sounds good. I might Crossfire mine but I doubt it.
     
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  16. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    wouldn't require much just a mobo upgrade for us Amd users (939) everything else would be compatible, and of course though, crossfire vid cards
     
    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG, Jul 11, 2005
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  17. max12590

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    Yea, but we'll see how the technology is when it comes out and how many of the kinks have been worked out by December.
     
    max12590, Jul 12, 2005
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