NVIDIA GTX275: Too hot?

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ziphnor
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NVIDIA GTX275: Too hot?

Post by ziphnor » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:03 am

I just purchased a GTX275 and i am a bit concerned about temps. I have a tower style case, without any case fan (so its just GPU,CPU and PSU). (i used to have watercooling so the case fan wasnt needed).

Rivatuner says ambient temperature is 50C and idle core temp is 61C (no under or overclock).

Under load in Furmark it reaches about 92C at stock speeds. This seems quite high to me (one OC guide i read said not to OC if it lead to 90C+, but i am just at stock speed :)

How bad is 92C? Is it critical, or should i just ignore it?

UPDATE: With my case open it reached 85C in Furmark. Still seems quite high. Maybe its a bad idea that i store my two HDDs at the bottom of the case to the right of the video card?
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Post by aristide1 » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:49 am

All my NVidia cards have very low fan settings. Run EVGA precision tools or some other utility. Move the fan speed up to 40%, 50%, etc, until you like the numbers. Try to stay below 75C.

I set my fans to 60%, temps are 65-75C depending on workload.

Good luck.
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Post by niels007 » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:59 pm

Graphics cards can deal with heat and 90c is no real worry, plenty of stock cooling units get this under load. The 75c mentioned by the previous poster is quite subjective.. More objective is that users have been using hot grapics cards for years..

Sure, making it run cooler might increase the overclocking potential, but 90c load is not uncommon and nothing to worry about for todays high power 3D cards.
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Re: NVIDIA GTX275: Too hot?

Post by Olle P » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:11 am

ziphnor wrote:... ambient temperature is 50C ...
This figure alone tells me it's a good thing for you to install a case fan.

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Post by ~El~Jefe~ » Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:26 am

Well, prior to that he needs a real thermometer to measure ambient.

all software tools suck bad.
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Post by samuelmorris » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:30 am

There is no need to up the fan speed. All the graphics cards I've used for several years run up to 90ºC under load, and none of them have been affected in the slightest. People just assume graphics cards have the same temperature boundaries as CPUs, they don't. The mobile Geforces regularly run at 100-120ºC. The ones that reach 140ºC are the ones that fail regularly. That should give you an idea where the limit is.
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