eVGA 8800 GTS temperature

Hello,

I installed my new eVGA 8800 GTS card and also the newest drivers 97.44 for Windows XP.

NVidia reports 80 degrees in idle and 85 in load.
Are these readings ok ? Is this a faulty card?

Thank you

Idle does seem little high, but 85C is under full load, which is good.

uhhhhhh am i the only one that thinks that is ridiculously hot?! are all 8800's this way?! i mean, seriously, i cringe when my video card gets near 60, lol.

Which version of the card do you have? I picked up a BFG, and I dont hear the card fan at all, and my idle is 60c with the case cover off. I dont know If i like the card being so quiet, but you should be seeing beter temps.

To note: its 50 degrees in the house, which helps.

But its damn quiet. Every now and then I think "oh great, something happend cause my computer is off". Both the 8800 and the c2d fans are amazing! Very impressed.

My 8800 GTX idles at 58c and under heavy load may hit 80c, so I'd say your way to hot for idle.

I looked at the diagram for your case and it looks very very similar to how my case's airflow is. However, my rear fan under the PSU pushes out 110cfm.

I do not know of any fans that are as strong as Silverstone's FM121 but man, it was the best 20$ I ever spent. It might be loud but who cares when you have your volume cranked up or wearing earphones . It comes with a knob for RPM control anyway. Even if you don't OC, its a good investment as it'll keep everything (ram, cpu, vid card) cooler. My CPU idles at 37c with the help of the FM121.

I do not think an aftermarket cooler is necessary for the vid card. The stock one is plenty sufficient unless you are willing to dump more $ than the case fan I suggested. RMA using EVGA's advance RMA if it is really broke. Cross ship is nice...I signed up for it just in case crap happens - yes, mine is an EVGA.

I got rivatuner and set the fan from 60% (default) to 80%

Idle: 69c
Load: 82c

But they're not that great either. :?

I can't seem to find the temperature in the control panel. The help file for hte control panel says that it should be under 3D Settings at the "Select a category" menu. Is this true? Because I have no 3D Settings menu!

I tried to see if there was an update to the control panel on nvidia's website, but all I could seem to find was for windows vista, also I have the 97.44 drivers

Those temps are normal for graphics cards, they're built to withstand much worse, hard drive wise, I doubt it would harm it. FYI, dont touch something that's 140-60 degrees farenheit

If those are fantastic temps., what would my 50c idle 66c load temps be considered ?
Thermaltake 22 cfm slot fan over the card (Aerocool BTX box), and card fan at 85%, room temp 21c.

I have an XFX 8800GTS XXX edition which is already factory OC'd. But I OC it to 625 core and 980 memory and when playing Crysis on high settings I max out my temp at 63 C. So if you are around 85 C under load that is too high. I idle around 58 C and I have a cruddy eMachines factory case with poor air flow. Make sure you go into the nVidia panel and turn up the fan speed because it defaults at 60%. Put it at 85-90% and even take off teh side panel of your case for better cooling.