XFX 8800GTX core temp very high!

yes it is a bit high for idle, make sure you have good airflow in the case

He's right. It's not unheard of.

Check you case flow. Is you CPU running about 5C more than others average temps? Also what is you ambient temps around your room. There are so many factors that can easily put you a few degrees higer. The most important temp to record is your load temp. Take some reading during some heavy gaming and let us know what it's reading.

I think my 8800's idle around 64C.

Water=good. But ATIs are designed to run hotter. They can weather 100C (not recommended though), a temp that would fry an Nvidia part. Perhaps the 8800s are more heat hardy that the GF 7 parts, not sure though.

The problem with the 8800 GTX is that there are no air coolers for it, so ur stuck with the stock cooler, and the stock cooler as always.. sucks!

Sell the 8800 GTX and buy an X1950XT

Yeah if he wants all of his framerates to be cut in half and lose future Direct X10 support.

with the idle temps as high as ~70C, they better be.

Well, there you go .

Regarding Track's comment, the stock on the X1950XT is no prize either, that card still gets plenty hot and pretty noisy with stock, but it gets the job done. I still advocate the Accelero X2 for such a card, much quieter, slightly better performance.

Aftermarket 8800 coolers will soon be available, give it a couple months, or even weeks. They're coming, the cards are too popular for them not to be coming.

Heh,well, a sapphire x1950xt 256mb single card(well if you want more than 256mb,Get of the crt!,unless you have a more expensive flat panel), has enough to run the new games,depending on your processer,and it will have enough grunt to run games in 2007 that will be writtin in dx9 lauguage,unless the game makers are stupid enough to release there games under vista,in 2007,when it is buggy,(remember xp sp1?)

Eh?

What difference does having a TFT monitor or a CRT monitor make to amount of gfx ram?

The only thing I can think of is that you are aiming this at the fact that most TFTs sold run at that horrible 1280x1024 "Inverse-Widescreen" 5:4 resolution, where owners of CRTs often use 1600x1200.

Apart from the fact that a high end CRT is better than most TFTs about for gaming and colour rendition, resolution stopped having a noticeable impact on VRAM usage years ago. VRAM these days is eaten up by massive uncompressed textures for the most part, and the resolution is not a factor in this.


Having upgraded recently from a heavily overclocked 7900GT (740/1400), which performed around the level of an x1900XT, to an 8800GTX, I'd say there IS a significant difference.

Oblivion is leaps and bounds better, HDR+AA rocks. Most other games that before I didn't have the GPU power to run AA on, or only low levels of AA, I now run fine in 16xQ AA.

Telling him his GPU is a little hot so he should go out and buy... an R580 based GPU that also runs hot, and performs nowhere near as well... is just silly.

There are a few DX10 games scheduled for 2007, that will be Vista only.



Anyway, my 8800GTX idles around 54°C. At 100% fan speed set with nTune, it idles around 49°C. I would say yours is a little hot therefore.

What is your case airflow like? My intake fans blow air over my HDDs in the direction of my GPU, and I run without the side on the case, so I may be a little lower than average.

What's the load temp like? That's what really matters!

My 8800 GTX idles around 55-60C and it goes up to 80 Celsius under heavy gaming. It was about 10C hotter with a case with not so great airflow.
Now i am using the Antec nine hundred case

When im playing oblivion it maxes out at 75c. hasnt gone above that.

and another thing i wanna know is why the card can handle oblivion and get jerky when playing NFS carbon.

Must be your case ventilation or lack thereof. My 8800GTX idles at 49c and hits loads of only 54c after hours of playing Oblivion.

LMAO Tuniq Tower 120! keeps my E6400 nice and cool at 3.5ghz There is acually a 120mm fan that comes with that heatsink but its nicely hidden in the middle to give a push and pull type of airflow effect.

Well until the PC game makers finally wake up and start making PC games that don't suck. I have my faith in DX10.

hey, you know what. i set the fan manually to 100% and idle temp dropped to 58C.

ntune also worked. maybe cos its only 1 card.

Ok, I know I'm gonna get a flame or two for this, but dude, you're running 200+ watts of power through a piece of silicon smaller than a dime! Did you expect it to run cold? You either need to get serious airflow through your case, use liquid cooling or both. The heat generated by your card is going to cause overheating in other components and will kill the lifespan of your system. Make sure the room you have it in has a temp of 60 to 65 degrees[F]. Sorry if I sound like an ahole, just trying to deal out some common sense....

Isn't it " they run hotter due to the design", rather than they are designed to run hotter ?

Video cards coolers atleast for high end cards are actually getting bigger then CPU HSF's! but all cause of the somewhat limited space.

I remember people laughing at the FX5800's dual slot "vacume" cooler, and ATi fanboys dissing it, now its a standard for most high end cards. Atleast when the geforce 6 (at the time, same as the 7 and 8) doubled the performance, it didnt double the cooler size!