What is/was your hottest running graphics card?

My trusty GF 5900 finally retires after 4+ years of service when I receive my Gainward GF 8500GT in the next few days and I was looking for a way of sending the old girl off in style...

However I was struggling to find something that really set my 5900 apart until I read about people complaining about how hot the new 2900xt gets.

That's when it hit me, the one thing that my card does better than any other is get HOT!

For those of you bothered by the heat of the new 2900xt you might want to consider that my geforce 5900 (stock: 400mhz core, 425mhz ram) IDLES at 79C and 30secs of artifact scanning in ATItool gets the temp up to a toasty 106C! 8O

It's like getting a free imersion heater with your graphics card

My trusty GF 5900 stands ready to fry an egg quicker than your stove!

Do you think your card is better?

Post your temps and let the sizzling commence, mmm bacon...

GF 5900 Idle: 79C, Load: 106C... Beat That!

Probably my 9800 Pro, when it was overclocked.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........

115c on my 6800gt

My X800XL 55C idle 91C under load.

Yeah I know, but it still make me nervous when it gets up that high.

Come on guys!
No more competitor? 8)

I had a Sapphire x800 Factory OC'd that ran at about 90c - 95c under load. It was like a little nuclear reactor in my box. Nice in the winter as it kept my feet warm in the mornings.

Same on my Leadtek's WinFast 6800 GT (OCed)
Died after 10 month of use hitting that temp only in hottest summer days.
I bought a zalman cooler when I've started getting artifacts at all clocks.. well prolonged the life of my card for 2 month but it died anyway

85C - 110C....., you guys must live in

HELL!!

I have two 8800GTX, and the one furthest from the fan has never gone over 73C full load...., and I was worried then and the are OC'ed.???????

My hottest card ever is definitely a Voodoo 3 3000. It was so hot I once boiled a pot of water and cooked speghetti on it.

I don't have temps but a nasa probed once crashed through my bedroom window thinking it was heading for the sun. It coast me $3000 to patch the roof.

Now that's hot!!!

My room is MUCH hotter than any other room in the house, and thats with the window open!

After a morning of encoding video, my room stayed unbearably hot for the rest of the day.

My Specs: Dell XPS Gen 3
Pentium 4 540 Prescott with Heatbust and Hyperthreading 3.2ghz, non OC
ATI X800SE/GT gpu

After my PC wasnt used for a couple weeks, my room became much cooler, even cooler than any other room in the house.

But I have never felt hot air coming out the back of the PC. The HSF has also never felt hot to the touch, maybe a little warm during full load.

I have no idea how the cooling in my case works. I will have to post some pics so you guys can help me out.

Dam it!
that beats my X1900XTX! :x
but not in loudness! 8)

That was about two years ago that it was hitting those temps
the heatsink was full of dust for about two months before
i found the problem 8O

It is still kickin though.

My hottest running card, suprisingly, was my 9800pro, after overclock, with a zalman ZM80D-HP ran hot to the touch. The suprising part is that my x850xt (running at 600/580) never goes over 30C (well, thanks, in part, to my modded nikita watercooler i have running on it.)

hahah at one point i sorta accidentaly ran a piece of aluminum heatsink across the corner of the board and i guess that something got fried, and since then i cant use ATi Overdrive or see the temps in ATItool. However, i remember that the memory at oc had a hard time reaching 45C (with small zalman heatsinks from the before mentioned passive cooler).
The temps are more of guesstimates made comparing the temp of the memory sink (which in theory should be the same 45 as b4) and the temps of my cpu block (which gives me a bearing as far as cold temps) and my GPU block. At full load, my GPU block runs (well, ran since i took the CPU of the water cooler loop and stuck stock HSF on it) considerably cooler. so i estimate the block to be doing 25-30, therefore itd be safe to say the GPU itself prolly runs a lttle over that, at or around 30-35.

I could get some screens up if i figured out what is wrong with the card's temp/fans speed sensor...

Or is it that you want a picture of the cooler?


i might have a pic of my old 9800 (RIP, it got fried cause of a faulty powersupply sometime between last september and last november)
and it on the water loop, and meybe even a picture of it with its old passive cooler...

Woohoo!
You and Sirheck are now in the first place!
Congratulation!
You two have won the "The Hottest of The Hottest GPU" Gold cup! (for now!)

Last place!

I've got an xfx 6800gt which can get up to 108c if I don't hoover the fan every 6 months or so :-)

Like a few others here I also "had" a EVGA 6800GT AGP.

When I first got it I only noticed temps at about 50-90c, after 2 months they started hitting 120c.
For the last 3 months of its life it never ran below 85c(idle) and was always hitting 120+ in any game before it slowed itself down from the 120c threshhold.
Eventually just died and stopped displaying anything, so I tried cleaning it and came up with about a Kg of dust completely blocking the main heatsink...still doesn't work now, so i've downgraded to a fx5500.

Unfortunately I don't have a temperature sensor on the fx5500 or I would have killed my 6800gt temps. The fan on my fx5500 is partially broken, and usually won't start spinning itself. Sometimes it works and cools the heatsink like a normal fan, other times it just doesn't spin so the heatsink has to cool itself... What I have to do to get it to spin is once the pc is on I have to take off the side cover and stick my fingers inside and try fiddle with the fan till it starts spinning(which is some sketchy shit).

Once just for fun I tried Titan Quest on 1280x1024 max everything on the fx5500. poor thing was lucky if it got 2fps, after playing I realized that the fan wasn't spinning....I wonder how high its threshhold is...

I think my Voodoo 3 2000 got to 1000C when it went through the local incinerator!!! Does that count? The bench went with it, so I can't give you the killer results!! Hehehehehe

Well i couldnt stand my thinger on the passive cooler of my voodoo banshee when it was at full load.

XFX 7950GT, which I returned when it hit 118 C. It would have gone higher but I was afraid it would burn down the house.

That was without O/C on the passively cooled card.

Looks like we have a few Voodoo's here. Those were really hot. Just a passive sink no fan.

You had to watch where you touched in your computer. You could burn yourself pretty bad on a voodoo card.

wow my x800xt pe used to freeze/lock/reboot at ~70c+


glad you guys didnt caught your house on fire like that other poor guy [/list]

My mobility radeon x1400...I OC'd it using SpeedStrip to the max it would go for a couple days...about +250 core and +300 memory above stock I think it was...when I keep it stock, it runs maybe 40 degrees C...when it was OC'd up there, just keeping it idle in windows, no apps open or anything, it was creeping up above 60 degrees C...and pulling the CPU and DIMM temps up with it...part of that is because the fans don't always kick in when they should, though...I had to force them on using a fan utility in the end :?

Overall, I didn't try benchmarking them OC'd like this...probably would have tried to shoot up above 90 C...I think I'll keep them a little closer to stock speeds in the future

So, I guess mine doing 75 in GTR2 is fine... and I thought it was on the hot side. The Core 2 Duo on the other hand is doing only 45.