Finally got a working Evga geforce 8600 GT graphics cars (after 3 weeks of fights with various cards). I was wondering what is the normal operating temperature on the card (not playing a graphics heavy game). Trying to gage my system's cooling system and how much heat a new power supply creates, and compare it to how my computer is set up, it's in a desk where the sides are against walls and the back is totally against the wall almost. i would like to try to push the card to the max just to see what it will do (I know it's not a top of the line 8800 but it's the best that would fit and perform in my system within my budget and would survive my building a new computer in the next year or so). Anyways, people's reports on their card temperatures would help. Right now i'm running at 49 degrees celcius, an obviously low temperature figuring i got internet programs running installing games and copying files, nothing stressing graphics card, on a low grapics game i reach about 54 degrees celcius. I want to test it out but not kill it. spent 3 weeks trying to upgrade a radeon X600 and this is the first card that was performing better and didn't crash my system every 10 minutes. My system is..
Dell Dimension E510
Intel Pentium 4 3.00 Ghz (runs around 2.8 GHz)
Running windows XP media edition
I replaced the memory with 4 1 GB cards (runs now at 3.25 GB)
I also know my memory board is crap (well it works but is veryyyyyyy picky) took me 2 hours to replace 2 512 cards with 1 GB cards (a process that takes me about 10 seconds on other computer)
Replaced the power supply with an antec basiq 500W (not the best but i work on a budget)
Running 2 internal hard drives one 80GB other i added with 160 GB
2 dvd drives (one a burner)
memory card reader
Monitor is a PCI flat screen (typical dell normal size flat screen) nothing fancy low refresh rate i know, one day i'll upgrade)
I upgraded my computer to the max that budget and motherboard will go, i'm wondering how far i can push things, any ideas, good games to test drive.
I do know alot about computers, Not graphics cards (low end and general use computer repairs) heck i get paid to fix everyday people's computers, graphics cards are a new world to me. advice, help, general temperature guidelines are great.
Thanks for responding. I think alot of people might wonder about temperature. (by the way i think my x600 card was crashing due to temperature pressures i put on it on medium quality games or was just the speed alone)
Dell Dimension E510
Intel Pentium 4 3.00 Ghz (runs around 2.8 GHz)
Running windows XP media edition
I replaced the memory with 4 1 GB cards (runs now at 3.25 GB)
I also know my memory board is crap (well it works but is veryyyyyyy picky) took me 2 hours to replace 2 512 cards with 1 GB cards (a process that takes me about 10 seconds on other computer)
Replaced the power supply with an antec basiq 500W (not the best but i work on a budget)
Running 2 internal hard drives one 80GB other i added with 160 GB
2 dvd drives (one a burner)
memory card reader
Monitor is a PCI flat screen (typical dell normal size flat screen) nothing fancy low refresh rate i know, one day i'll upgrade)
I upgraded my computer to the max that budget and motherboard will go, i'm wondering how far i can push things, any ideas, good games to test drive.
I do know alot about computers, Not graphics cards (low end and general use computer repairs) heck i get paid to fix everyday people's computers, graphics cards are a new world to me. advice, help, general temperature guidelines are great.
Thanks for responding. I think alot of people might wonder about temperature. (by the way i think my x600 card was crashing due to temperature pressures i put on it on medium quality games or was just the speed alone)
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