A question about my 8800GTX temps.

Hey guys,

I was looking at riva tuner while i was playing some games and i noticed that the temperature of my BFG 8800GTX OC2 hits about 78C while playing games. I was just wondering if this would be ok for the card to run at this temp.

Riva Tuner reports the core frequency is at 621Mhz, (its the OC2 version from BFG factory overclocked) and I was thinking that this temp might be a bit high and reduce the lifespan of the chip. Therefore I was considering purchasing and Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2 [...] ta=1&disc=

I'd really like to know what you guys think,

Thanks,
Matt

My 8800GTX regularly gets up to 84degrees, Its overclocked to a similiar level and running on a stock cooler. Its been going strong for 18 months now... But then Im planning on replaceing it as soon as a worthy replacement card comes along, Hopefully it will have a few years life left in it still in the kids computers. They arent going to push it as hard as I do

Thanks for the all the replies

It has put my mind at rest now as i had a ATI 9800XT a few years ago which died from heat at a similar temperature, although it did hit 90C before i put an aftermarket cooler on it.

Yeah putting the fan speed up a bit sounds like a good idea it sits at 60% normally.

Thanks again,
Matt