Extreme hot temperatures on XFX 8800GT

Maybe a little high but nothing to worry about.
GFX cards reach far higher temps than CPUs.

U can always look at an aftermarket cooler, as the single slot coolers are generally ****.

unfortunately it is normal and i hate it! and that's why i bought a zalman vf900 cooler for my 8800gt and has brought the idle temp down into the low/mid 40s.

and use arcticsilver5 as well!

i second that if it can be done!

Might not be so relevant for Nvidia users, but a few years ago over on driverheaven.net, the forum members got to ask Sir Eric Demers, an ATI engineer, about those high GFX temps.

"I posed the temperature question to one of ATIs top engineers Eric "sireric" Demers, this is what he had to say.

"At over 100C or so at the die temperature, thermal issues and possibilities of permanent damage start being important (I would strive to keep it below 100C). Certainly by 125C, permanent damage will occur. Below, that, life expectancy is shortened with higher temperature, but you should be fine for a few years.

We test our boards up to 55C ambient temperature, and at that temperature, all of them work fine. Most computers have much lower ambient temperature, and the associated die temperature should be fine, except if there is a fan failure."

http://www.driverheaven.net/ati-gr [...] vered.html

I still happen to think these temps are nuts though.....