Best Temperature for a 8800GTS

**Aus_Karlos** · 11-11-2007, 05:12 PM

What is the best temperature a 8800GTS runs at and its max. I have a lot of cooling fans all over the place but i still carnt seem to keep the cards idle under 64c and when its on load its about 70-75c depending on how graphically intense the game is. Ive been looking through other forums most people say load is 70-80c and idle is 50-60c. Is that true. Looking at all these other forums makes me think they have no clue because they all have different answers. One even states that it can properly function at 100c.
Also will having the GPU fan at 100% all the time increase the chance that the fan will fail. The stock speed is 60% but ive pushed it to 70% just to keep the idle temp 65c. It kind of seems that Nvidia have supplied us with an inadequate heatsink and fan.

1 g0t 0wn3d · 11-11-2007, 05:14 PM

Well the best is lower i have seen them as low as 50c underload (liquid cooling) and i think max is 85c

11-11-2007, 05:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Aus_Karlos Moderator, Games Team Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Western Australia Posts: 2,947 OS: Vista Ultimate x64, Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit, Ubuntu x64, Windows 7 x64 Beta My System Blog Entries: 2	Best Temperature for a 8800GTS What is the best temperature a 8800GTS runs at and its max. I have a lot of cooling fans all over the place but i still carnt seem to keep the cards idle under 64c and when its on load its about 70-75c depending on how graphically intense the game is. Ive been looking through other forums most people say load is 70-80c and idle is 50-60c. Is that true. Looking at all these other forums makes me think they have no clue because they all have different answers. One even states that it can properly function at 100c. Also will having the GPU fan at 100% all the time increase the chance that the fan will fail. The stock speed is 60% but ive pushed it to 70% just to keep the idle temp 65c. It kind of seems that Nvidia have supplied us with an inadequate heatsink and fan. __________________ MemTest86 / Nvidia Drivers / ATI Drivers / DirectX 9.0c / Sys Requirements / Everest TSF Steam Group

11-11-2007, 05:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
1 g0t 0wn3d Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sedona, az Posts: 6,429 OS: Vista basic 32bit My System	Re: Best Temperature for a 8800GTS Well the best is lower i have seen them as low as 50c underload (liquid cooling) and i think max is 85c __________________ Bench Test \| PC Wizard \| System specs \| PSU info \| PSU calculator \| Memtest86+ \| Speedfan[/center]