graphics card heat!!!!!!!!!:(

[iceman7311]

what temp should i start to worry about my 6600gt evga?

 

[zeke_mo]

Mine wont get any hotter than 90C but target range would be 55-80C( I have two 6800 GTs)

 

[LordOfLA]

anything over 120C on your vga core start panicing

Anything under that, dont panic.

 

[iceman7311]

how graphics cards can be so much hotter than regular cpu's?

 

[LeeJend]

Put a CPU cooler that is 10 times bigger on the video card GPU and it will run a lot cooler.

 

[iceman7311]

which one?

 

[iceman7311]

its just at 58under full load and 51 without i was just worried b/c i thought the core would be about the same as the cpu and isn't it corrrect that one does not want their cpu over 60c?

 

[LordOfLA]

VGA chips are baked at 300C and then put into operation repeatedly in a cycle. I thik there was an article at anandtech or THG about it.

GPU's run hotter and are safer hotter than cpu's, by design. I mean if you had to paint 400 portraits a second, you'd be pretty hot too I suspect

 

[Taurus]

yeah, graphics cores are quite different than cpu cores. i don't know the technical names of the two types, but the graphics cores can operate under more extreme heat. cpu cores are quite a bit more complex--they can do just about anything but have lower heat tolerances.