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GF FX 5800 - Serious heat issues.
Hello there,
I'm hoping somebody could enlighten me over the following. I recently bought a 2nd hand Club-3d Geforce FX 5800 128MB that was 2 months old. Not too long after switching the computer on, let alone playing games the heatsink had become so increadably hot I could not touch it with my bare hands for even half a second. I realised that I hadn't plugged in the supplemental power cable and did so however this did not solve the problem. Is this normal? It seems insane that the card gets THAT hot normally. Duron 1400 512MB DDR333 Gigabyte GA7VM400M (KM400) SB Live Value Club-3d GF FX 5800 128 Thank you in advance. -- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. |
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Have the same card (aopen aeolus), and it´s getting hot, cant hold on it
without burn my fingers. But in the driver interface the temp-warning is 140*C, so i guess it is made to operate hot. I have sanded the ram-coolers and the gpu surface because they were very uneven, and then fitted a zalman hp-80 on it, and now it shows temp at 60*C. I have overclocked it to 400@490 and 800@970 without problem, no artifacts and stable in testing (3dmark 2003: 5385). The DDR2-ram is said to be hot too. "VoidRoamer" skrev i melding om.au... Hello there, I'm hoping somebody could enlighten me over the following. I recently bought a 2nd hand Club-3d Geforce FX 5800 128MB that was 2 months old. Not too long after switching the computer on, let alone playing games the heatsink had become so increadably hot I could not touch it with my bare hands for even half a second. I realised that I hadn't plugged in the supplemental power cable and did so however this did not solve the problem. Is this normal? It seems insane that the card gets THAT hot normally. Duron 1400 512MB DDR333 Gigabyte GA7VM400M (KM400) SB Live Value Club-3d GF FX 5800 128 Thank you in advance. -- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. |
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Thanks for that. I was worried I'd bought myself a dud. It seems nuts
that it gets so hot. I could cook a roast in my case! Strangely the temperature gauge shows only 50 deg C yet my fingers burn on the slightest contact. Seems a bit iffy. Considering that 140 deg is 40 deg higher than you need to boil water... Is there anyone else out there with a similar card? Do you have the same level of heat? Ta. Vegar Skogland wrote: Have the same card (aopen aeolus), and it´s getting hot, cant hold on it without burn my fingers. But in the driver interface the temp-warning is 140*C, so i guess it is made to operate hot. I have sanded the ram-coolers and the gpu surface because they were very uneven, and then fitted a zalman hp-80 on it, and now it shows temp at 60*C. I have overclocked it to 400@490 and 800@970 without problem, no artifacts and stable in testing (3dmark 2003: 5385). The DDR2-ram is said to be hot too. "VoidRoamer" skrev i melding om.au... Hello there, I'm hoping somebody could enlighten me over the following. I recently bought a 2nd hand Club-3d Geforce FX 5800 128MB that was 2 months old. Not too long after switching the computer on, let alone playing games the heatsink had become so increadably hot I could not touch it with my bare hands for even half a second. I realised that I hadn't plugged in the supplemental power cable and did so however this did not solve the problem. Is this normal? It seems insane that the card gets THAT hot normally. Duron 1400 512MB DDR333 Gigabyte GA7VM400M (KM400) SB Live Value Club-3d GF FX 5800 128 Thank you in advance. -- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. -- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. |
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VoidRoamer wrote in message . com.au...
Hello there, I'm hoping somebody could enlighten me over the following. I recently bought a 2nd hand Club-3d Geforce FX 5800 128MB that was 2 months old. Not too long after switching the computer on, let alone playing games the heatsink had become so increadably hot I could not touch it with my bare hands for even half a second. I realised that I hadn't plugged in the supplemental power cable and did so however this did not solve the problem. Is this normal? It seems insane that the card gets THAT hot normally. Duron 1400 512MB DDR333 Gigabyte GA7VM400M (KM400) SB Live Value Club-3d GF FX 5800 128 Thank you in advance. The FX5800 is a HOTHEAD, it's already a wonder they stay stabile at such temps, but they work wonderwell! This though means less room to overclock and indeed a super heated card, so having good airflow in your case is a PRE here. Nice card, that is surely is but it's problems truly are not the most nicest. Load cooling, heated card and yet...not the performance some less heated card, with lesser cooling will offer. So, just learn to accept that your card runs hot, it's normal ...and it's ..safe. |
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Thanks.
Dark Avenger wrote: VoidRoamer wrote in message . com.au... Hello there, I'm hoping somebody could enlighten me over the following. I recently bought a 2nd hand Club-3d Geforce FX 5800 128MB that was 2 months old. Not too long after switching the computer on, let alone playing games the heatsink had become so increadably hot I could not touch it with my bare hands for even half a second. I realised that I hadn't plugged in the supplemental power cable and did so however this did not solve the problem. Is this normal? It seems insane that the card gets THAT hot normally. Duron 1400 512MB DDR333 Gigabyte GA7VM400M (KM400) SB Live Value Club-3d GF FX 5800 128 Thank you in advance. The FX5800 is a HOTHEAD, it's already a wonder they stay stabile at such temps, but they work wonderwell! This though means less room to overclock and indeed a super heated card, so having good airflow in your case is a PRE here. Nice card, that is surely is but it's problems truly are not the most nicest. Load cooling, heated card and yet...not the performance some less heated card, with lesser cooling will offer. So, just learn to accept that your card runs hot, it's normal ...and it's ..safe. -- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. |
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