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.

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
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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.

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.

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.

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.