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shrouded^god · Jan 30, 2008, 10:16 PM // 22:16

Whats an average temp for a video card...I have an older MB....AGP so Im running a 7600 GT...temps seem to be ~50...sometimes as low as ~35 and the highest Ive seen is ~57ish. Which I know are ok temps....but when should I become alarmed at the temp?

Nanood · Jan 30, 2008, 10:20 PM // 22:20

be alarmed when it gets to 90 degrees or more lol.. your temps are fine.

shrouded^god · Jan 30, 2008, 10:24 PM // 22:24

Ok thanks...BTW...I hope we're talking Celsius ^^

lordpwn · Jan 30, 2008, 11:39 PM // 23:39

That temp's nothing to worry about. My GeForce 7900GS's default warning temperature is somewhere around 100 C, though it's likely to start having display artifacts before it ever reaches that. I've never seen it go past 70.

Narada · Jan 31, 2008, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Newer cards are also probably going to generate a lot more heat than older ones. It seems every time I upgrade to a better graphics card my temperature sensors register quite a nice jump in temperature... GW will run at ~40C on my Linux box with a GeForce 6200 OC, I believe it ran at ~50C when it used a Radeon X700 Pro, and my laptop's 8600m GT more or less idles around 70-75C, averages ~80-90C with GW, and if it happens to near 95-100C I decide to take a break for awhile.

It's pretty much the same with all new components that come out these days - the more powerful they become, the more heat they tend to generate. Honestly I usually just end up playing in a window to keep the temperature around 80. :/ Back when I posted here regularly a few years ago 90C was the general "oh snap" temperature (if I remember correctly) and that still seems pretty sensible when applied to today's video cards, so I'd have to agree with Nanood. Some high-end cards are designed to run hotter than others, but I'm still not very keen at running over 200 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods of time. :P

Tarun · Jan 31, 2008, 11:54 PM // 23:54

Did you Google it? Often just entering that information into Google will tell you the temps, etc. GPU-Z might do this as well.