HD2400pro temps

[Martijn]

I have got this Sapphire HD2400pro for quite some time now, but recently, my idle temps have gone up from ~65 to over 85C right now. Remember it's passive and overclocked to XT speeds, but still... 85C idle is a lot! When loaded up it goes all the way to 100C.

Now I know it'll probably be fine, but hey, any idea what it could be doing? I am running Vista Ultimate x64 and it is powering my secondary and tertiary screen.

[[XC] gomeler]

Aero. Vista is chock full of 3D crap, you can disable it all though which does decrease the "fun factor" of Vista but makes it less of a resource hog. Sounds like that passive card needs some airflow though.

[SoulsCollective]

There must be some reason for a 20degC temp jump. That wouldn't "just happen", unless you've changed monitoring program and your old one/new one is giving you the wrong temps.

Case fans? Case position? Change in air-con? Dust?

[Martijn]

gomeler;2827191']Aero. Vista is chock full of 3D crap, you can disable it all though which does decrease the "fun factor" of Vista but makes it less of a resource hog. Sounds like that passive card needs some airflow though.

There must be some reason for a 20degC temp jump. That wouldn't "just happen", unless you've changed monitoring program and your old one/new one is giving you the wrong temps.

Case fans? Case position? Change in air-con? Dust?

Found the problem... It was one of my casefans that had failed on me. I didn't see it at first, since it is located behind my hard disks. Fan has been replaced and it is at a steady 65 again :)

[Tbolo]

Is that 65* idle? That seems pretty high but I guess your OC'n on passive cooling.