6800 ultra overheating??

[madmo]

hey guys my friend just completed his rig with the following spec

200gb hd

BFG 6800 ultra oc out of box. (AGP version) on 550 W Q-tec power supply.

amd 3400 +


just wondering we started the machine up decent temps,

cpu load @ 37
system @ 38
hd @ 41

however we are extremely worried about the bfg @ 1024x768 , 75htz, 32bit colour , its idle temp is 55 C straght after boot up !?!? after setting the Antialiasing and anistropic to 8 each it and played medal of honour , amazing graphics at max, but GPU temp broke 61 load !!

is this normal for this card or something very rong going on here,
are they serious about 120 C??

[HiJon89]

Thats fine, video cards get very hot, anything under 90 is fine.

[p4z1f1st]

sounds normal

leech this and then tell me your temps @ load

[domwells]

The only problem i can see is the Q-tec power supply.

[p4z1f1st]

The only problem i can see is the Q-tec power supply.

y should a PSU be the reason for overheating? (and we told already - there is no overheating all normal results )

[JBREAKS]

this is my idle with the core at 450

[madmo]

thanks for the quest responses guys very helpful

just wondering should we keep this puppy up at 8x and 8xS settings , high quality , or should we lower it ? , although there is a massive difference in smoothing effects in game between 4x and 4x :S , this card is capable of running at 8 no problem right?

p4z1f1st

ur program made it go to 74 and kept rising until i exited!

JBREAKS

how did u get it that cool ?

[JBREAKS]

the cooler that came with it its the gainwood one has a nice lump of cooper under there i just have the fan running full speed all the time used the expert tool that came with it.oh and i took the heatsink off and put artic cooling paste on it

[p4z1f1st]

thanks for the quest responses guys very helpful

just wondering should we keep this puppy up at 8x and 8xS settings , high quality , or should we lower it ? , although there is a massive difference in smoothing effects in game between 4x and 4x :S , this card is capable of running at 8 no problem right?

p4z1f1st

ur program made it go to 74 and kept rising until i exited!

now you knowm what your load-temp is mate

but don't be afraid: HiJon89 is right - all under 90°C ist fine

(btw that program gives a MAXIMUM load to ALL parts of the GPU....normally you won't get in a game above 70°C - maybe, when it's a game, which uses massivly all kind of shader, etc)

btw. just use 4x Antialiasing and 16x Anisotropic Filtering - that gives you the best eye-candy with good performance

[Dojo | Warlord]

Yea, my Ultra gets to 72°C after about 30 minutes of rthdribl 1.2 at 800x600. (dragging the side and bottom of the window until it reads 800x600 on the top left corner)