GTX285 various mods.. which may work for GTX260/280/295 also

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Sounds like you have high ambients or a bad HSF mount. I replaced the stock thermal paste with MX-2 and with the fan on auto I get 85*C load in Crysis with the fan at ~72% and that's with 1.23/1.24v load. With the fan at 80 - 85% it holds temps in Crysis to ~78*C.

No and no. 37c ambient in an enclosed case is just fine, at least that's according to Everest, it stays 21c in my house most of the time so everything is just fine. My stock paste has also been replaced with MX-2 and it helped idle temps by 2-3c but didn't do anything for load temps using Crysis.


UPDATE: I believe I see how you guys are keeping your temps down. I've been using the auto fan setting which gradually raises fan speed as needed, but in doing so, it will allow the GPU to reach 85c before the fan ramps up to 100%. Usually Crysis will drive my temps to 85c within a few minutes at the auto fan setting and then it just maintains 83-85c with the fan running near 100%. I just played Crysis for about 10 minutes with the fan set manually to 85% and temps never went above 72c. I guess once temps really start to climb up around 80-85c, it's hard for the fan to bring them back down below 80c, so if you turn the fan up manually, the temps just never reach those levels.