Temperature!!!!!!

[!!tio!!]

:D My Leadtek GeForce GTS Pro 32MB is 69C wattabout urs?
It would be better if I could have some one giving the temp of the same thing as mine with blue orb on!

[typhoonmike]

Well was just wondering the same thing. Using a Creative Labs Annihilator 2 GTS(Geforce2 GTS). Decided I wanted to know what the temperature of the thing was. Took off the stock HSF and replaced it with an old Pentium 133 heatsink and a YS-Tech 60mm fan. Arctic Silver II between the HSF and GPU and pretty sure everything is touching pretty well. Temperature measured from back of card is at around 52 degrees Celsius idle. Haven't even tried stressing it yet. This is also with the case open. Haven't tested the temperature with the Blue Orb I just got but I think it's going to be alot worse. Either the Blue Orb is just a cheap product or I just got a junky one. When I attach it to my card with the push pins I can look and see a very large gap between the heatsink and the GPU. The GPU has been lapped pretty flat I think.

[!-=sky=-!]

u need to lap the blue orob as well since the blue orb isn NOT flat
in almost all cases

[typhoonmike]

Well I attempted that but it's not just a matter of it being slightly not flat. I mean it's almost as if it's warped. I have tried to lap it some but the screws holding the fan onto the orb also seem to get in the way a bit. Anyway I attached the orb anyway and managed to get it onto the GPU pretty well. Started things up and at idle the temperature was at 55 Celsius and probably more since the sensor wasn't on it exactly right. Tried 2 different sensors with 2 different monitors to make sure one wasn't reading differently. Both the same. Don't know what everyone else is doing to get low temperatures cause it's nowhere close to being low with me. I can even turn a room fan on the thing and it don't lower the temperature more then probably a degree if that. oh well

[Karsta]

I had Asus V7700 GF2 with BLORB (broke it by short circuiting those capacitors on backside)

My orb was also of bad quality - one fan screw protruded about 0.5mm out of the base (which wasn't flat). Because the screw would have inhibited good contact I took the screw off and shortened it with a file then I lapped the base. The chip itself needed also some lapping (it has plastic casing so there is no risk involved).

Some ASII and temps dropped from about 45° to 30°-32°. Didn't gain better o/c though...

Oh - I had the HS/fan attached on backside with thermal adhesive tape which came with BLORB to cool those capacitors. That's what finally killed the card - adhesive didn't hold anymore and HS dropped (had stripped computer with mobo lying on table). I reattached the fan with screws but ASII didn't insulate the capacitors well enough from heatsink which then burned the card.