- Joined
- Dec 13, 2003
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO USA
Here's a quick post to report my temps on my latest GPU. It's an EVGA superclocked 7900 GTX 512MB. Previous card was a 7800GT that I had overclocked to 499 GHZ. This new one is factory oc'd to 680 GHZ.
I had the new card in my rig using the heatpipe cooler that shipped with it from EVGA for just over a week. It would overheat resulting in graphical glitches, mostly weird straight lines running diagonally from the corner of a building in a game or other oddities like that. The GPU would go all the way up to 58°C. Sometimes the game would lock up completely.
I now have my GPU and CPU in the same loop: Res - Chevette HC - MAG 3 pump - Apogee (CPU cooler) - MCW55 - (GPU) - back to res.
While playing BF2 at 1400 X 1050 all settings maxed out, the CPU reports a max temp of 41C and the GPU peaks out at 40C. Graphical glitches are gone, and the game is completely stable. AS5 has not even had a chance to settle in yet, so I expect lower temps on my GPU in the coming days.
In contrast, my 7800GT overclocked to 499 GHZ must have been contributing considerably more heat. Max temp would often climb up to 46C on my loop. Nothing about the loop has changed at all. In fact, I didn't need to even touch my Apogee to install the new card.
Two observations:
7800GT manually overclocked ran hotter than my new 7900GTX factory "superclocked".
My Chevette heater core continues to do an excellent and near-silent job of cooling an overclocked dual core AMD Opteron and a highly overclocked GPU.
I had the new card in my rig using the heatpipe cooler that shipped with it from EVGA for just over a week. It would overheat resulting in graphical glitches, mostly weird straight lines running diagonally from the corner of a building in a game or other oddities like that. The GPU would go all the way up to 58°C. Sometimes the game would lock up completely.
I now have my GPU and CPU in the same loop: Res - Chevette HC - MAG 3 pump - Apogee (CPU cooler) - MCW55 - (GPU) - back to res.
While playing BF2 at 1400 X 1050 all settings maxed out, the CPU reports a max temp of 41C and the GPU peaks out at 40C. Graphical glitches are gone, and the game is completely stable. AS5 has not even had a chance to settle in yet, so I expect lower temps on my GPU in the coming days.
In contrast, my 7800GT overclocked to 499 GHZ must have been contributing considerably more heat. Max temp would often climb up to 46C on my loop. Nothing about the loop has changed at all. In fact, I didn't need to even touch my Apogee to install the new card.
Two observations:
7800GT manually overclocked ran hotter than my new 7900GTX factory "superclocked".
My Chevette heater core continues to do an excellent and near-silent job of cooling an overclocked dual core AMD Opteron and a highly overclocked GPU.
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