Why is my videocard so hot?

[Azeroth]

I have a probe attached to the back of my car where the back of the core is, it is reading aproximately 54-56C at load time, 48C idle. Is this acceptable or should I do something. I allready lapped the core's contact with the heatsink and applied some AS3. I am thinking of putting a stock P4 cooler on it.

 

[timmyqwest]

I honestly have no idea but based on what i know my card does i'd say tahts safe..but it's never toio early to put a CPU cooler on there, i did and got 25mhz on my GPU

 

[Azeroth]

What CPU cooler did you use, and do you have any pics? The stock intel cooler doesnt seem to fit all the way on, and covers some of the ram chips.

 

[pip]

the sk6/7 works fine if you remove the shim

 

[trdsw20]

The GF4 gets that hot. What kind of cooler do you have on it right now. I remember before I changed mine the HS was hot super hot and it was active.

 

[timmyqwest]

What CPU cooler did you use, and do you have any pics? The stock intel cooler doesnt seem to fit all the way on, and covers some of the ram chips.

I used my stock AMD cooler, fits perfectly, i do have some pics but i dont have a digital camara and havnt brought the film in yet

 

[OC-Master]

I have a probe attached to the back of my car where the back of the core is, it is reading aproximately 54-56C at load time, 48C idle. Is this acceptable or should I do something. I allready lapped the core's contact with the heatsink and applied some AS3. I am thinking of putting a stock P4 cooler on it.

Simply put, the GeForce4 TI's all run hot. My friends TI 4600 at 340MHz VPU clocked runs at 65c under load, now thats hot!

A TI4200 at stock (250MHz) runs fairly decent, and should run around 50c max when under load for like an hour.


OC-Master

 

[AMDNightmare]

yep gota try to put a fan to blow on it or give the video card some extra room like dont put anything close to it in the PCI slots.

 

[Azeroth]

I am gonna replace the stock cooler with one of these http://svc.com/newsvcgc3280.html

plus I am gonna make some custom ramsinks by cutting up an old P3 cooler I have lying around. Will post once I get it all done.

 

[Wommalong]

This seems to be a common "problem" or at lease we perceive it to be a problem, they (the manufactures) should give some guide lines as to appropriate running temps, etc. I got GF4 Ti 4400 and it to runs HOT. I simply placed a port cooler on the back (the side facing the CPU) of the card and it has helped in two ways, first it removes/circulates air from and around the back of the card and second it prevents the warm/hot air from you CPU from getting near the card. Just my two cents