Advice Graphics card running too hot?

[old.user4556]

Gents,

Finished my new build, absolutely brilliant so far, got all the software up to date and my documents across. I've been using it solid for a couple of days now with no issues so decided to try a game. After about 5 minutes of CS my PC just shut down completely. Now, I already know that my graphics card (an ATI Radeon 4850) runs on the hot side - you cannot touch the heatsink or it burns you. I downloaded a monitoring too and this is what I found:



The card idles at around 88c, so I manually overrode the fan from 50% to 100% and the temperature started to come down (as you can see). The massive jump is when I fired up CS:S where it rocketed to over 100c within seconds. It steadily rose to 110c when I decided to call it quits (about 2 minutes) when the temperature started to fall again.

Do you think this is why the PC shut itself off? Time for a new shiny graphics card?

I've had the fan on the GPU running at 100% fan with the PC idling, and it's still reading 70c.

 

[fettoken]

110c is not healthy really. Your card is idling at the temperature most others are getting at full~isch load. Something is not what it should be.

 

[Aada]

I would be very concerned with those temps, is it a new card? If so you might be able to return it?

Also If your computer is shutting down this is almost certainly the reason why.

 

[old.user4556]

Nahhh this is several year old ATI Radeon 4850 that's got a less-than-decent heatsink / fan combo on it. As I say it's always been on the hot side, it just appears to be tipped over the edge now. When my PC switched off mid-game, I was playing for about 5-7 minutes, so I reckon the temp could have gone close to 115c.

I'm going to order an ASUS GeForce GTX 660 2GB today - seems to be an excellent price / performance point.

 

[wolfeeh]

110 °C?
Fuck.
With boost 2.0 permanently kicked in my EVGA GTX 770 SC ACX hits about 60-65 °C

 

[wolfeeh]

Nahhh this is several year old ATI Radeon 4850 that's got a less-than-decent heatsink / fan combo on it. As I say it's always been on the hot side, it just appears to be tipped over the edge now. When my PC switched off mid-game, I was playing for about 5-7 minutes, so I reckon the temp could have gone close to 115c.

I'm going to order an ASUS GeForce GTX 660 2GB today - seems to be an excellent price / performance point.

If it's an Asus card with their Direct Cu II cooler then this is a worthy buy, they are really really good coolers.

 

[old.user4556]

Aye that's the one I got, absolutely superb. Quiet and cool, even under load I can't hear it.

 

[wolfeeh]

Aye that's the one I got, absolutely superb. Quiet and cool, even under load I can't hear it.

Up until yesterday I had an Asus Direct Cu II Geforce FTX 560 Ti, ran it for a little over a year, fantastic card. TBH I massively hummed and hahhed over switching to EVGA but heard so many good things about them I thought I would give them a go.

 

[Tom]

Provided the temperature sensor isn't over-reading the actual temperature, then yes that's far too hot. I have a GTX560 that runs at less than half that temperature.