smallfry on 14/2/2010 at 23:52
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
I really really really don't want to get rid of my sound card (particularly given its cost) but obviously don't want to burn out the GPU. What's the safest max temp for these things?
Just want to say real quick that it's very unlikely that you'll damage your card due to overheating. Modern graphics cards begin to throttle before they reach unsafe temperatures, meaning they slow themselves down long before "burning out."
Gryzemuis on 15/2/2010 at 01:03
Quote Posted by smallfry
Just want to say real quick that it's very unlikely that you'll damage your card due to overheating. Modern graphics cards begin to throttle before they reach unsafe temperatures, meaning they slow themselves down long before "burning out."
Yeah, right.
I had a 8800GTX. On watercooling. I hadn't noticed, but the waterblock on the 8800GTX got clogged. I did indeed see lower framerates because the card throttled down. But it never shut off.
Unfortunately, this was in the days when my Wolrd of Warcraft guild was raiding in Sunwell Plateau. And that place was known to be unoptimized, and everybody got lower framerates than usual. So I didn't think much of it. Until the night we were close to our first kill of the first boss there. Framerates dropped to a slideshow during the fight. I knew I had to stop, but I couldn't, when 25 people are so close to a kill we worked on for 2 weeks. In the end I couldn't see fuck, because of the 2-5 frames/sec framerate. I logged out, and checked my system.
My videocard and my CPU were both at 110C.
I switched off my PC immediately.
Then I noticed there was no waterflow through my coolingsystem.
After the system cooled off, and I cleaned out my waterblocks, the system did reboot. But after a few minutes I was getting artifacts on my screen. I suspected the videomemory had been fried. Also, the videocard later only started up with a black screen. I had to buy a GTX260 to replace my dead 8800GTX.
What was weird is: my Intel E8500 cpu also heated up to 110C. But that cpu never gave me problems. I'm still running it without any problems, 18 months later.
So watch out. You can still fry your videocard.
Fafhrd on 15/2/2010 at 09:19
That's more the fault of your water cooling system than the card's throttling, though. No amount of throttling will save a component if there's power going through it while there's no coolant flow, be it air or liquid.
bikerdude on 15/2/2010 at 17:43
Personally 85c under load is a the absolute max I'm willing to allow. I generall always have good airflow in my case and if need be I replace the thermal paste on the card with a High quality type etc. Or in a few cases I have replaced the cooler completely.
Aerothorn on 15/2/2010 at 21:45
I've only seen it go that high that one time (playing Borderlands right now, and it never goes above 78), so I'll leave it as-is for now (given that I'm crazy busy and don't have time to tinker with it unless there is pressing need.) I'll monitor on some other games and if it ever approaches 90 I'll post some pics and either activate some additional fans or buy other cooling components. Unfortunately the two unused remaining built-in fan ports aren't in ideal locations: one is blowing over the CPU, which is great except that the CPU runs cool and I can always turn up the speed on the CPU fan if that changes. The other blows onto hard drives and such, which again is kind of unnecessary in my current situation.
bikerdude on 16/2/2010 at 02:10
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
The other blows onto hard drives and such, which again is kind of unnecessary in my current situation.
It would be handy to see the layout as it is now...:p
Aerothorn on 28/2/2010 at 23:34
Blargh - during, of all things, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, it was consistently hanging around 94 degrees. Ouch. No apparent adverse effects yet, but that's no good.
Pictures coming tomorrow when there is natural lighting (as the artificial lighting in my room is not so hot).
bikerdude on 1/3/2010 at 02:06
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Pictures coming tomorrow when there is natural lighting
ok.
Aerothorn on 2/3/2010 at 18:05
So I have the photos, but I accidentally took them in high-resolution and I don't want to clog the forums with massive pics - what's a good program for shrinking the resolution of pictures? I'm such a noob when it comes to digital cameras.
P.S. I accidentlly broke one of my cathode lights in the process :(
bikerdude on 2/3/2010 at 18:12
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
What's a good program for shrinking the resolution of pictures? (
Just upload them to imageshack and the website will reduce them for you..
or drop me an email with them.
