6800xt temp

bratton

bratton

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I've been running this on my girlfriends system until I build my own, and it was idling at 58C. Maybe it's just her system, or the summer. I wanted to know if I should get better cooling for it?

On a side note... I got curious and took off the heatsink/fan. Am I going to have to reapply paste now? If not, how big will the affects be?
 
yes you'll need to reapply the thermal paste.
58 isnt a dangerous temp, but i'd look into why its so hot.
the effects depend on what you did. if you touched the surface then it definitely needs replacing. personally i would replace it either way. be careful because video card heatsinks are tough to put back on especially because the ram on a video card needs special gap fillers. i used AS5 on my 7800gt and ceramique (another arctic silver product) on the ram because theres a gap between the heatsink and the ram and you cant use regular thermal compound on it.
 
Well, I knew well enough not to touch the paste. I wish I would have known better to have toyed with it in the first place.
I don't really understand the process of applying when you need to fill a gap.
---I think I'll need this explained to me step by step just to be sure of what I should be doing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/Bratton/vid001.jpg
under what appears to be unevenly spread white goop, is a black square...thing, which has the white goop also around the sides of it.
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thats the just the heatsink/fan

could i possibly just put the suckers back together and let break in continue? the thing has only run maybe 12 hours all at idle (unfortunately at 58c)
 
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It's not that hard.

Just wipe off the old paste with isopropyl alcohol, and put a pea size of thermal compound on it and reapply the heatsink.
 
Take a plastic bag and put your finger in it so you can apply the paste without directly touching the paste which is not good

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Ignore the cannabis

This is the amount you should put

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and dont do it like this, rub it from edge to edge

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Another theory is that you don't spread it at all, since the heatsink will spread it out itself.Then there isn't a chance for any air pockets.
 
Jet said:
Another theory is that you don't spread it at all, since the heatsink will spread it out itself.Then there isn't a chance for any air pockets.
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I seriously doubt it could spread it all, it could but then you would have to put the heatsink on the cpu under a perfect angle and the paste would have to be perfectly in the middle, I somehow don't buy that theory.

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58C at idle is not perfectly normal, under load...for some cards, yes.
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I would say it a bit high for an idle temp too, mine was around 35°C in cold winter days and now it's 45°C.
 
bratton said:
I've been running this on my girlfriends system until I build my own, and it was idling at 58C. Maybe it's just her system, or the summer. I wanted to know if I should get better cooling for it?
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Might be a misreading, but if your not experiencing any odd behavior when your stressing the card your fine. Besides, the card has the ability to throttle itself.

P11 said:
58C at idle is not perfectly normal
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For some cards it is perfectly normal using stock cooling and voltage, such as the R580.

P11 said:
under load...for some cards, yes.
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Most cards hit mid 50's under heavy load, others 90c. Dont confuse GPU's with CPU's. :)
 
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Thanks for all the input. I'll get around to buying some ceramique and then hopefully everything will be fine once I apply it properly...which evga couldn't seem to do. :P
 
filip-matijevic said:
Ignore the cannabis
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LOL. Couldn't find a picture of an empty baggy on google?:D

My card idles at 48, which I would say is quite high. I'm planning on buying an after market fan, if you've already taken the heatsink off, you could get a fan for it to cool things down for a bit. They come with thermal paste, don't they?
 
I don't know what comes with what, seeing as the next few months will be my first time building a computer. Though, I would much rather not have to spend $20+ on a better fan/heatsink at this time.
 
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