9800GTX+ 90C too high?

[Darkgundam111]

Overclocked it to 800/1910/1250 and hits 90 in furmark. that too high?

anyone know if the ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler will fit on the 9800GTX+?

any good coolers for this card?

[[Ion]]

Definitely too high. Don't let it get above 80C, that's my limit for all of my cards.

The Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 9800 would be a great choice. Huge, cool, and quiet

[theonedub]

What temps do you see in normal usage?

90C is still within the thermal limits of the GPU, but its a little hot for my tastes for 24/7 use. I had a Galaxy 9800GTX+ that had the weakest fan I have ever seen and it ran into the high 80s low 90s folding. Adding a fan blowing down the length of the card and out the back of the case lowered temps dramatically.

Low to mid 80s daily use while gaming or what have you is acceptable to me.

[Easy Rhino]

that is actually not bad. i have a 9800gtx+ and when i was overclocking it it would hit 90c steady. wasnt a big deal.

[AthlonX2]

those are normal temps your running furmark

[Darkgundam111]

hmm yeah i figured since this is furmark, that it would hit this high, but normally speaking on games and such it probably won't hit that high. I will have to do further testing with games to see. Thanks for the advices, but I am thinking about just volt modding this thing and placing a aftermarket cooler on this to see what kinda fun i could get outta this. Perhaps a new card after

newegg doesn't carry the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 9800 anymore
I might jsut try using the vf900 on it, i googled around and seems to work on this card. Just need to get some heatsinks for the ram and mofset.

[Hayder_Master]

i see thous temps are a bit high, and i guess this cooler some kind old so if u try to clean it well and better if u think about replace the thermal paste if u have good one it will be cool. other wise i don't advice to buy new cooler cuz i don't see this card worth a cooler for 30$ or 40$.

[Darkgundam111]

yeah probably not a new cooler, just the old vf900 i have in the old computer. where to get some cheap ram heatsinks? does the mofset really need heat sinks on it?

[HXL492]

mofsets generally don't require heatsinks. Too me I would only add them if I were to overclock

[pantherx12]

Originally Posted by HXL492

mofsets generally don't require heatsinks. Too me I would only add them if I were to overclock

*head explodes*

On high end cards they do, they get insanely hot, hot enough to burn skin without a heatsink to dissipate the energy D:

[hat]

That seems rather high for a stock cooler. My GTX260 doesn't even get that hot in furmark. Try manually setting the fan speed to 80% in evga precision and see what it does.

[Darkgundam111]

the temps that i mentioned was with the fan at 100%

I probably need heatsinks on the mofsets then, since i was thinking about overclocking. maybe i should forget about it altogether and just get me a new card, would be less work :P

[cheezburger]

Originally Posted by Darkgundam111

Overclocked it to 800/1910/1250 and hits 90 in furmark. that too high?

anyone know if the ZALMAN VF900 – CU 2 Ball VGA Cooler will fit on the 9800GTX+?

any good coolers for this card?

clean the dust.....zalman isn't any better than reference as it heavily depending on case airflow. just clean the cooler and you're be fine

[Darkgundam111]

I already cleaned out the card yesterday, completely putting in new thermal compound and freeing it of dust entirely. the zalman is great, i used it on my 8600GT back in the day (volt modded it and pushed it pretty darn far but still had very very good temps compared to stock cooler).

[cheezburger]

Originally Posted by Darkgundam111

I already cleaned out the card yesterday, completely putting in new thermal compound and freeing it of dust entirely. the zalman is great, i used it on my 8600GT back in the day (volt modded it and pushed it pretty darn far but still had very very good temps compared to stock cooler).

stock cooler are depending on your case fan setup. in most of case GPU overheat was because the case fan push the hot air in opposite direction. while to open cooler like zalman are just need more cool air from outside of case but also you need an expansive good airflow case too.