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My card temps, dangerous?

csidle

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Your graphic card Upper Temperature Limit is : 125 C.

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HERE I BEGIN PLAYING HALF-LIFE 2 (SINGLEPLAYER) (ALL SETTINGS ON HIGH, 1280*1024, 2xAA)

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My card is a BFG 7900GT OC.

Do I need to get a new cooling system? If so, could I talk to BFG about them installing or something?
 

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No, your fine.
 
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my ati 1900 card runs 88c under load.. do u recon i should contact ati about sending me a better cooler.. he he

only kidding.. whoops..

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ps.. mind u there are some long threads elswhere about BFG 7900GT OC cards and similar suffering premature deaths.. soooo who knows..
 

csidle

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So ill be good with these temps, no probs? wen playing bf2 I got as high as 71 !!
 

Azn Tr14dZ

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That's fine, since your max is around 65.
 
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no problemo
if you have over 70 then you realy need to clean you card's air intake at the front of the card not the backplate but the other side ^^
my temp goes down from 62 to 40 when i clean out all the dirt etc
 

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You are perfectly fine with those temps, hell my old X850 PRO went to 72*C. What program are you using to record the temps?
 

Azn Tr14dZ

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It's from ATI Tool most likely. In ATI Tool, when you go to settings, there's an option where you can write your temps to a log file.
 
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