Hi I have a VGA GIGABYTE GV-NX66T128 6600GT RT graphics card and was playing Guild Wars for a while and when I finished, my Everest Home Edition said that the GPU was 147F! I thought to myself, thats pretty hot though perhaps this is normal? The next hottest was the CPU running in the 90s. Would someone more knowledgable please advise.
does the videocard have a fan on it & what is the total # of fans in your computer including cpu & psu??
That is way to hot for a 6600Gt they normally idle at around 45c and at load it should be around 60c, check to see if your cards fan is working also what cpu are you using ...
Hi, thanks for the update and sorry about the lack on information. My computer consists of: AMD 64 3200+ ASUS A8N-SLI GIGABYTE GV-NX66T128 6600GT 1 GB Dual PC3200 DDR Antec SP-400 PSU Maxtor 120 GB HD(primary) Western Digital 37 GB HD(secondary) NEC DVD-RW ND-3540A JLMS XJ-HD163 DVD-ROM I opened up my case and am looking at the video card as I type, there is a copper colored enclosure with a fan in it and the fan is spinning. I have 2 case fans, one on front for intake and one on rear for exhaust. I just started my computer a few minutes ago and Everest says my GPU is currently running at 49c/120f. Based on jonni3's info, the idle temperature seems to be good. I hope this provides a more detailed picture of my computer, please advise, thank you.
try this link to see what it comes up with for temperature. does the videocard cd come with a temperature software. ground your self to the metal of your case & carefully touch the heatsink to feel the temperature. http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Are you reading your temps in F, if so then it all looks ok , if they were in C then worry...i kinda missed the "F" in your first post
I checked the manual for my video card and it does have software to monitor the temperature. I ran it and it lists the same temperature as Everest, currently at 49c. I downloaded SpeedFan and installed and on the first page of it, the temperature readings are, Temp1: 30C Temp2: 27C Temp3: 25C HD0: 27C Temp1: 40C All of those readings are preceded by a blue downward pointing arrow. I don't know what temperature reading corresponds to what component but the first thing that struck me is that none of those readings are 49c. If Everest says GPU 49c and the software that came with the video card says 49c, shouldn't there be a 49c in those readings? Perhaps something is reading the temperature wrong? Please advise. Anyways for the second part of your instructions, I touched the copper part and its cool, but I'm not doing much with the video card right now. I'm going to run Guild Wars for a little with the side of the case open and see how high the temperatures run. I'll post results later.
Ok, after a good 45 minutes of GW, here are various temperature readings, Everest Home Edition: GPU 71c Bundled VidCard Software: GPU 71c SpeedFan: Temp1: 40C Temp2: 27C Temp3: 30C HD0: 30C Temp1: 40C For Speedfan, all temps had a blue down arrow preceding it except for HD0 which had a green check mark. I touched the copper heatsink on the vid card and it felt warm to the touch. All of this was with the side of the case open. Please advise is this normal or no? I'll close the case and try it again and will post.
Round 2: another 45 minutes of GW with the case closed, here are various temperature readings, Everest Home Edition: GPU 66c Bundled VidCard Software: GPU 66c SpeedFan: Temp1: 44C Temp2: 30C Temp3: 31C HD0: 30C Temp1: 40C For SpeedFan, Temp1 and HD0 had green check marks while the others had the downward pointing blue arrow. What do those things mean anyways? BTW, there was a typo on my previous post with the case open, the Everest Home Edition and the bundled VidCard software should have been 61c, not 71c. Normal? Please advise
2 of 3 programs give the same reading which is a good indicator as is when touching the heatsink & was warm to the touch not hot to the touch. the gpu does run hotter than the cpu. if worried about videocard temp than get 2 agp slot fans to sandwich the card to pull the hot air from the videocard.
