'Charles. C. Shyu' wrote, in part:
| Now I've found that if even a simple program like the 3D Pipes screensaver
| comes on, the temps jump to:
| Ambient temperatu 72 deg C
| GPU Co 112 deg C
| Slowdown threshold: 135 deg C
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The ambient temperature says it all. It is too high. The cooling solution
result depends on the ambient temperature. An ambient temperature (I assume
you mean temperature within the system case) is 30 to 40 C higher than it
should be (unless you are located deep in a South African gold mine.) It is
therefore only to be expected that the GPU temperature should be 30 to 40 C
higher than it should be. For your under load example, 112 C - (30 to 40 C)
= 82 to 72 C. Still high, but within reason. As 'ShutEye' posted, house
cleaning is in order (and perhaps a check to see if the case fans are
actually turning.

Phil Weldon

"Charles C. Shyu" wrote in message
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|A couple months ago I posted my 6800GT (inside a Dell XPS Gen 3, WinXP)
| temps (according to NVIDIA Control Panel):
| Ambient temperatu 56 deg C
| GPU Co 81 deg C
| Slowdown threshold: 135 deg C
|
| Now I've found that if even a simple program like the 3D Pipes screensaver
| comes on, the temps jump to:
| Ambient temperatu 72 deg C
| GPU Co 112 deg C
| Slowdown threshold: 135 deg C
|
| The numbers will quickly drop to "baseline" levels once the screensaver is
| stopped, and will spike again if the screensaver is activated. In the
| NVIDIA Control Panel, when the temp goes above 100 deg C or so it will be
| shown in yellow instead of green, presumably indicating that this is not a
| good temp to be running at.
|
| I haven't noticed any symptoms with my system (locking up, reboots) at
all,
| but surely this can't be normal operating temp, right? Perhaps the fan on
| the video card is malfunctioning? I did open up my case and de-dust the
| thing, but the temps haven't budged. What gives?
|
| Thanks!
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| Charles C. Shyu
| http://home.earthlink.net/~shyuc/shyu.html
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