How warm should a 9800 Pro get???

Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
edited June 2004 in Hardware
I recently scarffed a 9800 Pro and it has benn running for the past week with no problems with the CAT 3.7's that I am using for reference to further testing. It will score over 6000 in 3DMark03 and over 40,000 in Aquamark3D (same drivers).

The thing I am wondering about is that the card feels very warm all over and I don't recall how warm my previous 9800 Pro got. It is probably nothing but I wanted to check and see if there was a potential problem.

TIA
Larry

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    mine gets very warm as well.
    I'm sure you have the gpu watercooled larry but you may want to consider some ram sinks perhaps ...just a thought. These will probably be the ones I get when I go wc http://www.svc.com/cobgarachhe.html as ramsinks for video.
    Are you oc'ing the 9800pro and how much.
    Also ...you didnt get the 128 bit card did you?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Chris,
    Thanks, that's what I was hoping to hear. As for not being the 128 bit card.....I know I wouldn't have scored what I did @ stock speed with one of those. :D I guess I am just being a little more cautious these days. ;)
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    cool ...well thanks to you I just placed an order and found them cheaper at newegg (no shipping) $18.00 flat!!!

    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-126-051&depa=0
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    My 9800xt hits 60'c when it's loaded up :eek: according to ATI, that is normal temperature....
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    My 9800xt hits 60'c when it's loaded up :eek: according to ATI, that is normal temperature....

    WOW!!! :wow:
    Now that's hot. It looks like a good reason to do further modding of my W/C (move the rad to the outside rear of the case and yes I am going to cut the front bezel of my nice new case. Then with some of those ramsinks Chris found at Newegg I will turn this thing up.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    csimon wrote:
    cool ...well thanks to you I just placed an order and found them cheaper at newegg (no shipping) $18.00 flat!!!

    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-126-051&depa=0
    Thanks!!!

    I'm going to get some of those myself. They look cool!

    BTW

    I got the card used. I traded my 9600 Pro and a Seagate 40 gig HD for it.
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