125C!!!

[nate794]

Im sure this is a wrong temp but, it freaked me out at first. It would be on fire if it was that hot! :angry2:

 

Is the gpu temp to high??

Edited April 26, 2009 by nate794

[maj0rgamer]

hey, welcome to the occ forum;

 

that temp is probably a result of a bad sensor... seems fairly common actually.

 

anything under 100C for a gpu should be fine, but the cooler the better of course.

 

occt is an excellent temp monitoring program and it's free... it can be downloaded here.

Edited April 26, 2009 by Maj0r Gamer

[scr4wl]

W3lc0m3 t0 th3 0cc

 

what Major gamer said is all correct.

[nate794]

if its a bad censor what component is it on? JW

[Zertz]

Yes, it is too high. Is it a passively cooled card?

 

If not, consider cleaning up the fan and reseat the heatsink while you're at it. Also try improving the airflow inside your case

[nate794]

well right now im using the on board video lol

ran out of money

[Great_Gig]

Isn't that Temp for the Northbridge chipset which includes the 780a video? And if you are using onboard video and working your graphics, your temps could be above 100 degrees, but that does seem high?

Edited April 26, 2009 by Great_Gig

[cchalogamer]

I'll go take a quick look at the temps on my 780A and see if it uses the same sensors and if so what they are.

 

EDIT: Not the same sensor, but interesting findings anyway. I can't figure out what it might be...I fired up the X4 system (was off due to heat) and it was reading low for "TMPIN2" then it slowly went up to the 30C range. After letting it start GPU folding not much changed, though SMP folding kicked up the heat. The only thing that I noticed that seemed to heat up accordingly based on the "finger test" was the heatsink over the CPU power regulation. So you may want to look into that on your board.

 

(Ignore the extra black area, that's the "extended" desktop area for the other monitors that don't exist for the GPU2 client)

 

On a side note, I bet it's your CPU doing it...you should trade CPUs with me and that'll fix your problem

Edited April 26, 2009 by cchalogamer

[nate794]

Ive touched all the heat sinks none of them are really hot.

[cchalogamer]

See the above edit, also if they arent warm under load they aren't doing their job. The idea of a heatsink is to pull heat away from something. Though if not under load then that's not much to go on.

[Great_Gig]

Hmm, your northbridge heatsink is normally hot to the touch, certainly on the boards I have it is. Maybe as said ^, if it's not drawing heat away, then your northbridge could be overheating. Maybe you need to check that and ensure it's seated correctly and maybe take it off and reapply with some good thermal paste like Arctic Silver 5?

 

My testbed rig uses onboard video and the northbridge gets hot, around 85-90 degrees at times, so if yours is not set right that could be it?

Edited April 26, 2009 by Great_Gig

[nate794]

Eh, i found out its just a dead sensor