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    what are your CF 5870 temps under full game load?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by daveh98, Apr 2, 2011.

  1. daveh98

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    Topic says it all. I thought I was running cool using the HW monitor but when I dl'ed HW32info sensor...im showing parts of one GPU die being up to 88. What is the normal range for these cards?
     
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    my primary card always hits 88-93 in most games, the second card is 8-10 degrees lower. In Metro 2033 I was hitting 103-108 degrees
     
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    Hmm Ok I guess it's normal then. Thanks for the input.
     
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    our stock thermal paste is not very good, doing repaste job could lower the temps pretty much. I tried running Furmark and in about a minute had to abort it because temp was going to be 110
     
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    When I was playing Drit 2 with everything set on Ultra, my primary card hit 81, and secondary card hit 79.

    I recommend getting a good laptop cooler. I use zalman nc 2000 (turned backwards).
     
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    with dirt2 i can get the temps up to 90.
     
    Necrotopsy, Apr 4, 2011
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