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    7811 gpu can take a beating

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Stink, Jan 19, 2009.

  1. Stink

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    I was playing Company of Heroes on my bed and had 2 dvd cases under the back of my laptop and it is usually fine like that. It was a 3v3 map with lots of action that lasted well over two hours, and about three times during this it downclocked. It was online and I didn't want to move so I just lifted the back of the laptop up for about five seconds until it went back to normal. Eventually I put my hand over the gpu vent and it was so hot I couldn't even touch it so I downsized CoH and checked the gpu temp 107C! and that was about 15 seconds after downsizing. So if you have a 7811 or any fx with a 9800m gts don't ever worry about overheating and melting the gpu.
     
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    Or you have a super duper, triple deluxe, evil, freakish, mutant, frankenstein GPU. Either way you scored big time. I have an FX with GPU temps between 37*C and 48*C. My opinion is you got extremely lucky, and I got extremely unlucky. happy gaming
     
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  3. madmook

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    If those are your gpu temps when gaming then it is YOURS that is the super duper one.

    P.S. to the op, those are NOT safe temps and it is not advisable to keep bringing them up that high.

    P.P.S. It has occured to me that tracy's post could be one of sarcasm... in which case HAR HAR
     
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    Congratulations OP, you just shortened the life of your hardware! Thats pretty incredible tho 107C stable..good to know as my 7811 is on the way as we speak!
     
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  5. Stink

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    I have never seen it get that high before ever highest I ever saw it was at around 83C on crysis warhead on the ice map. It was so high because it was close to my bed I was just saying don't worry about overheating it can handle it since you hear a lot about high temps.
     
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    you should've flipped it over and cooked an egg on it.
     
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    cool to hear, but shouldn't the temperature safe-guards be shutting it down at the point? or is the limit higher?
     
    Jakamo5, Jan 19, 2009
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  8. Stink

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    I made smores on it, and I was thinking that to why didn't it do something about it a little more extreme then downclocking for 5 seconds. Also is there anything else it should have done?
     
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    hmm.. it will eventually shutdown your system.
     
    E-wrecked, Jan 20, 2009
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    You got lucky man. I'll agree that the 9800m gts is no wimp, but mine got up to 94C (when running a screensaver), and now I get artifacts and other weird glitches. My general rule is that if it goes over 70, it's working hard. If it goes over 80, keep an eye on it. If it goes over 90, then you have a problem.
     
    gamadaya, Jan 20, 2009
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