Originally Posted by Telepavarion
Sapphire ATI Radeon 4860 (I think so, forget the number right now)
Mine running sometimes in a Raid with nUI+ with 25 Man Raidframes at 75°C.
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That would be much much too hot for me.
Are you running RivaTuner to set your fan speed to 60%? Not a lot of people are aware that most video card manufacturers sell their cards with the fan speed set at 30%. They do this because that speed is "quiet". Obviously, the faster the fans RPM the louder it's going to be, and they want to boast that their video cards are quiet. Some say that video cards are made to withstand excessive heat, but my feeling is the cooler you keep your card the longer it's going to last (especially the vid cards memory, which tends to be the culprit that overheats and over time ruins the card) and the better performance you're going to get.
You can set up RivaTuner two ways. One way is to set the fan at a fixed speed (I have my fan speed set to 60%. A little bit loud but after a bit you get use to it). Another way (I never learned how to do this part) is to set it up to automatically adjust the fan speed based on temperature.
In case you or anyone else wants it, here's both the download link for RivaTuner and a link to the guide showing you how to set the fan speed.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTune...nload-163.html
http://www.guru3d.com/article/rivatu...verclock-guide
I'm one of those odd people that like to run several pieces of software at once that tells me my computer temps. Out of the three I use, only Everest will show you both the video cards CPU
and memory temps (if your video card has thermistors to support it. Most of today's high end gaming cards do)... Everest is not free software, but it is very much worth the cash!
Everest:
http://www.lavalys.com/
HWMonitor:
http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
Speccy (from the people who make CCleaner):
http://www.piriform.com/speccy