card always high temp

legluondunet · 01-04-11, 06:33 PM

Hello,

I would like to know if it is normal that my card is always minimum at 75-80° degree centigrade idle on ubuntu and 95-100 when I'm playing?

My config:

Ubuntu Maverick

Thanks for your help.

LGDN

joegiampaoli · 01-04-11, 09:50 PM

Games are very GPU demanding if they are very graphical, so to my knowledge that temperature should be safe during the game, once you close the game or any high demanding video application temperature should go lower.

drhirsch · 01-05-11, 02:43 AM

My 8800 GS (16 shaders less, but with an healthy overclock instead) was around 45 at idle and at most 70 during furmark.

BTW your sig doesn't match your system anymore (still running beryl 0.2? :-))

artem · 01-05-11, 03:10 AM

If you have a closed case, if you have a stock NVIDIA GPU, then these temperatures are normal.

If you don't play often, run this command during X session initialization (obviously you need to install nvclock utility):

Code:

[ -d /proc/driver/nvidia ] && nvclock -f -m 200 -n 200

(You can safely add it to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup).

This command lowers you GPU core and RAM clocks. These values are only tested to work on 8800GT class GPUs.

01-04-11, 06:33 PM	#1
legluondunet Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 28	card always high temp Hello, I would like to know if it is normal that my card is always minimum at 75-80° degree centigrade idle on ubuntu and 95-100 when I'm playing? My config: Ubuntu Maverick Thanks for your help. LGDN __________________ LGDN. config: Ubuntu nVidia Geforce 8800 GT resolution 1650x1080

01-04-11, 09:50 PM	#2
joegiampaoli Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 23	Re: card always high temp Games are very GPU demanding if they are very graphical, so to my knowledge that temperature should be safe during the game, once you close the game or any high demanding video application temperature should go lower.

01-05-11, 02:43 AM	#3
drhirsch Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 61	Re: card always high temp My 8800 GS (16 shaders less, but with an healthy overclock instead) was around 45 at idle and at most 70 during furmark. BTW your sig doesn't match your system anymore (still running beryl 0.2? :-))

01-05-11, 03:10 AM	#4
artem Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 678	Re: card always high temp If you have a closed case, if you have a stock NVIDIA GPU, then these temperatures are normal. If you don't play often, run this command during X session initialization (obviously you need to install nvclock utility): Code: [ -d /proc/driver/nvidia ] && nvclock -f -m 200 -n 200 (You can safely add it to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup). This command lowers you GPU core and RAM clocks. These values are only tested to work on 8800GT class GPUs.