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xdviper

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my videocard is the radeon 300x se with a heatsink w/o any fan
Is ATI really stupid for not putting a fan on a videocard like this?
i was playing doom3 for maybe 2 hours with high settings, 800x600 on this computer.
and i got a little bored so i touched the heatsink on the videocard and it burned my hand REALLY BAD!!!.. ouch.. like i touched a a hot pan. Can this much heat really fcuk up the videocard? because i think ATI was really fcuking stupid for not putting a fan on this videocard.

PS: air flow is good in my case. :)
 
xdviper said:
my videocard is the radeon 300x se with a heatsink w/o any fan
Is ATI really stupid for not putting a fan on a videocard like this?
i was playing doom3 for maybe 2 hours with high settings, 800x600 on this computer.
and i got a little bored so i touched the heatsink on the videocard and it burned my hand REALLY BAD!!!.. ouch.. like i touched a a hot pan. Can this much heat really fcuk up the videocard? because i think ATI was really fcuking stupid for not putting a fan on this videocard.

PS: air flow is good in my case. :)
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Um.. unless it's getting artifacts it's fine.
Video cards can run 70-80C i.e 158F to 186F and be A ok.
 
70-80C will pretty much cause burning/blistering. Hot tap water is maybe 60C tops.

30-40C is only 90-100F which I've lived in for quit a while. Now living in 50C days for weeks on end SUCKS. Having to go out to a make sure a well is working in 60C weather is worse (I say let the farking cows die).

-tReP
 
I had a Radeon 9600 (same architecture as X300 except 9600 is AGP while x300 is PCI-E) with a passive aluminum heatsink on it. It overclocked from 325 MHz core to 400 core with that same passive heatsink on it. Granted, I did put a fan in the PCI slot immediately below it, but it still worked fine passively cooled. Radeon 9600/x300 is fabbed on a pretty solid 130 nano low-k process, it doesn't put out much heat for the work it's doing. I wouldn't worry about it unless it starts hard locking/giving you VPU recover messages, which I don't anticipate happening.

BTW, if you're still playing D3, have a look at Nvidia 6600GT based boards - they can play D3 in 1600x1200 for only $200 on PCI Express. My AGP one works great.
 
Solution: stop grabbing video cards. What burns your fingers doesn't necessarily damage components, so it's a bad "test".
 
DougLite said:
I had a Radeon 9600 (same architecture as X300 except 9600 is AGP while x300 is PCI-E) with a passive aluminum heatsink on it. It overclocked from 325 MHz core to 400 core with that same passive heatsink on it. Granted, I did put a fan in the PCI slot immediately below it, but it still worked fine passively cooled. Radeon 9600/x300 is fabbed on a pretty solid 130 nano low-k process, it doesn't put out much heat for the work it's doing. I wouldn't worry about it unless it starts hard locking/giving you VPU recover messages, which I don't anticipate happening.

BTW, if you're still playing D3, have a look at Nvidia 6600GT based boards - they can play D3 in 1600x1200 for only $200 on PCI Express. My AGP one works great.
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I think the x600 was the 9600 equiv. in PCI-E.
the x300 is a majorly cut down version of same.
 
Rollo said:
Solution: stop grabbing video cards. What burns your fingers doesn't necessarily damage components, so it's a bad "test".
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lol, my instructor is kind of old scool. He says to touch your neck, where the artery is and then touch the chip, they should be the same temperature. If not they are overheating. I just kind of ignore him, lol.

But you could always just rig a fan on there. I don't use my PCI so I just took off the PCI covers and twist tied a 90MM fan where the covers were, works great on drawing the heat out:)
 
If you were to keep the chip cool, you could probably get a very good overclock out of it, why don't you give it a go, you've got nothing to lose - the chance of actually breaking a video card is very small unless you plan on voltmodding it.
 
i had a 9600 pro and i hated the heatsink on it..i took it off one day and i had the fan going on a battery and my thumb could heat up the heatsink... the coolers are worthless..im pretty sure you could run the 9600 without a heatsink... i inturn modded a 9800XT cooler on it and flashed it to 9600XT and i saw a great increase in heat. I feel that if you want to cool you computer...DO IT...if things are getting hot get cooling on it as fast as possible. Because it can inturn make your whole ccase hot ande then your room...like my 6800Ultra.. :rolleyes:
 
Personally I wouldn't allow anything that hot to not have a fan attached to it. This card might be slated for passive cooling but remember that heat kills. Even in this scenario heat can't be great for the card even if that's what it's modus operandi is.

Furthermore, all that heat in one spot can't be good for the rest of your components. I would slap a fan on that beast and be done with it.
 
how would you guys recamend me cooling the videocard?
i might buy a pci exuast blower for it
fan
 
X300's generate very little heat. Mine has a very puny (and I mean puny) heatsink, with a fan. The fan is dead already, but the card is still chugging along happily at 470/250 (Except on hot days, like 30C+). I have very good airflow in my case, though.
 
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