6600GT temperatures

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Is the sensor on the GPU die?

Has anyone checked their load/idle temperatures? And has anyone noticed the 'core slowdown threshold' temperature to be set at 145C? That seems like a mistake to me...

@Stock
My 6600GT
Idles @ 42C
Load @ 44C
via Ati tool

 

[Eva_Unit_0]

yeah the sensor is in the die itself, built into the chip.

And no, that high threshold isn't wrong...that's correct. GPU's can withstand much higher temps than cpu's can...notice how high end video cards routinely run 80-90C under load? Modern CPU's could never do that.