7600 gt question.

[Kanaric]

I removed the fan and applied some arctic silver and put it back on. The hardware monitor for the video card says its idling at 32 C... is this right or is there something wrong with the readout?

I can only remember as far back as my Geforce 2 as far as temps are concerned but i've never seen a video card run this cool with stock fan. My last one (bfg 6800 gt agp) idled 50-60, for example.

 

[pxc]

Which program are you using to read it? You might be looking at the ambient temperature sensor, not the GPU temperature.

32C isn't impossible if you are running at a low speed 2D clock rate (with mobile power management enabled, for example) and a low ambient temperature. In a closed case my overclocked 7600GT is running at 47C right now.

 

[Kanaric]

Which program are you using to read it? You might be looking at the ambient temperature sensor, not the GPU temperature.

32C isn't impossible if you are running at a low speed 2D clock rate (with mobile power management enabled, for example) and a low ambient temperature. In a closed case my overclocked 7600GT is running at 47C right now.

it was the nvidia monitor in its control panel.

I havn't had time to stress test it so this is just idle at desktop. I did run 1 round of HL2 stress test and it was 36 after that.