8800 Ultra Cooling Methods

[MightyDiomed]

Hey guys, I've got an 8800 Ultra sitting in a Tagan CS-EL Diablo case. 8800 Ultras has the stock EVGA HSF on it as well, it's not overclocked or anything. Now, it idles at about 70c, with a case temp at 50c. When it gets to full load, it can get as hot as 105c and 60c case temp...I recently bought a antec VGA cooler and stuck it right on the thing, directly behind the HSF and it really didn't even reduce the load temp by more then 3-5c.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this thing runs so hot, or is this a normal temp for the Ultra?

 

[omz]

Hey guys, I've got an 8800 Ultra sitting in a Tagan CS-EL Diablo case. 8800 Ultras has the stock EVGA HSF on it as well, it's not overclocked or anything. Now, it idles at about 70c, with a case temp at 50c. When it gets to full load, it can get as hot as 105c and 60c case temp...I recently bought a antec VGA cooler and stuck it right on the thing, directly behind the HSF and it really didn't even reduce the load temp by more then 3-5c.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this thing runs so hot, or is this a normal temp for the Ultra?

The 8800 cards tend to run pretty hot. My 8800GTX runs about 90C at load and even that scares me. However, if you want to bring down your temps, the best thing to do would slap on a 3rd party cooler. The two that I know fit the 8800 series is the Arctic Cooling Extreme and the Zalman 1000. From what I remember, the AC Extreme seems to do a better job.