Hey guys.
I realize that I have posted something about this once before on another post, but it has faded away into the past. This post will be more detailed and elaborate than the other one, and I really need some help with this. I recently bought a Gigabyte 6600 GT 128 MB AGP card (the model number is "N66T128D") and I have been having a few temperature problems with it. Before I get started, let me layout my case for you. I have two exhaust fans in the back, one intake in the front (blowing onto my hard drives), and one intake on the side (blowing onto my memory sticks and CPU). I also have a nifty little PCI exhaust fan that I have put right under the memory card (the fan from the card is blowing into the intake fan on the PCI exhaust fan, and they are about 1.5 inches apart).
Now for the temperature statistics. Right now at this second, my card is reading 58 degrees Celcius. I have not been playing games and my computer has been on for a maximum of 5 minutes. Before that time, I took my card out and inspected it to make sure everything looked right, and everything seemed to be okay. The fan's power was plugged in, and nothing was misplaced or damaged in any way. I made sure that I plugged the 4 pin power cord into the back of the card, and it is in tightly. When I play games, which are usually either Tribes: Vengeance, Far Cry, Sacred, or Halo, the temperature of the video card will work its way to about a whopping 85 degrees Celcius. I played Halo about 30 minutes ago for about 10 minutes to make sure of this, and I left the temperature monitor for my video card (the gauge where you right-click your desktop, select NVIDIA display, and then go to temperature settings), and the temperature reads 84 degrees Celcius. Of course, when I realized this, I immediately closed the game and inspected my card to make sure everything was okay, because I had been having temperature problems since I first received my card. I have this card running at a 500 MHz core clock speed and a 1000 MHz memory clock speed, which are the stock settings. I lowered the speeds significantly to see if that helped, and it did, but only by about 3-6 degrees. That means that I was getting about a 52 degree idle temperature and a 79 degree load temperature. I know for sure that this is not the temperature that ANY video card should be running at.
If you need any more information, then please let me know and I'll try to get it to you. Sorry about the long post, but I tried to think of everything that I could so that you may be able to figure this annoying and possibly card-threatening problem.
Thanks so much for your help!
-Jamxx
I realize that I have posted something about this once before on another post, but it has faded away into the past. This post will be more detailed and elaborate than the other one, and I really need some help with this. I recently bought a Gigabyte 6600 GT 128 MB AGP card (the model number is "N66T128D") and I have been having a few temperature problems with it. Before I get started, let me layout my case for you. I have two exhaust fans in the back, one intake in the front (blowing onto my hard drives), and one intake on the side (blowing onto my memory sticks and CPU). I also have a nifty little PCI exhaust fan that I have put right under the memory card (the fan from the card is blowing into the intake fan on the PCI exhaust fan, and they are about 1.5 inches apart).
Now for the temperature statistics. Right now at this second, my card is reading 58 degrees Celcius. I have not been playing games and my computer has been on for a maximum of 5 minutes. Before that time, I took my card out and inspected it to make sure everything looked right, and everything seemed to be okay. The fan's power was plugged in, and nothing was misplaced or damaged in any way. I made sure that I plugged the 4 pin power cord into the back of the card, and it is in tightly. When I play games, which are usually either Tribes: Vengeance, Far Cry, Sacred, or Halo, the temperature of the video card will work its way to about a whopping 85 degrees Celcius. I played Halo about 30 minutes ago for about 10 minutes to make sure of this, and I left the temperature monitor for my video card (the gauge where you right-click your desktop, select NVIDIA display, and then go to temperature settings), and the temperature reads 84 degrees Celcius. Of course, when I realized this, I immediately closed the game and inspected my card to make sure everything was okay, because I had been having temperature problems since I first received my card. I have this card running at a 500 MHz core clock speed and a 1000 MHz memory clock speed, which are the stock settings. I lowered the speeds significantly to see if that helped, and it did, but only by about 3-6 degrees. That means that I was getting about a 52 degree idle temperature and a 79 degree load temperature. I know for sure that this is not the temperature that ANY video card should be running at.
If you need any more information, then please let me know and I'll try to get it to you. Sorry about the long post, but I tried to think of everything that I could so that you may be able to figure this annoying and possibly card-threatening problem.
Thanks so much for your help!
-Jamxx