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Article #716648Re: hot video card
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:14
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:14
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Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address> wrote: >Anyway, I had Asus' monitoring program running today. After 30 minutes >of running Civ 5 the gpu temperature had gone from a happy 43 degrees >Celsius to 70+ .... it took only less than 2 minutes to drop to 42 after >I shut Civ 5 down. As Rin said that's a normal temperature for a video card when playing a game. Depending on your video card I'd only worry if it goes above 80-85 degrees though there are high-end cards were that's normal. In a properly designed and cooled system there should be nothing a game can do to damage your video card. Video cards are designed to run full out at high temperatures. If there's adequate ventalation in the case, and it doesn't take much, then the fans on the video card will be able to keep it from overheating. (Modern cards will also try to protect themselves from overheating by throttling down and if that fails shutting down, so you should get some warning before any permanent damage happens.) Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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