Sapphire x800 gto - High Temps

[slaesche]

Hi,

I recently purchased a Sapphire x800 gto 256 board. Everything with it is great, except that I get extremely high temperatures on it.

AtiTool reports the core temperatures as being between 55-65 on normal load and it goes over 100 on high load. Ambient temperature is around 42 on normal load. I have tried taking off the cooling unit and re-applying high quality thermal paste several times with different application methods, but nothing seems to get the temperature down.

I am not overclocking the card, and in fact have clocked it down just to see if it makes a difference (it doesn't). Is anyone else having these types of readings on their GTO? What tempteratures are too hight for the r480 gpu core?

Cheers slaesche

[TownDrunk]

Holy Crap. 100? Is that celcius? I have an x800GTO2 w/ arctic silencer and it idles from 35-39C depending on ambient, and full load is 58-61C. I'm not sure about what these cards can handle but isnt 100C like 212F? That thing wont last long if those temps are right!

[slaesche]

Are you talking about ambient or core temperatures?

[slaesche]

Also, is your GTO2 a sapphire? What version of the arctic silencer do you use?

Cheers,

slaesche

[malware]

I have the sapphire x800gto......non GTO2, and temps are fine. Mine are:
idle: 34~36'C
load: 51~54'C
with stock hsf.......ambient temps are ~42'C load
When clocked at 510/1012....idle temps are almost the same ~36'C, load: ~71'C
Try atittool and look how the fan rpm controler and monitoring works? when reaching above 60'C the fan must be at about 64%.

[slaesche]

Even when I set the fan to run at 100% all of the time, it still doesn't push the temperature down. I just installed OCZ thermal paste, and it's running at 62 degrees celsius. Is it possible that the heat reading is incorrect? I felt the back of the board (underside of the card) and it is not that hot...

[koolpc]

Could be that the reading is not right. Possible that your ambient temp in the room etc is high? Is the fan working properly on the card?

[slaesche]

Update: Today I installed the Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5. Card maintains 32-36 degrees normal, ~50-60 load. The only thing I can liken the problems with is the terrible stock cooling unit that comes with this board.

slaesche

[Matan_BS]

I have also the same problem in my X800 GTO Ultimate

Samll garphic actions are raising the temp in 4-5 deg & at the end I reach above 92C
I also know that stable temp in Idale state is about 56C in my PC

I open a case to Sapphire but I think since it is a pasive cooling the avrage temps are arround 20-25 more

since silence was my main concern, I think I will buy a GlacialTech GT-F1 PCI 2 fans Cooler,
it is only 15DB, and it will probably help reduce the tempature.

Any way I am waiting for Sapphire answer for my problem.

Mat

[SyK1]

oh man u have a pretty high temp. I have an powercolor x800 gto with stock cooling and it's oc to 520/550 mhz and its idle is about 36-39 celsius and load 55-60 and i'm getting a new cooler an artic cooler silencer is it any good ?