Gf4 temps

[Farabomb]

I just picked me up a PNY Ti 4200. All in all I love it. The package was really lean (the card, the book, and a CD) but for $199.00 it's not too bad.

So now I have my first Nvidia card. I dropped it in and got 10678 with my system @190. That more than doubles my scores with my Radeon :) Right after that I busted out the O/C tools and went at it. I tried Riva tuner first and had a little trouble with it so I want to Power strip and got it to 305/630 (see 3D mark link in sig) Anything higher and I get artifacts. The only thing that's bothering me is that I'm reading 53c with my digidoc then playing JK2 :eek: Ok, now to me that's pretty fargon hot. Before I even put it into my box I took the hsf off the card and lapped it and put some AS3 on it and I know the temp probe is on the core.

I can't seem to find any info on Nvida's site on safe temps but I'm still a little worried when my GPU's hotter than my CPU. Then again the pal8045 is a wee bigger than the Nvidia reference HSF ;) I have a blorb sitting around here. Would I be better off using that? I see VisionTech uses them on their 4200's. Thanks.

[mdzcpa]

No problem with the GPU temp M8:) The typical air cooled GF4s are in the low 50's air cooled loaded. So you're right in line:)

To be honest, the stock HSF units suck...but they are better than nothing. You could always put a crystal orb on it for a marginal improvement...but then you would need to make sure you get some kind of air flow over the memory as the stock HSF does direct a small amount of airflow over those mem chips.

[Farabomb]

I have a Antec with 2 intake and 2 exaust fans nevermind the 2 in the TruePower so I have good airflow. It's hard to sleep with it on somtimes but :D I have a blue orb here and I'm going to put it on and see what I get with that. Maybe when I go to the computer show and pick up a used 21" I'll get a crystal orb or maybe a vantec copper cooler. It depends on how much money I have left ;)

[Player0]

I thought i responded to this earlier, but guess not :)

The blue orb won't do anything more than the stock cooler, as its not very good. Maybe if you lap it. Anyway, youd have to glue it to the GF4 cause I dont beleive the mounting holes with alighn

The crystal orb is better, but I prefer standard 50mm copper hsfs.