Quick question: 9800gx2 reaching 97 degrees

Quick question: 9800gx2 reaching 97 degrees after 5 minutes of Furmark in stability mode windowed (not full screen)

That means the videocard is **** up right ?

EDIT: forgot to add that the video card fan is manually setup at 100%

If that's 97 degrees Celsius, then yes you have a problem. If it's 97 degrees Fahrenheit, then no, it's within normal temperature range. If it's 97 degrees Kelvin, then you've got quite the cooling system.

Yup , its Celsius, and if I let it working (with furmark) it can reach 100+ degress celsius easily. I guess I will RMA again and hope to get one working correctly or some credit back.

Thank you.

Malevolence

what kind of cooling/air flow do you have in that case? Good air flow can drop temperatures 20 degrees at times.....

from what i've gathered, that operating temperature is normal, so you don't really need to RMA anything.

electronic components can withstand temperatures upwards of 125C, although it's usually not a good idea to let it come to that.

The maximum core temperature before throttling kicks in on the 9800GX2 is 105C. Your card is fine, and will continue to operate normally. The 9800GX2 cores are extremely heavily cobalt doped, and can withstand very high temperatures before they start to experience SiDeg. If your card reaches 105, it will throttle itself automatically, and if it reaches 117C, it will begin to reach a range where it may be damaged. At 125, you risk structural failure of the pMOS, so that is the temperature you must not hit. Anything 105C and below is absolutely normal.

In Australia, we tend to take the matter of heat pretty seriously.. For myself, after years of gaming and several near system killing driver releases from both Nvidia and ATi, I've become rather fond of Riva Tuner, a neat little app that gives you a serious amount of control over your hardware. My main reason for using it, is simple. From time to time, both of these companies like to release drivers with fan control that, um, well, doesn't work.

From memory, the most recent was the very latest Nvidia official release, 196.75, which Nvidia themselves have stopped releasing and rolled back to the previous version. Because I have Riva Tuner, I am still safely and happily running the 196.75 driver, with the fan control set to 100% at all times.

My partners laptop is running an ATi, which is also kept nice and safe with Riva Tuner, which can be got from Guru3d. Google it if you're interested, or just want more control over your card than CCC or Nvidia Control Panel has to offer.

One word of warning, read the instructions that come with it, and don't do anything it advises you not to. Better still, check out the section for the app in the Guru3d forums.

Hi, yeah I have Riva Tuner and EVGA Precision , on both softwares I have my fan at 100% . The GPU temp goes high and quick unlike the previous 9800gx2 I had , and the max temp it reached was 76 C . This time the one I got, have 100C in 8 minutes (Stability test , windowed, no AA) and 15 minutes is around 117C , all this using only 1 GPU. I believe the chip is damaged already because after 20 minutes of gaming (Guild wars or any other game) the computer crash.

I changed my motherboard from the faulty XFX 790i to a Asus P5P43TD PRO (only 1 PCIE slot) and did run prime95 for more than 12 hours of stress test and no errors messages (I will post screens later) , so I can say Processor and memory are ok.

The computer crash only when gaming.

EDIT: I have a Cooler master HAF 932 case with very good airflow and cable management.

based on all you have said it's likely that the GPU is indeed malfunctioning - to hit those danger threshold temps that fast is a sign that you need a new video card...

Got a new card , I will test and report tomorrow

Try replacing the Thermal paste or get a 120mm fan to blow cool air on it

Got the new card and after 4+ hours of Furmark test the videocard is stable and max temp reached was 72 degrees celcius. So I think the new card works fine. But I am having crashes while gaming , but I opened a new thread for that.

Thank you all for the help and advices.