Hot card

[Billforce]

I recently built a PC, AMD Phenom 11 quad, 4 gig Ram, 320 Sata etc.
The Video card is an Nvidia 9500 pci exp.
At idle the card runs at 61 deg. C and under gaming it goes to 75 deg. C and sometimes will crash. The fans are all working, new case with 5 large fans from front, back, side 120 in the PS and the original fan on the video card is working. I have all the fans running max. and the CPU is only 37 deg. C.
I've never seen a card run this hot, I could fry an egg on the back side, I even placeed an exhaust fan next to the card that blows out a PCI slot on the back but still too hot.
I guess an after market fan may be in order or are these temps normal for the card?

[Midknyte]

t idle the card runs at 61 deg. C and under gaming it goes to 75 deg. C and sometimes will crash

That is not that hot for a GPU. What are you doing when it crashes?

[Ankerson]

That's not much of a temp difference between idle and gaming temps. :confused:

[Billforce]

That is not that hot for a GPU. What are you doing when it crashes?

FarCry 2 at 75+ deg. C Doesn't totally crash just locks up the PC. I notice that before it locks up it gets herky jerky.
Installed both new and old drivers but no diff.

[Ankerson]

Try playing with the case open and see what happens.

[Train]

Try playing with the case open and see what happens.
And add a fan blowing into the case.

[Billforce]

And add a fan blowing into the case.

UH, my OP said one fan in front blowing in and one on the side blowing IN on a new high level gaming case. CPU is cool as "The other side of the pillow".

[Ankerson]

UH, my OP said one fan in front blowing in and one on the side blowing IN on a new high level gaming case. CPU is cool as "The other side of the pillow".

But we aren't talking about your CPU, we are talking about your Graphics card. ;)

[Train]

I meant a house fan when you have the cover off.

Side fans, this is strickly experimental, but sometimes blowing in is cooler and other times blowing out is cooler. We have to test each computer to find out which is better,

[Midknyte]

The temps aren't that high, but it could just be a faulty card.

Is the card overclocked at all, including 'factory' overclocking? Make/model would help.

What OS are you running? What driver sets have you used? The 196.75 set is known to run hot. Even if you're using a different set now, it may have damaged your card.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551

[Billforce]

Thanks for the tip Midknyte, I downloaded the latest drivers and installed them and it lower the max temp during gaming about 7 deg C. Tollerable now and hasn't crashed yet.

[Imperion1]

Bit late but you might want to see if the plastic sheet was removed from the TIM on the heatsink of the video card.

One of my video cards was getting hot, I took the screws off the heatsink and it fell off. What I was gonna do was replace the TIM with AS. Turned out the manufacturer had not removed the plastic sheet that was on the TIM. Card ran 10c cooler after that.