People saying the GTX470 Is Hot what?

[CrazyCrusher]

I honestly don't see it, I got my new EVGA 470 today and it runs cool if not cooler than my 8800's , I have seen posts in forums and on Guru3d saying card runs hot under load and idle, mine hit 63 playing Crysis and these are the temps right after benching well about 5 mins after

[Train]

Congratulations! You got the case fans, etc. right.

[CrazyCrusher]

Well I have to 120mm case fans on the side door, I run a Corsair H50 water CPU cooler with two 120mm fans one Push and one Pull knocks the CPU temps down to about 36, GPU is stock under heavy load i have seen the card hit 69 thats as high as I have seen it go with Vsync AA pretty much every thing on.

[Train]

I was wondering if you had water cooling and thanks for posting that set up information. Makes for a nice reference. :D :D

[Imperion1]

The Corsair H50 are great.

I have two of them, one in my main computer (used for everything) and one in my gaming computer.
It does draw a lot of hot air out of the computer when using it in a push/pull configuration and using it to exhaust the air out of the computer. The room gets hot now, but the inside of the case is cooler.


Hitting 65c on the video card while playing Crysis is pretty good. I wouldn't worry about it. Now, if it was 65c at idle, then I'd worry.
If you want to and you have no problems about removing the heatsink, then remove the heatsink from the video card to see if there is good contact between the gpu, tim (thermal interface material), and heatsink. Of course you can always replace the tim with your own thermal paste.
If you see a plastic sheet still on the tim, then remove it, this is keeping the tim from making contact with the video card heat sink.
I've had it happen, in fact it was on the video card thats in my gaming system.

[CrazyCrusher]

Hmm you make some good points, I think I'll check that. I was thinking about removing the stock H/F and go with EVGA's copper water block, a little pricey at 139 but heard some really good things about it. I'll remove that H/F tonight when I get home and check that out, other wise I'm pretty happy with my choice of upgrade I skipped two video card generations because I ran two 8800's and never had any issues and am pretty happy with this card thus far