7800gt temps

got a reply from the store that they think the temp is a tad high and if the card fails they will replace it no question asked aslong as their is no physical damage to it.

so if the fan fails and the card overheats i will get it changed.

yes, overclocking voids warranty but they cant tell if i have done it or not as i use nvidia's own drivers to overclock so no bios changes has been made, and i seriously doubt it would be a problem if the card burns as they have a hard time checking if its been flashed.

i see some still writing about the airflow so just for the fun of it im going to remove the side and put a tablefan which pushes way over 100cfm blowing into the case.

if the card still gets hot then there is no question about bad airflow.

they also said i could come in with the card to have it checked but if their is nothing wrong i will be billed around 17€

they also said that i cannot reapply the heatsink with as5 and still have a valid warranty so will not do that either.

name='watertown1978' said:
HAHA that is true with everything , Once you use a HS on a cpu besides the stock HS you have voided the warenty.
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well, i believe that statement is false when talking about laws in my country.

i as customer is allowed to do alot and still have a legal right for warranty.

everything i buy has 3year "complaint right" so if i buy a psu and the manufacture says it should work for 100.000 hours and i get 1 year warranty and the fan brakes after 2 years i can claim manufacture error.

i like many of these laws that protects me as a customer even if it means prices gets alittle higher.

aslong as their is no physical damage to the cpu i doubt a store has any right to deny a warrantyreplacement even if a aftermarket cooler has been used and most stores here wouldnt even try either as reputation means alot and i only go to stores with good reputation.

Hyper, 39 celsius isnt bad but i believe the gtx has a more advanced heatsink than the gt has.
 
okay done some testing with a tablefan and the card still hits 80celsius which gives a 2 ceslius lowering which isnt much so the caseventilation is sufficient.

used nvidia's own temp monitor and played some oblivion in windowed mode to se the temps in real time.

i will run the card with a little lower overclock, 450 instead of 471 as it didnt give much of a temp change and if the card burns it burns.

i can always point to the mail if the card burns and they have anything to say about it.

have a small heatsink ontop of the card and it felt warm to the touch, not so it hurts but sure was uncomfortable warm.

thanks for the help fellows :)
 
Raven, you won't void the warranty if you re-apply Arctic Silver Ceramique. Manuf's really don't look at thermal paste I've noticed. My dad stepped up his eVGA 7800GT to a 7900GT and that had Ceramique on it. He also just RMA'ed his 7900GT as eVGA is having major probs with them, and that had Arctic Silver Ceramique on it too.

TBH I think you're fine. Even AS5 wld work, as it's grey and not very metallic looking.

Nick
 
dont want to risk anything by using AS so i will leave it as it is.

will probably burn during summer heat but what the h*** its time for an upgrade then anyway.
 
Hahah yeh. If it doesn't get to hot in sweden and you wanna upgrade your PSU, take a look at the X1800XT :) Awesome card.

Nick
 
wouldnt surprise me a second if my 380w psu could handle a x1800xt.

tomshardware managed to draw 471w out of the same model before it shutdown.
 
My 7800GT is at 450/1050, factory overclocked from XFX... has something better than the reference cooler I think, tho it's not copper or anything. Mine is 49C idle, 69C load
 
here is the heatsink i have, notice that the card in question is the extreme version which clocks 450 on the core.

http://www.pcmegastore.nl/catalog/images/Leadtek_7800GT_Extreme.jpg

here's an image of the fan most 7800gt seems to have.

http://www.cyberplace.e-butik.se/CyberPlace/images/shop/leadtek-7800-pcie.small.jpg

macgamesrule, does this fan look like the one you have ?

http://www.releasereview.com/data/newsitems/2005/10/images/XFX-geforce-7800GT-gamer.jpg

dont remember if its already been up but in case.

the fan throttles up/down with temps and that function works without problem from what i can hear.

around 75-80 it starts to get noisy
 
here is the answer i got from leadtek support but im inclined to "accidently" put my finger on a sensitive spot on the card :/

the store tells me if their is any burnmarks on the card the warranty does not apply as leadtek doesnt cover those kind of damages even if the heatsink has been mounted faulty.

Dear Customer,

It's ok to run,as long as it did not exceed the 90 degree C that is safe.

Thank you for your letter!

Best regards,
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Raven said:
here is the answer i got from leadtek support but im inclined to "accidently" put my finger on a sensitive spot on the card :/

the store tells me if their is any burnmarks on the card the warranty does not apply as leadtek doesnt cover those kind of damages even if the heatsink has been mounted faulty.
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I would send it back really man, get soemthing else or even a difrent maker of the card. ht esooner you do it the better cuz it looks like these guys are gonna mess with you till the end and it will be much harder to return the longer you wait
 
the store i bought the card from is a known good store so i know they do what they can.

the problem here is that leadtek doesnt cover the card so its a manufacture problem so i have 3 options.

1.

sell the card but wouldnt be nice to sell a possibly defective card

2.

break the card, isnt nice but is in my opinion better than selling it as leadtek will take the cost and perhaps not a 14year old spending a year of savings on it.

3.

keep it and hope for the best.

at 80celsius the temp is in the high yellow area according to nvidia drivers.

i also read about a fellow that had a card hittin 115celsius which is the temp the drivers starts throttling the card and his card worked, no info on any possible burnmarks though.
 
Raven said:
the store i bought the card from is a known good store so i know they do what they can.

the problem here is that leadtek doesnt cover the card so its a manufacture problem so i have 3 options.

1.

sell the card but wouldnt be nice to sell a possibly defective card

2.

break the card, isnt nice but is in my opinion better than selling it as leadtek will take the cost and perhaps not a 14year old spending a year of savings on it.

3.

keep it and hope for the best.

at 80celsius the temp is in the high yellow area according to nvidia drivers.

i also read about a fellow that had a card hittin 115celsius which is the temp the drivers starts throttling the card and his card worked, no info on any possible burnmarks though.
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At those temps it may be safe yes, but its soooo gonna cut down your lifespan on the card. IF you do plan on keeping it I would strongly recomend putting a aftermarket HS on it then, voids the warrenty but from the sounds of it the card people wont honor it anyways as it is, and If all esle fails and you dont like the aftermarket HS you can always sell it if its a decent one. Resale of used GPU HS are very high so yu wouldnt lose much money at all
 
i will se what i do but the problem is im on disability pension so i dont have much money to live on and a decent aftermarket heatsink is EXPENSIVE and at the same time i refuse to buy anything marked "arctic cooling"

had 2 of theirs coolers on a 9800pro and they lasted less than 3 months together.

the price off a zalman vf700 is enough to buy food for a week, even 2 if i go cheap :/ so at the moment the cheapest is to brake the card whcih i dont want to do either.

but going to sit down tonight and do some serious googling and try to find at which temp burnmarks can occur

from experience i know an amd64 winchester can hit 75celsius without burnmarks.
 
well the story goes on.

the consumers in sweden is in many ways protected against companies by many different laws and we even have the possilbility to contact certain people and get their opinion on a situation and what my rights are and what i can demand from the company and i have been in contact with them and they claimed the company is wrong by saying they wont take the card under warranty if their is burnmarks on it because if it happens then the card has clearly been defective and it doesnt matter what leadtek which in the end is supposed to take the economical fall for it has to say so seems the store will take the fall if the card burns so i will keep on playing as there isnt much more i can do without invalidating the warranty.
 
Eou have a phat a$$ fan on that card lol

i have the xfx one with green fan and i have yet to see my gpu get to 70c even after over 1 hour of hardcore css action with 40 players,plus my card is overclocked to 520/1.15ghz.

I think your card is a duffer bro:(

Edit:anyway i forgot gpu's are the most able things to take high temperatures in a computer 100c+ i think so 82c is not too bad,i doubt it would shorten the life span much,you will probly have upgraded by then anyway.

If you still dont like the temp then put some as5 on that shiznit.

cheers.
 
yup the fan is rather big, the biggest i seen with any 7800gt card.

but wonder one thing, is there any way the store can se the card has been overclocked, the claim they can ?

they claim they can go in and check which frequence the card has been on, first time i ever hear anything about it.
 
have one question regarding the heatsink.

is the pads on the memorychips in any way fastened to the heatsink ?

or is it just to remove the screwws and gently take it of ?
 
ye but do they stick to both memory chips and heatsink or are they held in place by sheer preasure ?

would hate to remove the heatsink and find a memorychip stuck on it
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