GPU Temp Idle at 68 Celsius

[Ikith]

This is worrying me and a friend says this is not normal and I do agree. My GPU is Idling at about 68-70 Celsius! I'm running an ATI Radion HD 2900 Pro. I have 1 Case fan a proc fan a fan on the video card and a fan on the power supply (All of these are pretty obvious)... Am I over reacting?

[Cephius]

It's a bit warm. Make sure the fans are spinning on the card and that something isn't clogging it up (like pet hair or something)

[Calina]

get a can of compressed air and clean dust off card fan that can help a bit after building my new PC this weak i cleaned up my old 1 cuase iam giving it to my mom

the GPU fan/heatsink was really dusty after cleaning it i got about 10c lower idle temp

also did the same with the CPU heatsink and fan makes a decent difference

its like $5 from home depot

[Ikith]

I'm a bit afraid to actually take the heat pipes and cooling fan off from the video card but I did just remove it and use compressed air on it and it seems to improved a bit... 10 c lower.

[levish]

they're hot, see if the latest catalyst control center lets you set fan speed manually.

I use 45% fan speed on my card, alot of them come out of the box set to 20% or so

[Plow]

get a can of compressed air and clean dust off card fan

When doing this, make sure you hold the fan in place. If you let it spin it can fuck it up pretty good. (unless you have a fan specifically built to be able to spin freely, which you should never assume unless you put it in yourself and know for a fact)

[Stiker]

they're hot, see if the latest catalyst control center lets you set fan speed manually.

I use 45% fan speed on my card, alot of them come out of the box set to 20% or so

I will attest to this helping a lot. I don't care about the noise at all so if I think my card is running/idling too hot, I'll crank up the fan.

[Octavious]

I've recently checked my temps again, I have an ATI HD 2600 with dual monitors running on the DVI inputs, and it runs FFXI & Browsing Etc @ 72C, but it will idle around 55 now instead of 60'ish like it used to, with the new fan settings. I would definitly up the speed a little, mine was @ 30%.

[hagun]

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 9800/9800 GTX+ that stays constantly at around 60C when running FFXI and other applications and even when idle. Is that an okay value? New computer I built about a month ago. What's a safe/acceptable value?