Yes, GPU's run hotter than CPU's. My Radeon's run around 80C all the time with auto fan mode.
-----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 2:47 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] GPU cooling I own two ASUS 4970 video cards that I bought a little over a year ago to drive three large monitors. The purchase turned out to be a big mistake. The fans are of a poor design. One of the cards fans died in six months. Asus RMA took four weeks, got the card back, the fan died the next day. Back to RMA for another three weeks, the card died in one week. Then ASUS told me that they would RMA it a third time but that is it.... not that I cared as I wasn't going to jump through their hoop again. I looked for a third party solution and while they were available they were all for overclockers and huge. I ended up getting a Arctic Cooling passive heat sink, that was large and it works. I got it in the case ... just barely. Now the second 4970 fan went out. I will never get another giant heat sink installed so I am thinking of taking one of my extra 60mm CPU fan that I bought for my overclocked XEON 3.06 CPU and putting it on the video cards heat sink... would that work? I am not overclocking the card and it is in a well ventilated large case. Does the GPU run a lot hotter then a CPU? thanks
