How hot should your gfx card get ?

[Chef]

As the title says really, I have a Radeon 9800 pro & it seems to get very hot. I`d say it gets as hot as a just brewed cup of tea/coffee(I touched it with my finger to test :shrug: ) Does this sound about the right temp? Is there a way of monitoring the gfx card temp?

Chef :?:

[nigel_williams]

Mine runs too hot, even with an arctic cooler. I keep getting artefacts on the screen and texture corruption in games. CPU temperature is 42 degrees, and system is 40 degrees... so it's not exactly hot in there.

[Chef]

Cpu temp on mine is 33 degres & mobo temp is 28 degrees. This is my second radeon9800 as the 1st one was artefacting after the 1st week of purchase & was exchanged with no quibbles(nice one Aria :thumbs: ).

Chef.

[DarthVader]

Mabye you could fit some case fans? :shrug:

My 5900 runs cool enough (for a graphics card that is).