new to gaming. Is my video card running to hot?

bigal · January 23rd, 2009, 04:55 PM

I have a medium size gateway(stock) and when I play crysis warhead on enthusiast, 1280x1024, 4x anti-aliasing, my video card stays at about 58c when playing for 3 hours straight. Is that too hot. I am new to pc gaming

Zamoldac · January 23rd, 2009, 05:20 PM

not at all 58c it's a good temp for gpu that's under load

gen.Rage1991hrv · January 23rd, 2009, 06:43 PM

well if you ask me your card is a best card for now and 58°C is not much
nvidia cards are geting hoter under a stress
have fun playing

IModAmd · January 23rd, 2009, 06:58 PM

Personaly it's an really good temperature... for an 4870 ... ive got 2 4850 in CFX... with furmark 1 hour of intensive workload i can reach about 110 celcius so do not worry

bigal · January 23rd, 2009, 07:32 PM

Thank you all for your helpful comments.