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Old January 23rd, 2009, 04:55 PM   #1
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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
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Old January 23rd, 2009, 05:20 PM   #2
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not at all 58c it's a good temp for gpu that's under load
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Old January 23rd, 2009, 06:43 PM   #3
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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
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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
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Old January 23rd, 2009, 07:32 PM   #5
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