December 27, 2003
MSI 7800GTX
Temperature wise the cooling design works really efficiently considering this is an uber-high-end-mega-transistor-count graphics cards and combined with that new single slot solution. The GeForce 7800 GTX card behaved 100% the same as the reference model temperature wise.
At idle, normal operation expect roughly 45 Degrees C. At 100% graphics core utilization we measured a maximum 76 Degrees C peak temperature, which actually is becoming normal. Two years ago I would have freaked out though. Speaking of cooling and thus ventilation, the cooling fan at 100% utilization does not make a lot of noise at all, in fact the HD is producing way more noise then the reference cooler on this NVIDIA graphics card and that's very nice to observe.
The bigger two slow in/exhaust we see on a lot of cards these days actually do have my preference as graphics cards however tend to dump that heat in your PC which on their end can warm up. The dual slot coolers are designed to dump that heat outside the PC. But as always, make sure your PC is well ventilated.
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