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Do video cards generally run hotter than the cpu and ram? I recently purchased a thermaltake HardCano II. My cpu and ram run at about 30 C, while the video card runs between 40-45 C according to the HardCano II. The vcard is a geforce3 ti200 that came without a fan (just a heatsink for the gpu) or heatsinks for the memory chips. I was having some problems with the video crashing when playing games, so I purchased a gpu fan, removed the fanless heatsink, chopped it up with a hacksaw, and used thermal adhesive to attach it to the memory chips. This solved the problem, but admittedly it's a pretty low end solution. Modded the sidepanel of my case as well and put in an intake fan by the video card. I'm just wondering if those temps are a little high for a video card. Found it odd that the rest of my system runs at 30 C, while the video card gets up to 45.
Thanks.
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I thought it may have been running hot due to a shoddy job putting on the fan and/or makeshift heatsinks, but I have an older Diamond Viper that seems to run pretty hot as well. So now I'm not sure.
Thanks.
Added:
I thought it may have been running hot due to a shoddy job putting on the fan and/or makeshift heatsinks, but I have an older Diamond Viper that seems to run pretty hot as well. So now I'm not sure.
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