nVidia problems

[Eberhard Roloff]

David Fox schrieb:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I believe Karl has an on-board Nvidia chip with a heatsink which isn't
>> properly attached, thus if overheats when pushed into anything other
>> than plain 2d work and causes him grief.
> 
> I might be in the same boat. I have a 6100 embedded nvidia (ECS
> mainboard) that I've had since May. On hotter days, or when doing 3d
> work (for instance Stellarium run more than a couple of minutes brings
> temperature up - according to acpi -V to near-critical levels causing
> shutdowns) or when doing other intensive stuff it comes real close to
> overheating and/or reaching critical temperature - 72 degrees C -
> which is *very* hot.
> 
Sorry,
72 deg C may be hot for you and me, but for a graphics chip this is 
low to medium.

When you are over 100 C (some are 120 C) With your graphics, you might 
talk about "hot".

Kind regards
Eberhard