Drofder2004 wrote:Bit of research: The 5850 is designed to run at around 40C idle and 72C under load.
The card can happily run at 85C.

You have nothing to worry about, card and temp is fine.

Thanks.

Just try to keep it as low as you can. If it's regularly in the 90's when gaming I'd look at improving your cooling and perhaps the fan speed on the card. Personally when I play bf3 (with a GTX 275) my card will touch 109 degrees when I leave the graphics cooling at standard. I have to increase the...

I recently bought a computer and the graphics card is the radeon 5850. Now as I'm new to all the hardware sort of stuff, I don't want to be doing anything I shouldn't. I need to know what's a stable temperature and when to worry about it. I've been monitoring it whilst playing cod4 and the first and...