17 - 9600 GT Core temperatures

GeForce 9600 GT core temperature

Let's have a look at the temperatures these single slot design coolers produce. As always we measured at a room temperature of 21-22 Degrees C.

	NVIDIA reference GeForce 9600 GT

First we look at the reference model from NVIDIA. You'll notice that our maximum measures temperature was 65 Degrees C while it idle temperatures are at roughly 45-50 Degrees C. That's telling me that the standard cooler not only is pretty inaudible, it cools really fine as well.

	BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC

The next model is the BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC. This product has exactly same cooler, though a mild overclock should make the temps rise a little. Apparently the temps are roughly equal. Very good.

	ECS GeForce 9600 GT

ECS then. Their GeForce 9600 GT OC is passively cooled and I did expect the temperatures to go trough the roof; but no way. The card is overclocked and has no active cooling. It idles at roughly 50 Degrees C and peaks at 70-75'ish Degrees C. I find that to be amazing. Please remember that you do need a little airflow in your PC.

	eVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC

What I found to be striking on the eVGA SSC model it that temperatures behave 100% the same as the reference clocked versions. See the SSC model has significantly high clock frequencies, not only would that increase heat a little yet also manufacturers usually have to increase voltage inside the GPU a little bit for stability. Perhaps that's not the case as we notice marvelous temperatures.

	Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT OC

We already mentioned specifically that the custom cooler on the Galaxy product is slightly more noisy, but nothing bad though. The results however show that the product is cooling down the GPU by roughly 5 degrees C in both idle and stressed situations. Again very respectable, slightly more noisy though.

	Point of View GeForce 9600 GT OC

The POV GeForce 9600 GT OC next to having default clock speeds also used the reference cooler. We see the standard cooler doing it's job again. Note that we reached 64 Degrees C at maximum, not 62 as you see in the screenshot.