How hot should a Parhelia get?

[RichardLee]

I touched the PCB board (the green part) and, man, is it ever hot. I could not hold my finger tip to it for long.

Curious as well as concerned, I used a cylindrical shaped thermometer to take a temperature reading. It read 59 C. The mercury reservoir was held up to the green plastic part where there was no components out. The thermoter itself is coated in plastic and normally would be used to measure liquids in a chemistry lab. In other words, although accurate for laborartory use, it's not meant to measure a flat surface. So I figure the actual temperature is HIGHER than 59 C because the mercury reservoir would have been taking an average of the PCB board and the air.

The fan on the Parhelia was running. The computer case was open of course. The CPU and case fan were also working. I was running dual CRT monitors if that makes any difference.

Is the Parhelia suppose to run this hot? I've touched other graphics cards before and, while warm, they were not THIS hot.

[Lim]

Yes, it really very hot.

[mutz]

Mine was originally running around 52C with the original HSF. I changed the HSF to a Titan CUV2AB and it now runs between 39C and 44C. This is a personal preference and not for any OC reasons. There are plenty of people running the Parhelia with the original HSF at the high temp with no trouble. I would say that unless you are having problems or anomallies of some sort, close the box and forget it.

[chhfchhf]

57C in the center of heatsink