archie123

the 8800's were always hot due to a ridiculous fan profile set by nvidia (the fan speed doesnt go over 40% till yuor card reaches 80 degrees) that said 80 is fine ingame , no problems at all

you can set a custom fan profile up with Riva Tuner if you wish and set it to automatically rise along with temp triggered events

for example i have my 8800 fan to run at 40% on startup then go up by 10% for every 10 degree rise in temp , as a result i idle at 50-56 degrees and run at 72 degrees on full load and my fan speed never goes over 60%

If you want to set this up i can tell yuo how (you will need to download riva tuner and you will need to have it running at startup though) But if not its no problem as it is now as i said 80 degrees is ok , as long as this is the actual ingame temp and not the temp your reading after minimising or ending a game , as your card cen drop 15-20 degrees in the time it takes to shut a game down