my video cards gonna blow up!

[brownbox]

downloaded a utility today to check my computers temperature and to change my fan speeds etc. Well i noticed that the GPU is sitting on 56 degress Celcius as I am posting this(I have no other programmes open)
When I play something like Need For Speed Most Wanted or FS9, it easily gets to 95-100 degress.

Sooo, Im wondering what everyone elses video card runs at

please tell me if this is normal or not

*Note- I am using a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9600 Turbo Pro if this means anything

[ZK-MAT]

Water boils at 100 degrees mate, I would question whether you program is mis-reading your card's temp, unless you have a Dell or an Apple laptop, I hear those batteries are fiery

I would think that the card would shut down before 95-100 degrees to prevent damage. What program are you using to check its temperature?

[Zöltuger]

laptops do tend to get hot, and motherboard temp monitors have been known to be off by 20 degrees. is the bottom of the laptop hot?

[brownbox]

lol yes its a dell laptop, but the battery is fine as we checked on the website
the bottom is warm, but easily not hot enough to fry an egg on
the programme i am using is I8KfanGUI made for dell laptops