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[Solved] Videocard overheating - please help.
Drez
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So two things:
a) I've been having trouble with games but I honestly haven't played PC games in awhile so I don't know if this is new or old. I was playing Sins of a Solar Empire yesterday for about an hour and it froze up and my VPU locked up and then restarted. It also started to mess up inside Gametap.
According to Catalyst Control Center, the idle temp is 55 degrees Celcius. I know the Radeon X800XT is good up to 90 degrees Celcius.
So I downloaded ATI Tray Tools. It has a simple 3D renderer. As soon as I turned the render test on? Zoomed right up and even past 90 degrees Celcius.
Sigh. Is this even fixable or is something else going on here? I went ahead and blew all the dust out (and there WAS a lot admittedly) with compressed air, but it worries me that it shoots up in temperature so quickly with just a 3D render test. I set the fan to run at 100% no matter which temperature it runs at and that didn't help. I even tried underclocking the card and that didn't help either (though I'm not 100% sure I did that correctly).
b) I have Arctic Silver 5. I have a small screwdriver. But for some reason these screws on this little "bar" in the back of the heatsink don't want to budge. Am I missing some kind of trick or super-secret latch here? Sigh.
a) I've been having trouble with games but I honestly haven't played PC games in awhile so I don't know if this is new or old. I was playing Sins of a Solar Empire yesterday for about an hour and it froze up and my VPU locked up and then restarted. It also started to mess up inside Gametap.
According to Catalyst Control Center, the idle temp is 55 degrees Celcius. I know the Radeon X800XT is good up to 90 degrees Celcius.
So I downloaded ATI Tray Tools. It has a simple 3D renderer. As soon as I turned the render test on? Zoomed right up and even past 90 degrees Celcius.
Sigh. Is this even fixable or is something else going on here? I went ahead and blew all the dust out (and there WAS a lot admittedly) with compressed air, but it worries me that it shoots up in temperature so quickly with just a 3D render test. I set the fan to run at 100% no matter which temperature it runs at and that didn't help. I even tried underclocking the card and that didn't help either (though I'm not 100% sure I did that correctly).
b) I have Arctic Silver 5. I have a small screwdriver. But for some reason these screws on this little "bar" in the back of the heatsink don't want to budge. Am I missing some kind of trick or super-secret latch here? Sigh.
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Anyone know what I can use as an in-game GPU temperature monitor?
If it doesn't have a fan, perhaps look for an aftermarket cooler. I know Zalman and a few other companies make them.