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overheating video card

anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it.Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm not really the smartest computer guy, but GPU is the same thing as video card right? At least that's what I'm getting from reading stuff online.

Anyway, I just ran this everest thing it's saying that my GPU is currently 92C. That seems really high? I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas?

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm not really the smartest computer guy, but GPU is the same thing as video card right? At least that's what I'm getting from reading stuff online.

    Anyway, I just ran this everest thing it's saying that my GPU is currently 92C. That seems really high? I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas?

    do you have a fan on your video card?

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm not really the smartest computer guy, but GPU is the same thing as video card right? At least that's what I'm getting from reading stuff online.

    Anyway, I just ran this everest thing it's saying that my GPU is currently 92C. That seems really high? I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas?

    do you have a fan on your video card?
    Yeah. Do you think it isn't kicking on?

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    anoffday wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm not really the smartest computer guy, but GPU is the same thing as video card right? At least that's what I'm getting from reading stuff online.

    Anyway, I just ran this everest thing it's saying that my GPU is currently 92C. That seems really high? I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas?

    do you have a fan on your video card?
    Yeah. Do you think it isn't kicking on?

    or it isn't set to the right speed. whats the card.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm not really the smartest computer guy, but GPU is the same thing as video card right? At least that's what I'm getting from reading stuff online.

    Anyway, I just ran this everest thing it's saying that my GPU is currently 92C. That seems really high? I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas?

    do you have a fan on your video card?
    Yeah. Do you think it isn't kicking on?

    or it isn't set to the right speed. whats the card.
    It's a geforce 8400 gs.

    It's been working ok for the past week or 2, but today I couldn't play any games. L4D and TF2 were both getting like 1 FPS. and I opened the computer up and the card practically burnt my finger.

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  • SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Make sure the fan on your GPU is cleaned out. I was getting temperatures 20 degrees Celsius higher than normal once when I hadn't cleaned mine in a while, and when I finally did clean it it was covered in dust.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Smasher wrote: »
    Make sure the fan on your GPU is cleaned out. I was getting temperatures 20 degrees Celsius higher than normal once when I hadn't cleaned mine in a while, and when I finally did clean it it was covered in dust.
    I just checked it. It's totally clear. The card is only about 2-3 weeks old.

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  • RNEMESiS42RNEMESiS42 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Open your PC up; can you see the fan moving at all? Use speed fan to check your RPM.

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  • proXimityproXimity Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    GPUs generally run hotter than CPUs, but 90C+ is quite high. Testing my own 8800GTS, I could only get it as high as ~75C

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