- Apr 20, 2013
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I just built this new system:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Locke03/saved/1zyV
and after returning both a bad PSU and GPU I thought I finally had everything working until I went to stress test the GPU. (no overclocking or other kind of altering of hardware settings)
Running MSI Kombustor the temperature quickly spiked to 91c (with the fans sounding like a harrier taking off) and before 5 minutes had passed my display went out and I had to reboot the system. Tried it again and the same thing happened again. It idles at about 38c, and when I put it under load in Kombustor, let them temp rise to about 80c and then stop it, the card quickly drops back to that temperature.
I also brought up The Witcher and ran that for a few minutes with all setting to the max. Frame-rates and everything are good and it didn't crash or go dark, but within about 5 minutes got up to around 80c.
My initial hunch is incorrectly applied thermal paste, but I'm not sure. Any ideas on what the problem could be and how I might be able to fix it, or should I just send it back and wait for a replacement? Or should I just get a refund and go for a different card?
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Locke03/saved/1zyV
and after returning both a bad PSU and GPU I thought I finally had everything working until I went to stress test the GPU. (no overclocking or other kind of altering of hardware settings)
Running MSI Kombustor the temperature quickly spiked to 91c (with the fans sounding like a harrier taking off) and before 5 minutes had passed my display went out and I had to reboot the system. Tried it again and the same thing happened again. It idles at about 38c, and when I put it under load in Kombustor, let them temp rise to about 80c and then stop it, the card quickly drops back to that temperature.
I also brought up The Witcher and ran that for a few minutes with all setting to the max. Frame-rates and everything are good and it didn't crash or go dark, but within about 5 minutes got up to around 80c.
My initial hunch is incorrectly applied thermal paste, but I'm not sure. Any ideas on what the problem could be and how I might be able to fix it, or should I just send it back and wait for a replacement? Or should I just get a refund and go for a different card?
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