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I have a GTS 450 (Gigabyte overclocked) that when it reaches temps over 77c is starts making the graphics all crazy and walls appear that aren't there that sort of thing. I have rma'd the card twice with the company and it still does it. I found that if I have the easy boost utility and turn the fans up it "fixes" it, but now that is not even working. I have a HAF 912 case with 5 fans installed and my cpu temp never goes about 50c, but that video card will climb quickly if the easy boost is not running. When testing with furmark recently it went up to 80c and the weird graphic problem reappeared. My question is, is this specific to this card or am I going to have that happen a lot? I am tired of cards that overheat and then do that on heavy load or even medium load as with this card. It won't even play MLB 2k12 on average setting without overheating and doing the weird graphic problem. I was looking to get the 7750 or something like that, but didnt want to do that if I was just going to run into the same problem again. Any suggestions?
 
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Yeah if you don't mind taking the time to do it, its a quick and cheap solution. You can get thermal paste for like $5.
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The chances of it happening again with a brand new card are pretty slim . If you ran into the same issue, it would more likely be a defect in either the motherboard/pci-e slot, or perhaps the psu/power connectors. But that is likely not the case. If the 450 you have is around 2 years old, the thermal compound on the processor has probably dried up, hence the cooling issues. You could apply new thermal paste and see if that fixes the problem.. but if i was you I'd just buy a new card - the GTS 450 is 3 generations out of date now anyway.
 
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You can reapply thermal paste to the GPU, not the CPU in this case. And it would most likely solve his overheating issues.
 
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I have an AMD phenom x2 925 quad core cpu and a biostar 780g m2+ se motherboard.
 
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I might try this if I decide to stick with this card, but haven't decided yet.
 
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Yeah if you don't mind taking the time to do it, its a quick and cheap solution. You can get thermal paste for like $5.
 
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