- Jan 27, 2013
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Hey guys. So here's the deal, I bought myself a new CPU and GPU alittle over a year ago, and had the old CPU/GPU laying around my house for a while. One of my buddies was running a Core 2 Duo and a 9800GT and I told him that I'd be glad to let him have my old components as they were still a big upgrade over what he had. So I went over to his house, gave him the Core 2 Quad 8400 and 470GTX, we put the new parts in, computer posted and booted into Windows, everything looked good. He called me a few hours later and said that the graphics card was shutting off after about an hour of use on Half-Life 2. Not Battlefield 3, or Crysis 3, but Half-Life 2 was causing the graphics card to crash. I had him pull up Afterburner, and we ran Kombustor, within about 2 or 3 minutes the GPU was reaching temperatures of 90c+. Granted, this is a 470GTX I gave him, and I know these cards run hot. I had it before him and I would constantly see my temps in the 80-90c range when playing games like BF3 or Crysis 2. But I don't think I ever saw the card hit the kinds of temperatures it was hitting when he was running even Half-Life 2. I even tried to underclock the card and turn down the voltage, it didnt make any difference. So I got concerned it was his case maybe, because it is a micro case, I thought maybe its just not getting enough airflow. I decided to launch CoreTemp and look at the CPU temperature, and I about shut off the machine immediately. The CPU was hitting temps of about 70c idle and under load was around 92c. So I'm wondering, could this be a problem with the motherboard or power supply? Like I said, I know the 470's run hot...They always had that reputation. But I know that when I had that 8400 it never got close to temps like the ones I was seeing. And the heatsink and fan were placed properly and securely on the CPU as well, with Artic Silver paste (I applied a pea-sized amount as I was taught). Thanks for any help!
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