- Oct 27, 2013
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Running Windows 7 64 bit. About a month ago I started noticing my computer was crashing/then restarting whenever I would play a game that had a demand for graphics (Guild Wars 2, WoW etc). I thought maybe it was my drivers so I reinstalled everything, it seemed to fine. Then about a week ago it started again.
I pulled up a program to measure the temp of my graphics card (should have done this originally but the reinstall seemed to fix it) and it was going from 30c-92c in 15-30 seconds. This was happening quite often over and over and when it hit 92, it would crash. So I went online and saw that the Asus 7950 card had a design flaw, and a simple fix of putting rubber washers behind the screws of the heatsink would fix it. I did as instructed and now my temperature stays really low on high load (40c-50c). However, my computer is STILL crashing when I open up a graphic intensive game, it only takes 2-5 seconds now and CRASH. The temp stays 30c-40c though when the crash happens.
Could the GPU chip be fried from it reaching such a high temp numerous times and this could be what's crashing it? I've tested the PSU (CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W) with a multimeter (it was fine), ran a CPU overclock (it was fine), tested the RAM with memtest (fine). The computer stays totally stable until I open up WoW or GW2 and then it crashes. Before I order a whole new GPU, I want to rule everything out.
Thank you for any help.
I pulled up a program to measure the temp of my graphics card (should have done this originally but the reinstall seemed to fix it) and it was going from 30c-92c in 15-30 seconds. This was happening quite often over and over and when it hit 92, it would crash. So I went online and saw that the Asus 7950 card had a design flaw, and a simple fix of putting rubber washers behind the screws of the heatsink would fix it. I did as instructed and now my temperature stays really low on high load (40c-50c). However, my computer is STILL crashing when I open up a graphic intensive game, it only takes 2-5 seconds now and CRASH. The temp stays 30c-40c though when the crash happens.
Could the GPU chip be fried from it reaching such a high temp numerous times and this could be what's crashing it? I've tested the PSU (CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W) with a multimeter (it was fine), ran a CPU overclock (it was fine), tested the RAM with memtest (fine). The computer stays totally stable until I open up WoW or GW2 and then it crashes. Before I order a whole new GPU, I want to rule everything out.
Thank you for any help.
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