Connect 3D x1950 Pro Overheating?

Hi, I had exactly the same problem.. Yes it is cooling but it's the cooling of a little black chip down at the end of the card where the power supply is connected. I bought a zalmann kit to cool my card but it didn't help my problem until I stuck one of the little spikey memory coolers on this chip and from there I've had no problems. Just to confirm the chip that needs cooling is on the fan side, the pci-e interface side and down near the power connector. Hope this helps

It is a cooling Issue, but it is not the GPU temperature that is getting too high so the 60c reading is not relevant. It's one of the other chips on the board as I stated above. I do agree with Ethel though, I guess you should get it RMA'd although it is a very simple non-warantee breaking fix. This is a problem that has plagued a lot of connect3d x1950 pro's so my advice is either put the memory cooler on that chip or if you send it back ask for a different brand.

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The coolers are called passive memory coolers from Zalmann and they are self adhesive. The chip is indicated on the picture

I too have a Connect X1950pro and have a similar problem but it only happens with the new Crysis demo. I've monitored the GPU temp and the screen turns into a checkerboard when the temp gets to about 73 degrees.
My systems ambient temp is around 32deg and the GPU idles at around 51deg which seems a bit high so I am looking at changing the fan for a Zalman VF900.
As a temporary meassure I have a tower fan next to the base unit and if I turn that on it seems to the keep temp down enough to be able to play the game with everything on full
I'll have a look at putting a heatsink in that chip though just in case it works.
I've also just bought a Powercoler X1950 pro so I can use them in crossfire mode. Before I do I will swap the Connect with the Powercoler one and see if I get the same overheating problem.

Ok here is my problem I have the connect3d ATI x1950 pro pci-e 512 mb. I installed the heatsinkers and the Artic Cooler Accereo s1 + turbo. The card used to reach 70 degrees and then all the image was corrupted. The temperature has lowed after the heatsinkers and the Artic fans. And here´s what i don´t get. The card now reaches 45 degrees and the system either reboots or the image is all wrong. Any ideas? I run a Tyan thunder 2895 a Thermaltake armor chasis (it has 7 fans in it) dual opteron 875 dual core. Thanks!!

The card looks just like the picture above.( http://www.webspawner.com/users/ja [...] %20pic.jpg ) I belive that would be vrm chip.... wich have both the artic colling and the zalman´s heatsinkers cooling down.... Im really lost on this one...
Thanx in advenced

See that chip on the left, it still makes no contact with anything, so it's cooling hasn't improved at all.

What power supply do you have? Rebooting can be caused by an overloaded or faulty PSU.

The system only reboots when the card is stressed. I did a 3dsmax render that took 90 hours and the system was all right. Im sure is something with the card

yeah the problem is that I bought it trough amazon.com and it was sometime ago they only accept 30 days returns. The other problem is that I live in Colombia (south America) and they dont have any representation here. I have tried to contact Connect3d but they havent reply

Yeah its 2 years but I dont know hot to replace it.

Yeah I though so that´s why wrotte to them but they did not answered back. I also read somewhere that the company is broke Do you have any idea on how to contact Connect3d?

They dont display the phone number at the webpage. I think I lost my money on this one

looks that way god damn it I lost 275 bucks!!! + all the sinkers and coolers! I guess I´ll go with nvidia

Mine works perfect the only flow is when I play games. But my pc is way too powerful not to play

you thin the PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB Graphics Card will do it?

any particular brand for the 8800gt I dont believe in ati no more!

I just wanna play crisys at the best and do editing and 3d. Im not sure what I need for that

But what you think is best. My tyan thunder its sli so Im not sure if nvidia will run better.

Hey man thank you for all the advice I really apreciate it. I think I´m gonna try the 8800GT. Thanks again!
By the way what do you do for a living?

I really apreciate all the advice. I think I´m gonna try the Nvidia this time, best regards!

I've also got one of these cards (Connect3D X1950 Pro) and had the overheating issue. Every time the card got to about 73 degrees it would crash my PC.

For me, and I haven't read this anywhere else on the web, I found that when I removed the stock heatsink there were two small (about 5mm x 15mm) bits of material that looked a bit like small plasters. These covered the blobs of white heat conducting putty that went over the three voltage modulator chips.

Looks like these were intended to protect the surface of the putty during manufacture and the factory forgot to remove them. I could be wrong about that, but either way I found that once I removed them and reseated the cooler (using Arctic Silver 5 on the graphics chip itself) my card now performs perfectly.

Never gets above 63 degrees (well, not during Bioshock or Oblivion on max settings, anyway) and doesn't crash at all. Took a few days for it to work properly, which might be to do with the Arctic 5 or the putty (or both) needing to settle in properly, but straight away it would last maybe 10 minutes before crashing rather than the 1 or 2 minutes it took previously.

Maybe your card can be resurrected after all. I haven't read this solution anywhere else, so am going to post it around the internet a bit.