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Hey ya'll! Okay, think I have a serious temp problem w/ my video card.

I have a MSI Nvidia 6800GT(256MB-PCIe) video card. A few months ago, when I was last gaming, I played BF2, but stopped because the game was so buggy, and during gameplay, my computer would reboot! Any other time; no reboots.

So I recently got Company of Heroes, started to play it... about 20-30 minutes into the game, BAM, my PC starts rebooting again. Two games making my PC reboot? Not likely, so now I'm suspecting hardware issues.

I popped open the Nvidia panel (latest drivers BTW!), checked my temp.. and WHOA, when not even gaming, Core GPU was in the 90's! Yikes! Decided to leave the panel/temp open, run a fps demo. I checked after running just a 5 minute demo, and wham... temp was 110c! Phew! (ambient temp was in 70's)

So here's what I did; took the side cover off; moved my sound card further away from under the video card so it's got better airflow; and lastly I bumped up the slider for the video card fan to MAX RPM (before it was at about 75%).

Now, granted I didn't shut my PC down to let it cool down, but I ran the demo two more times, and the temp was still 108c! Right now it's idling at 91c. That's with the cover off! My house temp is 77c. :) Not hot in here!

What else can I do to cool this beast? I got the whole box open, still heating up! Chassis fan blowing right over the card ONTO the card? With another next to sucking air out? I perplexed why it's still running so hot. Maybe I need to shut it down for a bit, then look at it again after I made all these changes...

Thoughts?

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The temperature in your house is not 77c.

Reply to locky28

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The temperature in your house is not 77c.



Good call, sorry, was typing too fast. LOL It's not 77c.

Anyhoo, I left my PC off for hours, fired it back up.. it was idling in 60s. I just played about an hour of a game, exited and checked the temp, it was 120c!!

Help.. :)

Reply to michaelpbfl

Your card could show an x1900xtx a thing or two :lol:

Remove the cooler and put on some new thermal paste, then replace the cooler. It is likely making poor contact with the gpu.

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