Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a new Gaming PC and I have a unique problem that I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me out with.
Here are the links to some pics (didn't want to embed them, cause they are large)
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp262/noisymonk_sp/Overview.jpg
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp262/noisymonk_sp/CloseUp.jpg
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Comp Specs
Case: Antec Nine Hundred Gaming Case
PowerSupply: Corsair TX 750W
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 running at 3.00 GHz (not overclocked)
MotherBoard: EVGA 780i Core2Quad Extreme
VideoCards: 2 x EVGA 9800 GTX 512Mb
RAM: Viper DDR2 4Gb Kit
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I have 2 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, and one of them is ridiculously close to the Power Supply as you can see in the pics above. Call me a noob for this, but apparently I never enabled SLI when I first got my PC, so for months I was only running the single top card. Then one day I was just exploring my comp (mostly messing with Vista) and then went into the Nvidia Control Panel and realized that SLI was currently dissabled. After kicking myself for a few minutes I turned it on and went on playing some games (mostly TF2 and some WoW(<--ewww :lol: )).
Anyways, after a few hours of gaming my comp suddenly locked up (nothing worked / Ctrl-Alt-Delete / Alt-F4) with some some weird graphical artifacts all over the screen. This had NEVER happened before, so my first thought was that my second card was probably overheating (because of its close proximity to the Power Supply). I've since dissabled SLI, and have yet to have the problem again (I'm hesitant to enable it again, to avoid any further damage).
To recap..
-Lower Video Card is extremely close to the PowerSupply (and the power supply is venting straight into the video card)
-Never had any problems with the PC with SLI dissabled
-System crashed and locked up hours after enabling the second card
-Haven't enabled the second card since then
-My Antec 900 case has plenty of ventilation. All fans running on Medium, but I don't have the extra side fan. Probably going to buy the extra fan soon anyways.
-Wondering if there is someway that I could redirect the air from the Power Supply away from the lower Video Card
-Maybe get some temperature monitoring software (any suggestions on a decent one?) and enable the second card and see what happens?
So.. any ideas on what I could do to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance,
NoisyMonk.
I recently purchased a new Gaming PC and I have a unique problem that I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me out with.
Here are the links to some pics (didn't want to embed them, cause they are large)
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp262/noisymonk_sp/Overview.jpg
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp262/noisymonk_sp/CloseUp.jpg
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Comp Specs
Case: Antec Nine Hundred Gaming Case
PowerSupply: Corsair TX 750W
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 running at 3.00 GHz (not overclocked)
MotherBoard: EVGA 780i Core2Quad Extreme
VideoCards: 2 x EVGA 9800 GTX 512Mb
RAM: Viper DDR2 4Gb Kit
---------------
I have 2 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, and one of them is ridiculously close to the Power Supply as you can see in the pics above. Call me a noob for this, but apparently I never enabled SLI when I first got my PC, so for months I was only running the single top card. Then one day I was just exploring my comp (mostly messing with Vista) and then went into the Nvidia Control Panel and realized that SLI was currently dissabled. After kicking myself for a few minutes I turned it on and went on playing some games (mostly TF2 and some WoW(<--ewww :lol: )).
Anyways, after a few hours of gaming my comp suddenly locked up (nothing worked / Ctrl-Alt-Delete / Alt-F4) with some some weird graphical artifacts all over the screen. This had NEVER happened before, so my first thought was that my second card was probably overheating (because of its close proximity to the Power Supply). I've since dissabled SLI, and have yet to have the problem again (I'm hesitant to enable it again, to avoid any further damage).
To recap..
-Lower Video Card is extremely close to the PowerSupply (and the power supply is venting straight into the video card)
-Never had any problems with the PC with SLI dissabled
-System crashed and locked up hours after enabling the second card
-Haven't enabled the second card since then
-My Antec 900 case has plenty of ventilation. All fans running on Medium, but I don't have the extra side fan. Probably going to buy the extra fan soon anyways.
-Wondering if there is someway that I could redirect the air from the Power Supply away from the lower Video Card
-Maybe get some temperature monitoring software (any suggestions on a decent one?) and enable the second card and see what happens?
So.. any ideas on what I could do to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance,
NoisyMonk.