Overheating

[TheMG]

When playing intensive games (FIFA09 is fine, but not COD5), my GPU seems to overheat after ~30 minutes play and the computer either restarts immediately or just powers down, and I have to let it cool for 5/10 mins. I have an ATi x1950 Pro 512mb and two monitors connected. I'm running it on low graphics, 800x600 (because this is a persistent problem). Earlier, I took out a redundant modem which was below the GPU, and this worked okay for a while, but now it has come back. Idling on windows, its running 61C, which seems fairly hot seeing as I'm not even running anything. Any advice?

 

[TheMG]

It quickly shot into the high 70s, but stabilised and didn't go above 84C. Although, I'm still playing so it could yet crash.

 

[redgarl]

84c is warm at load but won't crash a GPU, they can go over 100c and still operate with no issue

At 100C it usually shut down. I was having some problems with my 2 4850 in crossfire and it was pretty much doing that.

If he get a spare fan, he should try mounting one near it's graphic cards. It lowered my temperature by 20%, just enough to deal with the issue.

 

[TheMG]

I have a spare CPU fan, but how would I attach it?

 

[neon neophyte]

i had a dying 8800GTS. overheating whenever i played games. i glued a casefan to the outside. both fans are now powered and working and the card runs cooler than it ever did, overclocks better too.

it does, however, take up 3 slots now. instead of 2.