Overheating And Auto Shutdown

First off, unless you have warranty on that 9800Gt, I strongly recommend upgrading to an ATI card. The equivalent of your 9800GT would be around the HD5670/HD5750. ($85 and $120, respectively). However, the best-deal on any ATI card right now is the HD5770, priced at a mere $140.

If you do choose nVidia, I recommend not updating your drivers. nVidia's latest drivers have burnt several tens of thousands of graphics cards; you are not alone. The drivers prevented the fan from functioning on the graphics card, which caused massive overheating.

As for BIOS settings; your PC will only shut down if your process (CPU) reaches above a certain point, I think. The default is 65'c, I believe.

Uh, oh. Do you have the new Nvidia drivers? They have been blowing a lot of cards recently. Well, either RMA the card, or buy you'reself a 4850 1gb, or a 5770 or a 5850/5870/5970 depending on budget.

Thanks for the Reply. I have given my card to my dealer and am hoping for a replacement in 15-20 days. Secondly Please suggest a software.
Also what is the ideal cooling required by a 9800gt. Thinking of going for a new case. Should Cooler master RC310 With 2 120mm Fans be enough.

It's not a cooling problem. You just need to go back to the old drivers, and you're fine.

More than enough with 2 120mm fans.

For software, I am not too sure.

Its not the drivers. i was on the old ones. Actually I had a pathetic case with just 1 80mm fan .

What about a software. is there no software to save GPUs from frying

Use the old drivers. So yes, ther is. Also, download GPU-Z.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

I want something to warn me or shutdown. or something to show temp ingame

Finally what I was looking for THANKS

You're welcome.

Best answer selected by chinuhark.

Hi, Im new and inexperienced.

I have an nvidia gtx 280 and my screen keeps going completely haywire.. like pink and blue or yellow and geen is this something that overheating a graphics card would do?

It does sound like a symptom of overheating VRAM, yes.