Evening everyone,
I am having a bit of an issue with my graphics card and I can't figure it out, I believe the card may be failing but not for sure let me give you some information and then what i'm experiencing, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running an older card: Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT, 256MB, AGP
Anyway I have been playing my same game of choice (World of Warcraft) that i've been playing for over a year. Over the last few days I was having an issue where the screen would just go to pixels, the entire screen just different colored pixels and it would lock up not allowing me to do anything but manually reset the computer. After the first few times I took the side panel of the case off to examine the hardware of the computer and nearly blistered my hand when I touched the graphics card it was unbearably hot to the touch.
I installed Everest on the computer to monitor temperature and noticed as of late the following.
When not in a game:
CPU: Around 79 degrees F (26 C)
Motherboard: Around 60 degrees F (15.5 C)
GPU: Around 135-140 degrees F (57-60 C)
When in a game:
CPU: Around 101 degrees F (38 C)
Motherboard: Around 75 degrees F (24 C)
GPU: Around 160-175 degrees F (71-79 C)
Is the graphics card overheating and causing these issues? All fans in the computer are running just fine I even replaced 2 of them a few days ago there were starting to go out. Tonight the computer monitor went black and gave me the "no signal imput" as though it didn't even see the video card. These pixels appear or the screen blacks about 1 hour after booting the computer up.
I am at a lose I thought for sure the graphics card was overheating and going out even though the fan on the card still functions fine but others have said that the temperature its running at even in game doesn't seem to bad, please someone help me out, should I replace the graphics card?
Thank you for any help/advice
Mike
I am having a bit of an issue with my graphics card and I can't figure it out, I believe the card may be failing but not for sure let me give you some information and then what i'm experiencing, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running an older card: Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT, 256MB, AGP
Anyway I have been playing my same game of choice (World of Warcraft) that i've been playing for over a year. Over the last few days I was having an issue where the screen would just go to pixels, the entire screen just different colored pixels and it would lock up not allowing me to do anything but manually reset the computer. After the first few times I took the side panel of the case off to examine the hardware of the computer and nearly blistered my hand when I touched the graphics card it was unbearably hot to the touch.
I installed Everest on the computer to monitor temperature and noticed as of late the following.
When not in a game:
CPU: Around 79 degrees F (26 C)
Motherboard: Around 60 degrees F (15.5 C)
GPU: Around 135-140 degrees F (57-60 C)
When in a game:
CPU: Around 101 degrees F (38 C)
Motherboard: Around 75 degrees F (24 C)
GPU: Around 160-175 degrees F (71-79 C)
Is the graphics card overheating and causing these issues? All fans in the computer are running just fine I even replaced 2 of them a few days ago there were starting to go out. Tonight the computer monitor went black and gave me the "no signal imput" as though it didn't even see the video card. These pixels appear or the screen blacks about 1 hour after booting the computer up.
I am at a lose I thought for sure the graphics card was overheating and going out even though the fan on the card still functions fine but others have said that the temperature its running at even in game doesn't seem to bad, please someone help me out, should I replace the graphics card?
Thank you for any help/advice
Mike
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