- Oct 28, 2009
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Hey all,
I have a 580 GTX graphics card in my Silverstone TJ-09 case. I bought the KoolIT omni ALC closed-circuit water cooling system for the card when I bought it some time ago. I immediately noticed (months ago) that the card runs a bit hot with the omni ALC but since it didn't cause any problems I ignored it.
Now I am playing a video game (SWTOR) on max settings and as the weather has gotten warmer (room temp~76F) my computer has begun to freeze and crash.
I suspected the graphics card and using MSI afterburner found the temperature was getting up to about 100 C while playing. Even starting the game and viewing the "character selection screen" causes the GPU temp to jump from about 45C idle to 99C in ~10 seconds.
So I took the card out, dusted the radiator/fan, removed all the heatsinks and reapplied AS5 thermal paste to the GPU core. I stupidly removed the thermal pads from the rest of the card but I had an old 8800 GTX nearby which has thermal pads which perfectly replaced the stock pads I removed. (They fit exactly over ever component which had thermal pads before, and actually look a lot cleaner too...).
I reinstalled the card and found it idles at about 35C and when playing SWTOR gets up to about 90-95C but instead of quickly jumping to that temperature it slowly climbs over about 5-10 minutes. When I close the game i rapidly cools to about 60 and then slowly cools back to around 40C.
It seems like the card is still getting too hot, what am I doing wrong here?
Some info about the cooling setup. It's the silverstone TJ-09 with air blowing in from the sides and back over the graphics card. Another fan blows air down from the top and the KoolIT radiator/fan exhausts out the back. There are no other cards plugged into the MOBO and nothing obscuring the fans.
I have a 580 GTX graphics card in my Silverstone TJ-09 case. I bought the KoolIT omni ALC closed-circuit water cooling system for the card when I bought it some time ago. I immediately noticed (months ago) that the card runs a bit hot with the omni ALC but since it didn't cause any problems I ignored it.
Now I am playing a video game (SWTOR) on max settings and as the weather has gotten warmer (room temp~76F) my computer has begun to freeze and crash.
I suspected the graphics card and using MSI afterburner found the temperature was getting up to about 100 C while playing. Even starting the game and viewing the "character selection screen" causes the GPU temp to jump from about 45C idle to 99C in ~10 seconds.
So I took the card out, dusted the radiator/fan, removed all the heatsinks and reapplied AS5 thermal paste to the GPU core. I stupidly removed the thermal pads from the rest of the card but I had an old 8800 GTX nearby which has thermal pads which perfectly replaced the stock pads I removed. (They fit exactly over ever component which had thermal pads before, and actually look a lot cleaner too...).
I reinstalled the card and found it idles at about 35C and when playing SWTOR gets up to about 90-95C but instead of quickly jumping to that temperature it slowly climbs over about 5-10 minutes. When I close the game i rapidly cools to about 60 and then slowly cools back to around 40C.
It seems like the card is still getting too hot, what am I doing wrong here?
Some info about the cooling setup. It's the silverstone TJ-09 with air blowing in from the sides and back over the graphics card. Another fan blows air down from the top and the KoolIT radiator/fan exhausts out the back. There are no other cards plugged into the MOBO and nothing obscuring the fans.
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