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So I seem to be having some serious problems with my video card, a Geforce 9800 GX2. A week or 2 ago I could play the SC2 beta without any problems, then last week it started crashing every other game and just got worse to the point where I can`t finish a game before the screen goes black and sound start looping while my computer makes noises like some fans or the harddrive or CDRom or something starts spinning, then die, starts again repeat.
So I downloaded some temperature monitors and discovered that my GPU is idling at around 85-95 C and once I start the SC2 beta it starts racing upwards, the highest I saw before computer crashed was 126 C. Apparently it should rarely get up to even 90 while doing heavy work from what I have gathered by googling and idling temperatures seem to be waaaaay lower.
So I assume the problem comes from overheating and I wondered if anyone has a solution to what I can do about this or if my video card is beyond salvation already? Watching movies, browsing or playing BW have caused me no problems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
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Oh forgot to mention it in my post, I am using the old 196.21 drivers that worked fine 2 weeks ago.
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you can undervolt/underclock it using rivatuner and some other tools. I did that with my 8600m gt. It helped some even though my model is freaking defective and loves to run at 70-80c idle and 90c when playing games.
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If the temperature is the issue there's not much you can do beside checking if your video card fan still working and remove all the dust that might be stuck on it & on the radiator...
You can use a software called speedfan to high up the rpm of your comp fans (especially your video card fan in your case)... might not be compatible with your gc idk
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Thx a lot see others are posting about the exact same problems as me there, hopefully I will find a solution.
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If your GPU is idling at 85C there is definitely something wrong. Open up your case and take a look at your graphics card. There is probably a substantial amount of dust/other stuff caked in your 9800GX2's intake fan that could be causing the overheating. It might not be a driver problem, but a maintenance problem :p
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I thought that the patch included the fix to the 'variables.txt' which capped framerate at 60?
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On March 09 2010 10:41 FragKrag wrote:
If your GPU is idling at 85C there is definitely something wrong. Open up your case and take a look at your graphics card. There is probably a substantial amount of dust/other stuff caked in your 9800GX2's intake fan that could be causing the overheating. It might not be a driver problem, but a maintenance problem :p
I did it this weekend actually, was lots of dust there that I sort of cleaned up. Tho I never removed the card from the cabinet to clean it separately and I don`t have any compressed air on a can here so I have not really cleaned it well just removed any dust I could actually see in the cabinet. Guess that is on my to do list now then. Once again thanks for the help!
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If you have a tool to see how fast your fans are moving, that could help as well. Sometimes the fans are stuck at a certain % of their RPM, and that could cause overheating because the fans need to be able to speed up to dissipate more heat. How loud are your fans when your computer decides to quit on you?
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On March 09 2010 10:59 FragKrag wrote:
If you have a tool to see how fast your fans are moving, that could help as well. Sometimes the fans are stuck at a certain % of their RPM, and that could cause overheating because the fans need to be able to speed up to dissipate more heat. How loud are your fans when your computer decides to quit on you?
Pretty loud.
According to hardware sensor monitors my chassis fan is running at 1700-2000ish.
According to Rivatuner my GPU0 fanspeed is around 3.6k ish. The GPU1 fan is at 0, dunno if this is the problem.
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So it isn't a problem with the fans.
The 9800GX2 only has 1 fan as far as I'm aware of (which is why it runs so goddamn hot)
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As others suggested, could be dust. I had problems of high temps in the past and whenever I took the card out and blew the dust out of the heatsink fins, I got something like a 20C drop in temps. I have 8800GT tho, which is half as thick as your card (and therefore is probably much more susceptible to cloggage).
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