Wow! what a quick reply! You caught me off-guard there...
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Originally Posted by Praetor
Define overheat
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I get the clue... maybe 80c on the GPU is not exactly overheating.
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Thats not overheating. The 6800s can breach 100C without blinking (or throttling, unless youve set them to)
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I gather you are referring to the GPU. What about the RAM? Can it also breach the 100c?
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Im not convinced its overheating -- ive ran a 6800GT and 6800U without a fan along with Particule Fury (albeit not for very long) ... now THAT's overheating
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Ohh.. I wouldn't try that..
Nevertheless, I should mention that yesterday I got the overheating message from SmartDoctor only after I got out of the game myself, after having played a few minutes. And today it gives me the black-freeze during the demo, not even getting to the game itself, not to mention that I had to turn the overheating alarm "off while playing 3d-games" in smartdoctor just to prevent the smartdoctor from interfering with the game process.
Are you sure my case is not overheating...?
Then what could it be?
I should mention the following:
Yesterday I was running on the Asus 62.11 drivers with SmartDoctor 4.54.
But today I am running with the Asus 66.72 drivers (in this 66.72 version Asus reverted to the Nvidia 6800 drivers, so I also had to install the Asus "Enhanced" Driver and I did) with SmartDoctor 4.57.
Could *this* have anything to do with it?
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Originally Posted by Praetor
Its good that you mention that. How stable ARE your rails? (use ASUS probe to check ... have it start loggin and then play some games until it crashes)
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Wow... I don't know... I don't even know what "rails" are...
I will search this "Asus probe" you mention. I gather by what you say that this is some type of logging program. I believe I will manage it. I will post the results in a few minutes.
Meanwhile, thank you so very much, I hope your help will get me through this!