Card overheat?

zaccary

zaccary

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Quite recently, my graphics card, ATI x1950, has begun to, as far as i know, over heat when playing a graphics intensive game or program.

this began to happen about 2 weeks ago, before that all was fine. now though i cant use the whole system without having my door off...

when i play games it will play fine for a few minutes, then minimize with the error "your accelerator cant communicate with your processor" or something along those lines. i ignored it and thought it was just nothing, but then it began to happen more frequently, and then just restarted the whole system altogether.

possibly related is that my CPU (q6600 with stock cooling) has begun to do the same, some time after the error messages came up, i think. from having a max temp of 60C to 85C for no apparent reason!

to clarify, there has been no large temperature changes due to climate, seeing as all this happened almost instantaneously i dont think this would be the case anyhow. HOWEVER, the case might actually be, my case. it is the worst for cooling ever, with a rubbish duct thing in the door and 1 120mm fan at the back.

i fail to understand how this could be the only reason, as this has never happened before.



Mother board is ASUS P5K-E. right now my CPU is at 5% usage and at 40C (with no case door on and the room temp is 15-16C)
 
The case shouldn't be the problem as you said, it's only just started happening. Make sure to clean the fan and heatsink like taylor suggested. Also be sure to check that the cases airflow has not been reduced.
 
The fan once went on my graphics card I had it for only a year then I noticed the temps were right up high with the temp utility alerting me. The fan was still spinning on my card but it was so easy to stop with my finger so I replaced it with a water cooler and gone was the noise and the mega high temps.

For now you could add an additional case fan for £3 that blows on your card see if it helps. I have one extra fan blutacked to the case blowing on the cards memory heatsinks towards the rear fan.

On my case the fans have dust filters that clog up so need cleaning also the fan blades can collect grime and loose their air moving ability. All cases must have a fan bringing air in at the front of the case and one fan at the back removing air out of the case. If you get a Thermaltake case you get upto 7 quiet fans. The latest case has water cooling built in.
 
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Well, to put it short the dust was the problem, which is now fixed so thanks for the heads up.
i have taped the dust filter that came with my case originally on to the side duct (were this funnel thing once was).

unfortunetly my case has no intake fans, and no means of adding one either, so the new case is the only option for long term.

however i can now run it fine so there is no Immediate danger :p

thanks again...seems kind of stupid that i missed it really -_-
 
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