gigabyte geforce 6600GT overheats

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hey i have a gigabyte geforce 6600GT PCI-E and when i play a game like 1 minute it overheats and shutsdown my pc :( I never touched the fan or anything .

Is the stock fan/cooler so bad? Any suggestions?
 
Might be a wobbly heatsink (common problem on 66GTs).

Have you checked what GPU temps your getting?
 
well the stuff is all new so no dust or anything.. also the case is open (don't have case fans yet) and there are no other cards in the way so it has about 20 cm of room beneeth it.

The cooler felt solid... dunno maybe i'll have to send it back :/

I'll check with my new case that is comming soon (with temp meter and case fans). Maybe it isn't overheating or something.
 
How do you know the card is overheating? What exactly happens when this error occurs? It is possible your power supply could be failing. ive had this happen before where computer ran great but after about 2-3 min of gaming, it would just shut off with no warning. At first I thought it was my video card but it turned out to be a faulty psu. The other possibility could be you simply received a "lemon" card. Do you have access to another computer you can test your hardware, namely, your video card on?
 
here's what i do to check the temps on my 6600gt. i open up the nvidia control panel and go to the temperatures section, i then open up ati tune and set the 3D view running, i can then observe the temperatures of the core while still running in 3D. while doing this i found that my card hits 90 degrees celcius which is kinda worrying

*edit* as far as i'm aware the card should be throttling back to stop it from getting that hot in the first place, on my card thats at 127 degrees
 
Using that ATI tune will take the temp up very high in a matter of seconds, so keep an eye on it. Luckily mine didint go over 85°c after 5 minutes
 
randruff said:
What is ATI tune?
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It is an overclocking utility with ATI and nVidia support. You can change the core and memory speed manually or have it find the max. It shows you if you go too high by showing artifacts in the 3D view. I would recommend downloading it.
 
elmarcorulz said:
You put ati tune, i just assumed that was the name of the program i was thinking of
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true, i didn't even notice that when i typed it and read through it, my mistake, sorry for any confusion
 
yeah, you only get artifact scanning with it on nvidia cards, on ati cards you get overclocking and other adjustments
 
actually i don't think it's overheating. I felt the back of the grafics card and it didn't burn my hand... so it should be able to get much hotter. I found in a forum a similar problem with an Winfast Leadtek 6600GT. He upgraded the gpu's bios.

I tried to flash mine but the flash keeps failing (teh card still works but games just can't be played.)

I've emailed gigabyte and im awaiting response.

I've tried older drivers but no luck.

Th psu (it's in my sig) is reviewed as a very stable psu with 3 12V rails of 16A each. So i doubt that is it.
 
Well it only happens when i play a game. The bios thing sounds plausible.

Edit:

I ran ati tool and after about 5 minutes it reached 70 degrees C and shutdown my pc :S i knnow it can go hotter then that since the "core skowdown temp" is 150 degrees C.

Gigabyte mailed me saying i have to use a bios in their link. I did and it's the same i tried :/ (i guess i should have said wich bios file i tried). The bios update failed.

I'm going to mail back. And i hope they give me something usefull now.

Edit Again:

I tried installing the drivers that came on the cd and i managed to update it's bios with the tool that came on the cd but no luck.. still the same problem.

I'm still waiting for the new mail to be answered if that doesn't i'll have to ask how to send it back for repair/replacement
 
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