Novice question..

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c4eaglem

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I've had my computer since about 2009. It's a gaming computer I bought from Ibuypower. I've honestly done nothing with it as far as upgrades are concerned since I bought it and I'm in the process of upgrading a few parts.

I have an old AMD 5800 graphics card and the thing is over heating like crazy right now. If I have Facebook open or if I watch videos on youtube for too long the computer shuts off. I don't think it's the CPU. My CPU has over heated before which I could feel the heat from the heat sink. I cleaned the fan and re-applied thermal paste and it's been cool ever since. But the graphics card is getting really hot and its fan spins at full speed so I'm 99% sure that's the problem. When it's idling it's fine, some games work and some don't causing it to shut off.

My dorkoid question is if a graphics card has a heat sink inside of it? I don't know if there is anything internally I can do to it to possibly fix the heating issue. I'm planning on buying a new card along with a few other things here within the next couple of months but until then I'd like to make this one function until then. Any help or advise on this would be extremely helpful!
 
Video cards die out over time. Just replace the video card and you should be fine. Make sure you blow out the dust of both cpu fan and video cooling fan.
 
When you dusted out the CPU, did you do the same for the GPU?

Look inside that gigantic shroud with the fan and you'll see a heatsink.

You can also verify GPU temps using CCC or MSI Afterburner
 
Okay, that's what I was figuring as far as replacing it. I suppose six years of running is quite a long time.

When I first cleaned my CPU I had not done anything with the GPU. To be honest I didn't know graphic cards had heat sinks in them, haha. But I recently took it out and cleaned any dust in the fan. I bought some thermal paste and I'm going to open up the graphics card tonight and re-apply it in hopes that it's a good temporary solution until early next month.

I downloaded MSI Afterburner and currently as I'm typing this it's running at about 90 degrees Celsius, which after research I found is very high.

Currently these are my computers specs; would this build be viable for the new GeForce GTX 960? I'm also planning on getting a new 2TB hard drive along with a SSD to put my OS on and a couple of my favorite games.

Motherboard: ASUSTeK P6T
Processor: Intel Core i7 920
Memory: 6 GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB
Power Supply: TX 750
 
Okay, so I just opened up the graphics card and re-applied thermal paste. When I turn on the computer the graphics card fan runs at full speed and nothing else happens. Any ideas to what could have possibly gone wrong?
 
If you didn't apply it properly, then the heat sink isn't making proper contact and it may be overheating again..

You removed the old paste using rubbing alcohol, right?
 
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