VGA overheating

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dendrikas

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hello. i have Gainward Geforce 8600 GTS video card. It is working about 2 years. For the first year its temp idle was 59, with games about <80 (cant remember) . Recently i started to get errors from expertool that my card is overheating with 115 degrees when playing. The idle temperature is 95-105 and thanks god i dont get any errors or restarts when not playing. Fan seems not making any nois or just not working at all. I tried:
Speedfan - didnt detect my fan, only temperature
Expertool - i try to make any settings of fans but the fans seems like not answering
Rivatuner - i change my fan speed to 100% and fan seems like not working at all ( i was opened my computer case and saw that it spins , but doesnt cool and make any noise)

some how doing any settings with rivatuner first and then with expertool makes the fan answer and work at high speed for a minute . sometimes i turn on the computer and the temperature is 53 and fan is making normal noise, but i open game and the shit gets back with overheats and 95-115 temperatures. What should i do?
 
Get a can of compressed air and clean out the fins in the heatsink on the card, they could be collecting dust. Next, try to see if evga precision will change the clockspeed, although it could be a possibility that the heatsink was clogged and got alot of dust in the fan motor, causing the fan to sieze up and not run....
 
Thanks for advices, because some people can just say "buy a new vga". Cleaned out the dust ( wasnt much, because i had cleaned it 30 days ago) , took off the red - black plastic-metal shield from the vga ant turned computer on. Fan worked more cleanly, but same no noise making speed.. Installed evga, adjusted fan speed to 100%, no effect :( Any more suggestions?
 
One thing is very interesting. Anytime i change fan settings in evga or rivatuner, it doesnt change. It gets back to the position it was, eg: gets back to 60 %. looks like something is blocking modifications to my fan. My primary program in fan tuning is expertool , which works every time. (some times i close it before modificating fan with other program) Also i try to tune with rivatuner, sometimes i get speed ups, and i tried speedfan, but it didnt detect my fans. Maybe i'm doing something bad? Maybe this will help you.. ?
 
Hmm... check the fan connection to the gpu board, maybe the connection has become loose? Also.. try updating the drivers for you gpu, maybe that could be causing it?
 
Thanks again, but sadly didn't work. The connector looks pretty good, btw it's 3 pin. And the drivers - i updated them to latest that was in nvidia site, didnt do anything :( . Every time i turn on computer i see 60 % fan speed that's adjusted by default. And the rivatuner + expertool when used both does some speed ups, but for short time. Anymore help?
 
Are there any other PCI cards near or close to the video card? I know I had to move my TV Tuner because there was not enough air flow between the TV tuner and the video card.
 
The air flow thought is a good one. It is also possible that the heat sink on the GPU has come off the processor or the temp sensor is out of whack. You could try re-seating the heat sink on the GPU if you are up to it.
 
Zatharus said:
The air flow thought is a good one. It is also possible that the heat sink on the GPU has come off the processor or the temp sensor is out of whack. You could try re-seating the heat sink on the GPU if you are up to it.
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Thats a very good idea, I would do that. Check your system fans as well, If they are clogged with dust the system might not even be getting the right air flow witch can cause it to over heat as well.
 
the fan won't do much if anything because as you can probably tell from looking at your card, it will most probably have a plastic shield. If is one that is a coil of wire with fan in the middle, then it will help.

You can also try getting a fan like that with a large passive heatsink, if you have mid atx or full atx case i would recomend the arctic cooling accelro s1. It is a big ol' ****er but very light as it is lots of thins strips of aluminium and even without a dedicated air flow over it keeps my 8600GT at 40 idle and never higher than 50 when gaming.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186016

That is it on newegg, they aren't massively expensive, but they are massive, it fits comfortably in a mid atx case though, but if you are working with any smaller than that forget it

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I just looked at the post you put and see that it isn;t in english, so i am taking a wild guess that you aren't in america. Because of that the newegg link is useless because they don't ship outside of America, but the product is still ace, so have a look around sittes that ship to where you live
 
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