9700 pro overheating

[Evdawg]

Ive got a built by and manufactured red board ati 9700 pro..... at stock clock speeds. Ive been testing it out a lot lately cause its pretty new. Right now if i touch the board, its red hot.... hurts to touch it, its that hot. Ill turn on my moniter and open IE in the mornign after i wake up and its still boiling hot. WHen i game for a while, it tends to shut down on me cuz its overheating. Just wondering what the problem was here, and if someone can help me. Thx

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Evdawg
Ive got a built by and manufactured red board ati 9700 pro..... at stock clock speeds. Ive been testing it out a lot lately cause its pretty new. Right now if i touch the board, its red hot.... hurts to touch it, its that hot. Ill turn on my moniter and open IE in the mornign after i wake up and its still boiling hot. WHen i game for a while, it tends to shut down on me cuz its overheating. Just wondering what the problem was here, and if someone can help me. Thx

Check the fan make sure it didnt die, mine did last week after almost a year. I went and got a new copper one for it and all is good. The Zalman Iceberq works well for these cards and only about 16 bucks.

 

[Evdawg]

rgr, fans spinning..... btw, i touch the back of the card, the ram, and the sink... all spots are hotter than... u know where

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Evdawg
rgr, fans spinning..... btw, i touch the back of the card, the ram, and the sink... all spots are hotter than... u know where

Hmm when mine got that hot it was from the fan dieing. Mine was the same thing very hot to the touch, the thing is the fan would spin sometimes and sometimes it wouldnt. That made it hard to know what was wrong till it stopped spinning completely.

I say spend 16 bucks if you can get the one I got then go from there.

How is your case airflow?

 

[Evdawg]

case airflow is ok... got 1 in front one in back.... 80 mm. btw this card is pretty new... fan shouldnt be dead, that is of course i got a lemon fan.

 

[Slappy00]

I had the exact same problem.. so much so that my games would crash in warm weather. Hell I had to put a circular fan pointing directly at the card to play raven shield. Anyways I finally got sick of that and got a EXOS water-cooling kit for a total of $300 now even in 90F heat i can still oc the card to 370/329, no artifacts in 3dmark03. I would suggest to try a new fan. Removing the old fan and putting a new one in is reletively painless, and took me all of 3 min. I dont know what to do about the memory. I know that Koolance makes this non-conductive foam you can put on HDD circutry to water-cool it. I guess i can do the same for the Radeon but that woudl be impractical, but I degress. Get a new fan and maybe some memory heatsinks you can epoxy on the memory IC chips. or put a fan that blows into your case...

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

How many hard drives do you have in there and what are you room temperatures?

Exchange it for a new one because of the problem, otherwise buy a new one for it. I'd go for a Zalman if you n eed to buy a new one

 

[Evdawg]

ive been looking at the heatpipe coolers.... they look nice. and of course, silent. yea when my room gets hot, i put a box fan blowing into my pc to keep it cool. ive got 1 hdd, 1 cdrw... and my cpu and ram.. that be all


heres my full stats,

XP 2500 oc'd to 2.3ghz
Asus a7n8x 2.0 deluxe
Corsair XMS plat silver heat spread
1 maxtor 60 gig 7200 rpm, 2mb cache (old yes i kno 😉)
CPU heatsink is a thermaltake volcano 11
80 mm fans x 2 front and back

 

[Goi]

The R300 core is a hot lil chip, but I think ATI would've taken that into consideration when designing its thermal solution for it. That said, I replaced my stock ATI hsf with a beefier 1U CPU cooler and added ramsinks too.

 

[INemtsev]

Just put a better fan on it and it should be fine...I put a Vantec little baby and it runs better than before

 

[robcy]

All of the 9700pro's that I have worked with ran very, very hot. Mine would crash under games, and benchmarks. I put a Crystal Ord, and some copper mem sinks on it, and that seems to have worked. I can overclock, and play games without any crashes. The mem sinks get pretty hot, so that means they are working. I used AS3 on the Orb, and AS Epoxy on the mem sinks.

 

[Evdawg]

rgr ill replace the fan, which should i go with? crystal orb or a different solution? seems like the crystal orb is the most popular...

 

[Goi]

AFAIK the crystal orb has been around for a long long time, ever since the GeForce 256 days if I'm not wrong. I'm sure the R300 core running at 9700 Pro speeds are much hotter than a GF256, so I'm not sure if its a good idea...

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Evdawg
rgr ill replace the fan, which should i go with? crystal orb or a different solution? seems like the crystal orb is the most popular...

Use the one I mentioned the Vantec Iceberq, it runs about 16 bucks its all copper and even has a cool blue LED built in for those with see through side panels on there cases.




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