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My video card has been overclocked since about day 1 to 1230 / 440 and has never had a single artifact in 3dmark / aquamark or any game i've ever played (hl2/cs:s/cs/farcry/doom3). I've been playing Guild Wars for about a week or two now without any problems. Two nights ago, however, I went to play and realized my computer was off. I didn't remember shutting it off so I went to turn it on and couldn't. I ultimately had to flip the switch on the PSU before it would boot back up. I played GW for about 10-15 minutes and the computer shut off again. Same way to restart. I felt the PSU and it was very warm as well as the video card. You could keep your hand on it but it was close to being too hot to touch. After letting the computer sit all day, I double checked all the connections to the video card [assuming this is the problem] and all the cables going into the neopower. I started the computer again and logged onto GW in windowed mode. I left the temperature settings for the video card open on the side and filled everywhere else with the game. I played for about 10 minutes and the temperature was climbing about a degree or two a minute. It peaked at 78 before I decided it was getting too hot and shut off the computer again. The ambient temperatures are around 30-35 degrees [all temperatures celsius].
My guess is that it was the power supply's active current protection or whatever it has included, because if the motherboard shut itself off I'm not sure why it wouldn't boot once again until the switch on the PSU was switched. Should I look into getting an aftermarket cooler for the GPU maybe with some arctic silver? Or do you think that the problem is elsewhere? I didn't monitor the CPU temps but I've never seen them over 63 and I've never had a problem with them that high. Thanks for any and all help...
-steveo
My video card has been overclocked since about day 1 to 1230 / 440 and has never had a single artifact in 3dmark / aquamark or any game i've ever played (hl2/cs:s/cs/farcry/doom3). I've been playing Guild Wars for about a week or two now without any problems. Two nights ago, however, I went to play and realized my computer was off. I didn't remember shutting it off so I went to turn it on and couldn't. I ultimately had to flip the switch on the PSU before it would boot back up. I played GW for about 10-15 minutes and the computer shut off again. Same way to restart. I felt the PSU and it was very warm as well as the video card. You could keep your hand on it but it was close to being too hot to touch. After letting the computer sit all day, I double checked all the connections to the video card [assuming this is the problem] and all the cables going into the neopower. I started the computer again and logged onto GW in windowed mode. I left the temperature settings for the video card open on the side and filled everywhere else with the game. I played for about 10 minutes and the temperature was climbing about a degree or two a minute. It peaked at 78 before I decided it was getting too hot and shut off the computer again. The ambient temperatures are around 30-35 degrees [all temperatures celsius].
My guess is that it was the power supply's active current protection or whatever it has included, because if the motherboard shut itself off I'm not sure why it wouldn't boot once again until the switch on the PSU was switched. Should I look into getting an aftermarket cooler for the GPU maybe with some arctic silver? Or do you think that the problem is elsewhere? I didn't monitor the CPU temps but I've never seen them over 63 and I've never had a problem with them that high. Thanks for any and all help...
-steveo
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