eVGA 6800GT Overheats? Glithces in BF2... System Sluggish

[hAxsYn]

After a good 1-2 hour play of Battlefield 2, my eVGA 6800GT 256MB begins to glitch. I see screen flashes and jagged edges out of no where, while Im playing. I then exited BF2 and my system worked extremely slow, and there were color lines and glitches on my desktop. I barely shut down the computer. After restarting, I checked the temp on the card ... 63 degrees C. Is that anywhere close to normal? This never happened before... Should I consider a better heatsink/fan? Please advise. Thank you.

 

[whozyodaddy]

Is it stock or have you overclocked it?

 

[hAxsYn]

Everything is stock. No tweaks, nothing...

Could it be the memory or chipsets that are overheating? I doubt its the processor because the heatsink was very cool.

Im running BF2 at all high settings on the 77.30 drivers. Ill dowload the 77.72 drivers and see what happens.

 

[hAxsYn]

Still glitching... could it be the drivers? Or the PSU.. I read on some forums that the PSU might not be giving the card enough power causing it to malfunction... Please help, Im playing the game and Im seeing jagged figures everytime I move... Much appreciated, thanks.

 

[eXx08]

With the Antec PSU your running (right?) thePSU should be fine. It could be the drivers and it could also be the heatsink. I'd download the drivers and see what happens. Do you run your PC 24/7? If so give it a break shut it down for about an hour turn it on and see if that works. If all this doesn't work purchse a new Heatsink. If that doesn't work Test a different PSU. After all this and it still doesn't work your card may be dying out. Replace it.

 

[rise]

try runnig rthdribl as you monitor the temps and see what happens. it will heat it up in a hurry.

the evgas are great cards but their hsf are a bit weak. you may want to take it off and apply some as5 and remount it making sure its making good contact.

i usually put a zalman vf700 on mine.

 

[Frodolives]

Originally posted by: rise4310

the evgas are great cards but their hsf are a bit weak. you may want to take it off and apply some as5 and remount it making sure its making good contact.

I was thinking this same thing. They can be deceptive and may even have poor contact. Wouldn't be the first time.

Good luck anyway, sucks to have a great card and can't enjoy your game! Oh, and I guess you know that evga has an 800 number. It's posted at their site of course.

 

[Continuity27]

My eVGA was at over 100C and still going strong, this likely is not an issue of video card temperature alone. It's temperature can be affecting other components making them overheat though, or this could be related to something besides heat. I don't understand how mine could handle over 100C, 135C throttle and yours can't go to 70C?

 

[hAxsYn]

I read somewhere that you can mess around with the settings, but on all medium, it still glitches... Help is still appreciated. Anyone else with BF2 background glitches?

 

[rise]

what is the load temp? run rthdrbl and watch the temp on the control panel. when you exti a game the temp can drop 10c in a second or 2.

 

[hAxsYn]

On rthdrbl, the working temp is 83 degrees C. Once I close rthdrbl, temp gradually goes back down in the low 60s C. Still cant figure out what the problem is. After playing for about 1 hour, the background still glitches... And after exiting the game, I still get artifacts/glitches on my desktop... Help is still appreciated.

 

[darksum]

hmm thats an excellent card, probably hs problem

 

[BurnItDwn]

STUPID QUESTION: Have you tried installing the latest detonaters? (If not, go do it)

 

[hAxsYn]

As stated in my second post, Im running 77.72 drivers... I also think its a heating problem. Im running all high settings, my case is somewhat cluttered (although I have 2 exhaust and 2 intake fans [4 fans] + my PSU has 2 fans [intake/exhaust]) so the card probably gets very hot (heatsink feels very hot after rthdribl etc...) and the fact that the problem rises after a certain amount of play & strain, the card probably begins to malfunction. On to the next question, what is the best heatsink/fan I can get for my 6800GT? Please advise. Thanks.

 

[knothead34]

your using pc 2100? can you use pc 3200? with that board?

 

[rise]

get the zalman vf700 al/cu or cu. i like the al/cu as its lighter and cools almost the same. zzf usually has a good price on them.

83c isn't outrageous though but i'm assuming you didn't run it for very long?

 

[theexister]

This is my first post here.

I got me an evga 6800GT AGP yesterday & I installed the drivers that came on the CD with the box. Its a 51.xx driver.

I am already getting some high temps on it.

Its idling at 65-68C and as of now have run only GP4 at high specs and the card temp went upto 73-75C

I have a Super LANBoy chassis running 2x120mm fans...one in the front sucking in air & one on the rear exhausting.

I also have a Antec Truepower 480 which is again exhausting hot air with the help of 2 fans.

What I noticed was that while GP4 the game sort of stutterred in between. I have a feeling it could be bcos of the monitor I am using which is running at 1024x768@60Hz. It cant get beyond that. I have already ordered for another monitor since this is going into my second rig.

Also I was surprised when I looked at the fan placement on the card. The fan faces downward which wasnt what I expected since there is no way the hot air can get out since the exhaust fan of the chassis is on top.

So I either have to take off the the metal strips covering the lower-rear of the chassis in order to allow the hot air to get out.

My question is it better I upgrade to the latest Forceware drivers on Nvidia cos I heard about wrong temps being shown on older drivers.

Is the heat too much?
Since I live in India (yes this might also explain one of the reasons for the temp) getting AS5 is impossible. I have to ship it through a friend of mine.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Sorry hAxsYn for hijacking your post.

My System Specs:

MOBO - Gigabyte K8VM800M (Via 8237)
CPU - AMD 64Athlon 2800+
MEMORY - Transcend 2x512MB PC3200
GRAPHICS CARD - evga 6800GT 256MB AGP
Benq DVD Writer
Seagate 80GB SATA
PSU - Antec True Power 480
Chassis - Antec Super LAN Boy

 

[theexister]

BUMP

 

[luigi1]

I also have an egva 6800gt. Mine started overheating while playing guild wars. Guild Wars support sugested pointing a fan at the GPU with the side of the case removed. That and not running anti virus in real time have solved that problem. I also play BF2 and I havent had any problems but I do have the side removed and a fan blowing in. Just wanted to chime in that others have expierenced overheating with that card on stresfull games.

 

[hAxsYn]

I tidied up the case and cleaned all the fans. I also gave the video card its own dedicated molex connector (not split) and removed an uneccessary CDRW drive. I stopped getting glitches, but now my memory (DDR RAM) and my video card overheat so much, the computer shuts off... The temps inside the case go above 44 degrees C (Idle is 30ish) and the computer shuts off. The cpu & heatsink are cool as hell, but the my memory chips & h-sinks and the 6800GT burn like fire after playing BF2 (this is if the computer hasnt already shut off). HELP! Ive tried leaving the side of the case open, no help. I think my case is too air restrictive or whatever. Should I get a new case? If so, which cases are good under $80 or so (I want to get the 6800GT hs/fan + new case for around $100). Help/suggestions -- thanks.

 

[theexister]

I removed the Molex Fan connector pin and instead attached the usual molex to the fans so they run at full speed. Temps are down a bit by about 2-3C.
I find it odd hAxsYn that the computer shuts off at 44C case temp cos sometimes and especially this summer mine was sometimes around the 50C and I never had this problem.

Maybe it is your case. It isnt routing air well. A picture would really help.

 

[hAxsYn]

Here are pics (still messy, but better than it was before...) (any suggestions welcome) --> Pic 1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4 Pic5

 

[Sean Maxwell]

sounds like you need to unload the PC2100 memory you have.. sell it off and shoot for higher speed, atleast PC3200.. its very cheap these days.. use newegg to find a stick you want.. then throw it into pricegrabber.com search

 

[hAxsYn]

What would the memory type have to do with it? Its bottlenecking the system and making it overheat?

 

[hAxsYn]

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