gf4 ti4200 heat problems

[PayMaster]

I have an msi gf4 ti4200 card, recently my system has been having serious heat problems, after testing of each peripherals i found out that without the card it was much more stable, however I lack performance of the gf4 using a gf2 as backup, anyone ever heard of similar problems or ways to solve this?

Could it be the heatsink? their thermal glue? bad airflow?

thanks for any help

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I'm going to say "bad airflow".

The lack of ramsinks and the ambient heat generated by a TBird 1.4 will make that case ridiculously toasty inside. Duct your CPU straight out the side panel or back of the case, and direct some airflow at your Ti4200.

- M4H

 

[sep]

Yes, a friend has a system with poor air flow and the system was unstable with his 4200. Once he replaced fans, and redirected air flow it's now stable.

Take the case side off, blow a house fan on the card as much as possible. This might tell you if it's a cooling problem.

Also, crank you AC to help.

-JC

 

[Mingon]

Are you sure its not your PSU ? the more load placed on it the more heat it will produce

 

[PayMaster]

Well opening the side panel and using a house fan is what i've been doing for a while, but it gets worst and worst all the time also my tbird is quite cool for what it is, I used to think the CPU was the problem, until i swapped video cards

Now I'm wondering if the card would still be fine should I move it on a newer system

I'll also specify this, the whole system was running 100% stable a few months back in closed case, now I can't do that, since then i also declocked my CPU to its original speed (1400) since I believe it was the source of the problem

 

[Mingon]

if your heatsink seems quite cool perhaps its not conducting the heat, try re-applying goop and then re seat.

 

[sep]

Originally posted by: PayMaster

Now I'm wondering if the card would still be fine should I move it on a newer system

do you have a system to test this?

 

[PayMaster]

Not a performant one... as for the heatsink The MSI heatsink doesnt budge at all and its as if it would break if i forced it but im still trying