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GTX 460 overheating? - edit:Nope, mobo

Ken g6

Ken g6

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I've suddenly developed a problem with my MSI GTX 460. Once yesterday and once today, while running PrimeGrid CW sieve, it suddenly developed a hissing sound; then, before I could do anything, the computer rebooted. The hissing sound remained until I powered off and on again.

I assume the hissing is a fan or fans (it has two) going to maximum speed. But why the reboot? Is it [thread=2114841]drawing too much power[/thread]?

Also, I imagine I need to clean dust out of there. Is there any way to do it without removing the card? (You may recall, getting it in there in the first place destroyed one motherboard.) I've tried a vacuum at the port and canned air to the side; neither seemed to have much effect.
 
well.. without actually hearing the hissing sound... we're all going to take guesses... could possibly be a filter cap on the input power to the card.

do you know what your voltages are going into the card?.. are they steady and clean?
 
theAnimal said:
If you've installed the driver, you can type nvidia-settings in a console to see the temps.
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60C at most; but I haven't gotten a look just before the sound starts.

The interesting thing is F@H work got it to ~62, and Furmark has gotten it to 68 in the past without causing this.


dajeepster said:
well.. without actually hearing the hissing sound... we're all going to take guesses... could possibly be a filter cap on the input power to the card.

do you know what your voltages are going into the card?.. are they steady and clean?
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Beats me. I have the 256.53 drivers on Ubuntu Linux 9.04. There's not much I can tell you aside from the temps.

Edit: I can tell you it's been running for five months without trouble until now.
 
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Well, turns out it wasn't the GPU. I think my motherboard died...again. This time I'd had some warning signs: sometimes when rebooting my overclocking settings disappeared. Today I had a power outage and afterwards it simply wouldn't boot.

I put the hard drive in another machine for now - running Linux so it's not complaining like Windows would, thank God!

Now, to get a third mobo, or to sell the CPU and RAM (Q9400, 4GB DDR2), and get something better?
 
I've got a real nice DFI X48 mobo with three PCI-E x16 physical slots (x16/x16/x4 electrical). I got two of them, but only built with one of them. Had it running two GTX460 1GB cards @ 820, and a Q6600 @ 3.6, for the month of December.

Only problem is, it was expensive for me, so it's not going to be cheap for you. But if you want to buy one of the best S775 mobos out there, give me a PM. It's still brand-new in the box.

LT&


You would need to buy one of the new cases with 8 expansion slots if you wanted to run three dual-slot GTX460s on this board, like the new Antec 100. Fairly inexpensive, good cooling.
 
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Thanks, but that is rather more than I wanted to do right now. That's about equivalent to building a new computer! And if I was going to do that, I'd want to get a new Sandy Bridge mobo.
 
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