Heat question for a eVGA 7800GTX card

[Cr0nJ0b]

So i ran into a strange issue the other day. I rebooted my PC and the screen was garbled...even the BIOS screen was garbled with lines and other trash. It wouldn't boot into windows and I was in a perpetual reboot cycle. My first thought was a bad BIOS, so I swapped the bios chip (i happened to have another). and it booted into the Bios ok...but then I noticed after a few minutes I got those lines back...the next time I rebooted, it was trashed again. So I turned the system off completely and went to eVGA to get and RMA. I started the RMA process, but about an hour later I turned the system on again to see if cooling it down would have an effect...and sure enough...it booted fine. It's been running for about a week now, with no issues. I don't generally reboot, so it's on all the time.

The temp from the Nvidia control panel shows 60C at idle and 73C after about and hour of BF2. again, I'm not seeing any video artifacts or lockups, but I'm wondering if this is high? I'm also worried that something is wrong with the memory on the board etc.

Last question...is there a good program to monitor the video cards temp? I tried SpeedFan, but I don't see anything that shows the video card. I can go into the properites page and pull the heat from there, but I would like a desktop monitor that could track heat.

thanks

 

[BassBomb]

your psu cannot handle your card

your card at 73 is NOT high at all especially for a 7800GTX

 

[moonboy403]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
your psu cannot handle your card

your card at 73 is NOT high at all especially for a 7800GTX

not neccessarily true since i was powering up my overclocked x2 system along with a x1900xt and all was fine

what psu are you using cronjob?

my guess is faulty memory on your 7800 gtx

how long have you had the card?
did you overclock your card?

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I'm using an x-connect 550 PSU. Never had any issues with it before. It seems to be keeping up quite well with the system. I'm glad to hear that the Vid card isn't hot by most standards. That's what worried me. The tech support guy suspected bad video ram, which is why he gave me the RMA. It's only about 5 months old...but I'm not really hot to break down my system for a week while they ship the replacement.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

bump

 

[Thor86]

If you are using the stock cooler, then those temps look normal. Maybe time to clean out the dust build-up in your case, or try and get better case air flow.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I think my case temp is ok. I have an antec p180 which keeps things pretty well cooled. Usually the case stays around 35C and the CPU may hit 45C after heavy BF2 work for hours. I'm coming back around to thinking it's the Vid memory, which means an RMA, which I hate.