My 9800Pro overheat

[welst10]

Today is THE hottest day of the year with high 95F. And my 9800pro overheats for the 1st time. During UT2004, PC just freezed. I had to physically shut down and reboot. Upon reboot, error message comes up says "power cable not connected to video card...". I opened the case for couple minutes, then reboot and everything is fine. Wow. This card is so sensitive to the room temp!

Mine is overclocked to 426/366. 3Dmarks03 score 6553 with Cat driver 4.6

 

[roten]

At least you can overclock yours!
I just returned my 1 week old 9800pro because it started displaying more and more artifacts and then just froze. No overclock, nice cool night...
The shop gave me a new one no worries, they didn't even check out the dud.
I hope you manage to get a stable overclock for your card.

 

[welst10]

Originally posted by: roten
At least you can overclock yours!
I just returned my 1 week old 9800pro because it started displaying more and more artifacts and then just froze. No overclock, nice cool night...
The shop gave me a new one no worries, they didn't even check out the dud.
I hope you manage to get a stable overclock for your card.

My OC is stable until yesterday. Yesterday is too hot. I guess I will lower it to 420/360.

 

[Nebor]

Squirt some mustard on there.