Overheating system fix

[pspada]

With the hot weather (up to about 90c here near the beach in San Diego), my system and CPU temps had jumped quite a bit - running about 40c case temp, and 56c CPU temp. While the system works fine at this level, as soon as I try to play any 3D games, the sytem would begin to stutter, the games would crash, and sometimes the sytem would reboot. Checking into the problem, I couldn't help but notice that the back of my video card was becoming extremely hot. So I decided to try some cooling solution for this side of the card to see if it helped my system. I used black conductive thermal tape to stick an Iceberq 4 I had lying around to the back of the card, covering 2 of the ram chips and the area corresponding to the GPU. Plugged it in, closed the box up, and booted.

System temps now: 34c case, 53/54c CPU. And 3D games run just fine now.

 

[viivo]

Originally posted by: pspada
With the hot weather (up to about 90c here near the beach in San Diego).

It's 194f in California? I knew all that smog would hasten global warming.

I hate summer. Running tornados at full to stay near 45c can get irritating.

 

[jdiddy]

Originally posted by: viivo

Originally posted by: pspada
With the hot weather (up to about 90c here near the beach in San Diego).

It's 194f in California? I knew all that smog would hasten global warming.

I hate summer. Running tornados at full to stay near 45c can get irritating.

He probably meant 90F i think everyone here in California would be dead by 160.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: jdiddy

He probably meant 90F i think everyone here in California would be dead by 160.

I dunno, if they can live in that smog, they can probably survive ANYTHING.

as for RAMsinking your video cards: WOW does it help. My radeon 9800pro's RAM was burning hot even at stock speeds. I put on some RAMsinks, and now with a fan blowing on them I can run my memory at 380 MHz

 

[stardust]

I live in the Bay Area and the wind blows the smog down south to LA

Anyway, during the summer I just leave the side of my case open.

 

[pspada]

No real smog down here in San Diego - and yes, I did mean 90F.

Strangely enough, my system runs hotter with the side of the case off - unless I have a floor fan blowing into it.

 

[Bad Dude]

So you glue the Iceberg on the back of the GPU and not on the RAM chips right? What card do you have? If it's the Radeon 9800 Pro then how did you do it? There are some small electronics parts in the back of the GPU. Do you have any pics?
Thanks.