Radeon 9800 always overheats!

[SaveYourself]

I have a friend who has an ATI Radeon 9800 that is always overheating and showing artifacts. The artifacts get consistently worse, and then my friend shuts his computer off. The card is not overclocked. My friend has tried adding a Thermaltake Giant II heatpipe-cooler to the card, but that did not solve the problem. He is now investing in a Crystal Orb and some ramsinks. He thinks that it is the memory overheating. Apparently many other people are also suffering from this card overheating, according to him.

thx

 

[Peter D]

thats weird if its artifacting and not overclocked @_@

if the ram sinks dont work, clean it, and see if you can get a new card

 

[JammingJay]

Indeed, I haven't heard of really any cases where a stock video card overheats especially when the fan/heatsink is not defective. Do you have any other info about the card? Has it been flashed Bios? Are you sure the system itself isn't overheating? (Not enough airflow in case?)

 

[CrystalBay]

Once he's modified the card -ie(ram sinks, heatpipes,etc )its tough to RMA it.

 

[SaveYourself]

What's this about a BIOS flash? Is it possible that an outdated version of the BIOS is doing screwy things to the card?

 

[WA261]

Use a TEC on the GPU and some nice ram sinks with a 80mm blowing over them.. =)

If he did not epoxy the gpu/sinks on he should have no problem with an rma.

 

[kylebisme]

probably just got a defective card, should have returned it right away. or maybe the cooling in his case is just really bad.

 

[CrystalBay]

Oh a bad bios flash... Yes try the original bios ..... The radeons use a yellow thermal transfer interface, He might have a tough time RMA ing it. Did he save the shim or remove it? Hope him well....

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: SaveYourself
I have a friend who has an ATI Radeon 9800 that is always overheating and showing artifacts. The artifacts get consistently worse, and then my friend shuts his computer off. The card is not overclocked. My friend has tried adding a Thermaltake Giant II heatpipe-cooler to the card, but that did not solve the problem. He is now investing in a Crystal Orb and some ramsinks. He thinks that it is the memory overheating. Apparently many other people are also suffering from this card overheating, according to him.

thx

If it's doing this at stock speed then he has a defective card and should RMA immediately.