Video card overheating?

[Jtardiou]

It's been acting really flakey lately. When I run CS, it kind of tweaks out and lines appear all over the place. I touched the card and it was pretty hot and I checked the fan to see if it still spinning and it appeared to run fine.

On the desktop, it doesn't tweak - but after I run Counter-Strike, i have to turn off the computer because it tweaks on the desktop so I have to give it a break.

Is it overheating? Why? Is there anything I can do? Are there any temperature monitors? Does this happen often with 9800 pros? Should I get a new heatsink?

Thanks in advance crew,
JST

 

[SofaKing]

Yeah it is probably overheating. 9800 PROs typically run extremely hot. did you oc it? maybe you should get an arctic vga silencer.

 

[ayman]

Originally posted by: SofaKing
Yeah it is probably overheating. 9800 PROs typically run extremely hot. did you oc it? maybe you should get an arctic vga silencer.

arctic vga silencer.

 

[Jtardiou]

Could it be the monitor dying maybe?

Will turning the memory and core clock down fix this? Run it cooler?

 

[impemonk]

It's most liekly the video card. Its breathing its last breathe, and telling you to upgrade to an ATI X800 brand line series or Nvidia's 6800 line series... which is a pretty good thing.

 

[Jtardiou]

OK guys, I switched the powersupply with this old 350W I found and the video card works fine now. I guess it was never the video card but I kind of have this new problem.

Ever since I put the new PSU in, the CPU FAN is REALLY loud. Why is it doing this? Can I fix this? How?

Thanks in advance,
JST

 

[dguy6789]

Maybe the fan was being underpowered before, and just now is getting the power it needs? As long as the system runs fine, then dont worry about it.

 

[Jtardiou]

It's realllllllllllllly loud : (

 

[mwmorph]

overpower on the rails?

 

[impemonk]

its whispering to you: "GeeEeEeeeEeeeEEeeT aNnoOOootthhhhHHherRrr vodeo card" jkjk. I'd agree with dguy on the fan being underpowered in the beginning. If you want, try buying a fan for your CPU that is small.

 

[dbailey]

or you can buy a thing to lower the voltage to your fan on your cpu which will make it spin slower.. forgot what you call that thing. And don't buy a smaller fan, buy a bigger one which will spin slower, smaller fans have higher rpm's generally(for cpu's) and spin faster to cool.