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Video card overheating?

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Jtardiou

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