Graphics Card Overheating

[Flamehead]

My graphics card is boiling hot for no reason. Right now its 77 C and im on facepunch only. I just spent the last 30 cleaning the dust out of my computer and its still REALLY hot. Is there only way that I can cool down my graphics card.

Here is a screenshot from speccy.

[IMG]http://i948.photobucket.com/albums/ad326/Nic_man/WTF.jpg[/IMG]

[editline]01:21AM[/editline]

Now its 86C

[editline]01:31AM[/editline]

Any help?!

[Jah'maaun]

Try turning up your fan cycle. What is your fan cycle at right now? Username fits lol

[Flamehead]

[QUOTE=Jah'maaun;22524966]Try turning up your fan cycle. What is your fan cycle at right now? Username fits lol[/QUOTE]

How do I edit that, I am on vista.

[Jake_Steel]

I'm going to take a stab and say you have a Radeon HD 4850. The single slot coolers on those suck and when at idle it sets the default fan speed to 0% which results in high idle temps.

You can manually set the fan speed by going to the CCC (click on that ATi icon in the bottom right) and when you open that up go to overdrive and click unlock then manually adjust the fan speed via the slider. (put it at around 25-30%)

Also you need to set it back to auto when you play a game.

[Taipan]

77 is fine.
Make sure it is under 90 degrees when under load.

[Flamehead]

[QUOTE=taipan;22533759]77 is fine.
Make sure it is under 90 degrees when under load.[/QUOTE]

Thats the problem, Its over 90 C when im playing stalker. Then it just shuts down... :(

[editline]07:56PM[/editline]

I set the fan rotation to 35% and its still 88-89 C

[editline]07:58PM[/editline]

I just set the fan speed to 70% just to air it out, It was 90-91 C

[Flamehead]

Please help me, I cant play any games :(

[Jake_Steel]

Download HWMonitor: [url]http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html[/url]

And are these load temps or idle temps? 90-91C for a load temp is fine but you need to see what the temp is at it's highest point so download that and play a game for 2min and then post what the load temp is.

[Flamehead]

I have speccy allready, I was playing garrysmod 30-40 mins ago. I checked speccy and it was 102 degrees C

[tesher07]

Look up heatsinks for you card. I am using an 8800gt and before the heatsink I was at your temps up to 103c and after the heatsink during the year I max 50c underload and over summer (now) I max 60c. I use Zalman heatsink.

[Taipan]

Did you ever take of the heatsink?
If yes did you reapply the thermal paste?

[Blackwater]

Just keep it a at a fixed and high fanspeed, that can sustain it in games. Won't matter if it needs 100%, you can game again.

[Yuluthu]

check any cables that could be blocking airflow, heatsink could be mis-placed, might need more thermal paste

also, spray some WD-40 in there WHILST IT IS RUNNING, fan could be bogged down with dust

[pikzen]

Don't worry OP,my 8600GT recently went to 121°C :D
Sir M, are you sure spraying grease would make things better ? If WD-40 is not electrically neutral, this could result in a few problems :/

[[EG] Pepper]

[QUOTE=pikzen;22563402]Don't worry OP,my 8600GT recently went to 121°C :D
Sir M, are you sure spraying grease would make things better ? If WD-40 is not electrically neutral, this could result in a few problems :/[/QUOTE]

actually you might wanna check that

same thing happened to my xfx 5750 after i reseated the cooler

turned out the heatsink had a plastic thing on it with a hole in it for the GPU and the GPU was half on the plastic

went to around 117 Celcius the most it gets not is maybe 65 (while i was peeling the plastic off i lapped the cooler and put some MX2 on there)

[Trafficman]

My 4870 overheats like hell. I'm selling it and getting a 5770.

[pikzen]

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;22563639']actually you might wanna check that

same thing happened to my xfx 5750 after i reseated the cooler

turned out the heatsink had a plastic thing on it with a hole in it for the GPU and the GPU was half on the plastic

went to around 117 Celcius the most it gets not is maybe 65 (while i was peeling the plastic off i lapped the cooler and put some MX2 on there)[/QUOTE]

This only happen in BFBC2 though, on all the other games I'm at about 85°
I recently removed the thermal paste and put some new (AC5), I'm still at these high temperatures. 67°C when idling. My card has a poor 60mm fan though, I'm starting to think that it's here only to make noise :v:

[[EG] Pepper]

thats still too high, if ac5 is doing fuck all then try reseat the cooler and while at it check for plastic shit.

my 8800GS has a 60mm fan and it gets to around 60 degrees at full load