VGA Cooling

[bluntz]

I had to drive all the way to Tampa to find a usb floppy drive.
Get yourself one if you can.
I cringe over 50C on anything is bad, bad.
I use a piece of glass with fine grit sandpaper taped to it to make sure the heat sink is dead flat.
If overheated the sink will distort causing the mating surfaces to separate and loose conduction.
Using anything other than Arctic Silver is not advised.
120C is the melting point for some solders. 100C is boiling 212F
So Shut it down over 100
Also I remove the fans power connection to the video card and power it offboard resulting in much cooler temps usually.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

wow, your running the video card fan off of your motherboard instead?

That sounds like soon to come burnt silicon.

[LambentHammerBurst]

I have that setup (fan powered by mobo). Although my reason is amusing. I have a x1600 Silent. Which means only a heatsink - no fan. Well I had some extra PC 80mm fans laying around, one is mounted on top of the heatsink - it works, card is ~10'c cooler under heavy load.

[AAA]

the new card temps i ain't worried about.

As for the bios, i've tried to update it but the cdrom iso doesn't fucking work. An the board is again an EVGA product.

IDK about EVGA since I always was turned off by that brand for some reason , but MSI has a live update app that can flash your bios from Windows. MSI doesn't recommend updating your bios this way, I did it and it worked for me maybe EVGA has a similar application.

[Lerster]

http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...html#post92336

See this post if you no longer use a floppy drive an need to use a flashrom or any kind've rom update for graphic card/bios etc.

~Cheers.

[foq]

Arctic Silver is easily the best heatsink paste

Welcome to 300 years ago. AS5 has been replaced by newer thermal pastes which are not electrically conductive, are easier to clean and easier to apply, have no "curing" time, and on top of that, have better thermal transfer. Personally, I use Tuniq TX-2 because it's cheap, but Arctic Cooling MX-2 is a better choice for thermals. I hear they have MX-4 now, maybe that's better.

[bluntz]

wow, your running the video card fan off of your motherboard instead?

That sounds like soon to come burnt silicon.

No I am not running it from the motherboard.
I run it from the PSU of course. I don't run the CPU fan from the motherboard either.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

What I meant was, nearly all video cards come stock with a cooling solution.I just find it odd to remove the stock cooling solution that the high end card came with. They are normally very adequate...

[foq]

What I meant was, nearly all video cards come stock with a cooling solution.I just find it odd to remove the stock cooling solution that the high end card came with. They are normally very adequate...

For once, I agree with you. Typically, a GTX 560 Ti ships with a dual-slot cooler, which should be more the enough to cool that GPU. He shouldn't be hitting 70c at 100% fan speed under typical gaming load (OCCT/Furmark I can understand, but Nvidia purposely throttles their cards in those 2 programs to prevent their sub-par power circuitry from exploding). Even my GTX260, which should take more power than the GTX 560 Ti, runs at about 65c under [email protected] load.

Lerster, has it been 60 years since you dusted out your computer?

[napalm]

I run a geforce 9800 gt 1gb ddr3 pci slot EVGA nvidea, it came stock with a huge fan, never had a problem. Its quiet and I keep my cp on 24/7, I only play Q1 maybe thas why its never overheated. Good luck...

Cheers
napalm

[foq]

nvidea, never heard of them

[bluntz]

What I meant was, nearly all video cards come stock with a cooling solution.I just find it odd to remove the stock cooling solution that the high end card came with. They are normally very adequate...

I am always looking for ways to improve cooling.
My 9400 GT did not even come with a fan at all.
Would you say that was adequate? Would you OC with it?
If you are not supplying the fan from the PSU you ARE powering it from the motherboard.
High Temps are not only caused from too much power flow but by too LITTLE.
So Ler the Motherboard may not be giving enough power to the card.
Power the fan from the PSU and retest it may be this simple.

[foq]

Of course a passive heatsink on a 9400gt would be aequate...

[Lerster]

For once, I agree with you. Typically, a GTX 560 Ti ships with a dual-slot cooler, which should be more the enough to cool that GPU. He shouldn't be hitting 70c at 100% fan speed under typical gaming load (OCCT/Furmark I can understand, but Nvidia purposely throttles their cards in those 2 programs to prevent their sub-par power circuitry from exploding). Even my GTX260, which should take more power than the GTX 560 Ti, runs at about 65c under [email protected] load.

Lerster, has it been 60 years since you dusted out your computer?

I didn't hit 72C with the 560TI at 100% fan speed, i hit 72C at default fanspeed in battlefield 2: bad company.

Eitherway i don't believe its the card, it's my mainboard for sure. Bug in the mainboard itself, as it crashes new games, i don't believe its the card.

--Soon as my mainboard and new cpu fan/heatsink come, i'm transplanting my cpu in this pc into the new board, and transferring the graphic card an other shit over.

If the problem remains, then i'm cursed.

If it disappears, i know it was the mainboard.

[foq]

72c at default fan speed isn't anything to worry about. Default fan profiles tend to let the card get nice and toasty until the temps get dangerous (72c isn't dangerous), then the fan rips up to cool it down.