My ATI X700 had a bad case of heatstroke
 

Yesterday, I went out and bought me a NVIDIA 7600 GS OC w/ 512mb of vram.

The reason was that the ATI card could and did heat up my room all by itself:o while playing SH3 or CoD2 online.

Then this morning while I was playing SH3 I sank a small tanker w/ the gun.

Then the power went out.:damn: :damn: :damn: Of all the luck.:nope:

With deepest sympathy :yep:

Look like you had a bad case of non vetilation. If you bought one bigger fan, you probably could lower the internal temperature of the card.

I use a passive cooled GC and is working out very well!

That now has been remedied. I moved some of the cables around in the case.

That did solve some of the heating problem. I have 5 fans running in my case.

:o

Nice problem solver.

And I do understand what you mean by it could heat up the whole room. At winter times, my comp is on almost 24/7 (it's on anyway so no difference). It's a wondefull heater. My old comp had it's sides down to increase ventilationa nd it heated up the room just nicely. Did you know the the processor is the most effective energy/temperature given thingy in the whole wide world :yep:

Let's make a CPU heater! :rock:

Yup, I have no choice but to remove the case when I play 'heavy' games. Or else the over-heat alarm goes off after a few minutes.

If you can Deep-6 try and upgrade to a better heatsink and fan combo for your CPU. That alonewill help alot to drop temps. Now this will sound dumb but... get a PCI fan and install it it under your graphix card. That will aslo help get ride of more heat. And also a fan for your HDD. Radio Shake has all 3 made by Thermaltake in some of their better stores. I did the above last month and it helped a great deal. I've got 11 fans in my case now. 4 filtered intakes and 7 exhaust. ;) My Thermaltake v1000A case came with 7 plus 2 in the PSU. With the HDD fan and PCI fan that makes 11.

Now for the hard part..... make sure you have filtered intake fans. They'll keep the crud out which is what you want most of all. The crud and dust sucked into the case is what will make things heat up faster than a cat on a hot tin roof. Pardon the expression but it's true. Never ever, if you can help it, leave the sidecover open. That's only asking for trouble. And to the filters, add the dry dusting cloth cut to fit. I bought a box of Grime Boss Dusting Cloths that I found at Wal-Mart. Works better than the stock fan filters.

This is especally important for all of those that buy those store-bought computers. Check inside the case once a week to see how clean it is. If it looks dirty, take the time to clean it out, and do heatsink with canned air. The fan blades can be cleaned with canned air, but more than likely will need to be scrubbed with a Q-tip too.

Reason I say this is.... my son-in-law hadn't looked insde his computer case for 2 years. :nope: There was so much dust and crud in it that it was a wonder it didn't catch fire. It also ran slower than death warmed over until it was cleaned out. The cleaning alone took over 2 hours. LOL It runs better but the damage was already done. :roll:

That is so true. I do have a filter on my intake fan. What I need to do now is buy a second intake fan where my HDD is. A yes, I have been thinking about buying fans for inside my case. Just have not gotten around to it yet. But will do so when I have the money to do it. (NEED A JOB).:D

My ATI 9800 Pro used to overheat badly with high end games until I upgraded the cooling on both the card and the cpu (Sempron 3000+). The Zalman AGP and CPU coolers I installed are definitely worth a look if you don't have them already. http://www.zalman.co.kr/
Might be worth looking at the northbridge cooling as well.

Maybe I should try that, my x850 runs stupidly hot, and sadly even with an all aluminum case I can't get decent airflow in it. I've tweaked the card to make the fan run faster though, I guess by default the ATI cards only run at 50% rpm on their fans? That helped a little bit.

I'm going to upgrade to an NVIDIA again here someday, problem is I need to get a whole new motherboard, memory, processesor before doing that.

I must be lucky. My computer is in our basement where it is cool by nature. Besides, being inside the bowels of my house makes me feel like I'm in the control room LOL. In my humble opinion, dust build up is the number one killer, dead fans are the next killer in line.

Well now that DX10 is right around the corner, the Geforce 8800 seems the best choice.

This information is invaluable to me as I have my Tower in close proximity to my Multi-fuel stove [unfortunately, my computer won't heat up the room] and I get coal dust all over the place; especially now as I'm feeding the stove like a Locomotive due to advancement of BBRRRRR Weather !
Thanks for the tips.:up:

Oh i got the ati radeon 9800 pro and i get overheats from time to time as well . It happens with high end games . But most of the times in summertime and when i put the heater up in my room . I have 3 fans on the but still i have to play with the side of my pc off .

My X800Xt PE is hot too, it is runing at idle just now at 50 degrees Celcius, and it rise to 65 only with the flash animation of subsim....