Ok so I was playing BF2 yesterday with a friend, and all of a sudden the comp just froze, and I had to restart it to get out of it. Now, it's very hot here at the moment, and my window was closed, chassis was closed, and the game was on, I did not check the temperature at that time though since I wanted to jump back into the game as quick as possible ^^
Now, today I made a little experiment to see how hot it was while gaming....
I opened the window on full, and opened the chassis and took out the computer a bit to give it some more air. I also turned on a fan that I have at the window.
Now, I of course play my games in windows so that is where I am at the moment of the experiment. I install Everest to check the temperature, it was ~70 degrees Celsius steady when I was outside of the game. I started the game and joined a server and played for about 5 minutes, when I checked the temperature was about 81 degrees Celsius.....and it did NOT freeze.
Imagine what it was when I played before, when the chassis was NOT opened and the window was NOT opened and the fan was NOT on.
This is an image I took a few minutes ago in everest.
So, the hot weather is doing more than just lighting fires and killing people, it fucking destroys computer components as well!!
PS: I have loads of friends who has lost HDD's in the heat, so you all better strap some extra fans on them ^^ I have.....
Very hot GPU
Very hot GPU
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I have to say , I used to have this problem that my GPU would be 60 celcius, now that I use a new 3rd party cooler on it it does not go beyond 45 celcius,
so it is advisable to purchase a new cooler because it does make a huge difference perfomance wise and durability of the card.
so it is advisable to purchase a new cooler because it does make a huge difference perfomance wise and durability of the card.
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Are you sure you connected it properly?cats wrote:naah not ATI =/ NVIDIA 8800GT
Weird thing is that when I bought the card, I also bought a new huge fan for it that was said to be "high performance" and "quiet" .... Well, it's quiet alright =P
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The box that I bought off the shelf gets hot because it was designed to be quiet but because of that it does not have many fans to disperse the heat. Later I build my own computer and I got a computer housing with many fans and I even got the PSU with a big fan so heat is being dispersed with ease!
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