Graphic-card to hot?

Post by **ayu** » 30 Nov 2006, 03:49

Let's say that my fan stops working on my G-card, and i start a game like World of warcraft or call of duty.

When the G-card gets to hot, what happens?

My friends computer freezes and restarts when he has played for about 3 minutes, and i thought that it may be the G-card that is to hot. Because we have checked the other units and they seem ok, but there was a unit that the program we were using for checking temp, could not identify, but the temp on the unit was like 100 C (wich seems unlikely but i don't want to take any risks)

bennybill · Post by **bennybill** » 30 Nov 2006, 11:13

Woooo that quite high tbh are ur fans working or something, or dust.Theres a program on here that checks the temperture on ur comp but for got name Sorry

B3^

Post by **bad_brain** » 30 Nov 2006, 11:24

hm, well, if the g-card gets too hot it could cause the freezes and reboots...check if the fan is running, remove and clean it...

Post by **Stavros** » 30 Nov 2006, 12:12

Definitely check for dust. While you're at it, check for dust in the CPU Heatsink Fan.

I'm going to assume that your friend is lazy: Tell him to get a can of compressed air and clean his computer every month or two.

Worse comes to worst you can always buy a heatsink fan for a graphics card online.

Post by **ayu** » 30 Nov 2006, 15:46

Thanks for the answers, il post when i have tried =)

Post by **Gogeta70** » 30 Nov 2006, 17:54

Well, also make sure that it's a few inches away from walls and stuff (3-5 inches, 6-8 cm) so that the case has proper airflow. Generally, you want a clean air environment, so smoking around your computer's not good either. A good place for a computer is near a window that is often opened and closed, that way it gets fresh air from outside and can cool off.

[moved to hardware forum]

Post by **pseudo_opcode** » 01 Dec 2006, 03:29

well restarts can also be due to overclocking in some cases, and heating is also a result of overclocking, i helped a friend overclock his processor, and it heated so much that we installed a liquid cooling system and now it works great and its cool(pun intended), well cooling reminds me of another awesome technology called vapour compression cooling, if you use that you can overclock your processor upto 1 ghz and the running temperature is -35 deg C,but that ofcourse is very expensive

Post by **ayu** » 02 Dec 2006, 08:18

We started up the comp and ran a game, and discovered that the G-card fan wasn't working ^^ , so we will be changing that today =)

Thanks for all the help and tip

bennybill · Post by **bennybill** » 02 Dec 2006, 09:03

so its working alot better then