I noticed when playing 3D games my new PC "lurches" and often freezes. After playing for 5 minutes, I closed the game and saw my GPU (Not CPU) temperature was 60 C. Is that normal? It's a passive cooling card.
~Kujila
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 Jan 26 2006, 6:30 am
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I'd immagine its pretty normal. My 7800gtx runs about 47-50 without games.
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lol, mine runs at like 60 degrees normal, one time the fan had a cable stuck in it and ran at like 150 degrees, i dont think it was healthy for it
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Try updating your graphics card drivers.
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Kujila wrote:
I noticed when playing 3D games my new PC "lurches" and often freezes. After playing for 5 minutes, I closed the game and saw my GPU (Not CPU) temperature was 60 C. Is that normal? It's a passive cooling card. Me too, sorta. Not big lurches but lots of little ones, on certain maps in certain games, looking at certain locations in the maps. I don't know what my GPU temperature is though, but since the heatsink is facing downwards I can't imagine it'd be that good. :P | |
UPDATE:
My friend, when putting my PC together, overclocked the video card. I put it back to normal and it's ok now ^^ ~Kujila | |
60 degrees aint bad at all for passive cooling just after exiting a game, seeing it was freezing putting the gpu back down to its normal stock settings sounds like a good descion
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Last time I had a video card overheat badly it burned out and took my brand new CD burner with it. I was mad. (when burners still cost around $100.00) The fan stopped working and I didn't realize it until it stopped working =P.
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Normally you'd underclock a passively cooled card as they are normally used in tight or confined spaces like a media pc
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heh heh I r teh overclocking my GPU... of course I've got a heatsink and fan (only one dinky fan) to cool it.
Oh right about the topic... Why are you using passive cooling? If it's about size... you could just get yourself a heatsink + fan for about the same size as a heatsink... I think the heatsink/fan would be a little more effective but I'm not sure. =| | |
He replaced it with some more expensive card, and said I could have it when I was buying parts for a new PC
~Kujila | |
Passive cooling is good (assuming nothing overheats) because it creates less noise. Noise is bad.
My previous computer sounded like a jet engine when you turned it on... I don't think it did my hearing any good. Thankfully my new one is pretty quiet. | |
Yeah, my Linux box sounds like a jet engine when it's running -- I believe it's the power supply's fan, never really investigated.
[Edit] Turns out it's the hard-drive, maybe I can fix it afterall. [Edit 2] Fixed! Put another drive in and installed Ubuntu and had it running like it was in under two hours...I love Ubuntu! | |
My PC just.. froze.. completely.. When playing games for a cetain amount of time. I unninstalled some junk, defrag, spyware removal, virus check, nothing.
The, after a month, it was gone! All of a sudden!
Thing is, new computer(s) (parts) are a pain in the beginning. They'll finally 'adjust' after a while.