Help with my Nvidia 9600Gt 1 Gb card! (overheat)

[Lachesis]

I got a graphics card - brand new 9600Gt 1 Gb (Gigabyte). Throughout playing call of duty 4 and other games i found out that after some time the game just crashes. Every crash was wierder than the next - they didn't seem to have a defined period of the "bug" happening. So once i was playing cod4 and it crashed. This time, i checked the GPU temp (speedfan). It appeared to be an amazine 95 degrees celsius! Now since the recommended temp is round 60 i was baffled.

My temps look like this:

On startup (directly after startup): 35 degrees

7 mins after startup: 52 degrees

Some time later: 73 degrees (while surfing the net)

After i play a game it goes all th way up to 95!

My comp specs:

Motherboard: Asus P5N-T Deluxe

HDD: Seagate 500Gb, 32 MB

Proccessor: Intel quad core q6600 @2.40 GHz (not overclocked)

Grapgics card: Nvidia 9600 GT 1 Gb (Gigabyte) (not overclocked)

RAM: 2 x 2Gb Kingston

DVD drive: Dunno (doesnt matter anyway i guess)

Now i don't have any ventilators apart from a 120 mm front (prob isnt the problem seeing as i have my comp opened up - one side is opened up). Im thinking of buying a thermaltake chassy (5 x 140 mm ventilators) but i don't want to spend 100 euros on that. My brother has the same card (although bout 14 days older, looks a bit differnet too) and has no problems at all. He too doesnt have a ventilator.

Anyone got an idea what could be wrong?

Pic: http://www.svmlemag.fr/files/gigabyte_9600GT.jpg

Thx in advance,

Lachesis

Edited November 23, 2008 by Lachesis

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

you need a better cooler on that beast...

[Lachesis]

Hmm im getting one anyway. Any other ideas?

[King Antonius]

Ditto

[Lachesis]

any other ideas?

[Blackhearted]

Anyone got an idea what could be wrong?

It's overheating most likely due to poor airflow in your case. Without proper airflow passively cooled cards will overheat under a load quicker than you can say "omgwtf my game crashed".

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

Lachesis, wait to see if the 3rd party fan fixes it. I f not, then post it in here, and we can venture into something else, but right now it all points to the gpu heatsink.

[bob_c_b]

Those Silent Pipe coolers from Gigabyte really recquire a case with good airflow. Wide open sides, or lots of mesh on your side panels break up that air flow design and cause those cards to run hot. i used to have a Silent Pipe II 8600GT in my Linux box and the temps would soar with the side panel off but were quite cool with the panel on and the heat pipe doing it's job. I'd be curious to know what case you have and what your air flow pattern is like. That coolers design really counts on strong front to back air flow with few interuptions.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

+1 They can even get hotter with the side off.

[Lachesis]

Ok thx

Mindovermaster im getting this new chasi: ACPlus monolize. Has 2x 25 cm fans at side and im putting in a 120mm at back. Heres a pic: http://www.mlacom.si/largeimage.aspx?docid=40172

Oh and i closed up my comp and the temp fell down for 12 degrees celsius. Ill mount the new chassi asap and post the results. Keep looking ;)

[GrimReeper]

In my opinion get a Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev.2 because I have one and it rocks even with very little airflow. From the picture the fins look very close together which would be it may cool better than a Accelero in a good airflow case but if you are going passive you probably aren't going to have many fans :p

If you know how you may want to also apply your own superior thermal paste such as Arctic Cooling MX-2, but its pretty pricey. I just recently got a new gfx card because my old one died and when I went to put on my Accelero I noticed it only had thermal paste on half of the gpu, now I have no idea how that happened but if only half the gpu is making contact with the heatsink you will overheat for sure.

Hope that helps :)

[deactivated01032015]

@Lachesis:

You don't need to go too extreme just because of the new gfx card. All those fans will be loud as hell. It's better if you buy a new cooling for the card.

[Lachesis]

@ bluefish:

Im planning to get 2x crads (sli). Thats why i even have an asus p5n-t deluxe (2x 16 prots). Ill bneed that cooling... BAD

[deactivated01032015]

Well, since you are going to use two passive heated card this case will definitely come to good use.

But, if I were you I'd get a single and much better card for almost the same price as those you are getting.

Secondly, SLI isn't as good as it sounds. In theory you get 100% performance increase. In reality, only a few games can get around 60% (max 80% with driver optimization) out of it. Some older only 10%.

It depends what resolution are you playing at.

[Lachesis]

Yes i know it isnt 100% more. But seeng as this caed can run games like cod4, the other card will just make them perfect. And yes, if i hadnt goteen 1 of these cards, id rather buy the ati 4870 but seeing as i already have one (and can get another very cheap - 100 euros) ill prob take another card and be done with it. Then after like 3 years ill get a better one ;)

I guess ill stick to the case. Then ill see my new temps (at 1 card - current) Maybe its the cards fault. Although i doubt it.

Si res slovenec?

[deactivated01032015]

Ja, res je. Saj tole bi lahko spraševal na ST ;).

[Lachesis]

Če bi vedu kaj je st.. Greva govorit angle?k da bodo usi razumel xD. ?e to, misli? da se mi splača (da bo delaloI) kupit tisti ohi?je?

Bo hladilo 2 grafiki?

(nism vidu da si dal post na stran:)2 :))

[deactivated01032015]

Slo-Tech, slovenski forum namenjen tovrstnim debatam.

Yes, that case will probably cool it just right. Although some ordinary case with good airflow through it, would do the same job just as good as the one you are mentioning.

I would recommend you Antec P182 EU with some aftermarket fans since those in the case are pretty loud.

But, that's my personal taste. Choose a case that you find appealing.

[Lachesis]

A plus it is. Ill report with the new temps asap (probs tommorow)