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by **Bob Lobla** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:29:16

I ran into a situation where my graphic card was overheating and causing
lockups and video bugs after playing rFactor for 3 hours. I have a 8800 GTS
320 Mb and unfortunately, my casing only has one fan. I was wondering if
there were solutions to cool down the video card that don't require buying a
new computer casing.

by **Michael Sisso** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:34:54

says...

Take the side off the case and use a house fan.

Dust is a problem and the internals of the computer will need to be
cleaned more often.

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by **Tony** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:42:22

> I ran into a situation where my graphic card was overheating and causing
> lockups and video bugs after playing rFactor for 3 hours. I have a 8800 GTS
> 320 Mb and unfortunately, my casing only has one fan. I was wondering if
> there were solutions to cool down the video card that don't require buying a
> new computer casing.

You can use rivatuner to control the graphics card fan, i.e. keep it
running at full speed.

I certainly used the ATI equivalent utility with my ATI card and rfactor
to prevent some weird artifacts that were heat related.

Cheers
Tony

by **Darry** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:16:24

You can buy separate fans designed to fit inside regular cases. I have
two in my case: one at the front and another on the side (where the
case maker thoughtfully provided anchor points and ventilation holes.

On an older computer, I purchased an add-in card exactly like a video
card except all it had on it was a fan. It exhausted the air out the
slot at the end of the card where a real videa card would have had the
connector. I placed it directly above the real video card (in a tower)
so that it blew the hot air off the video card out of the case right
away.

Any computer store should be able to get you going with extra fans at
very little cost.

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Darryl

by **Alan Bernard** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:25:42

Use a vacuum cleaner with a hose and suck out any dust on top of the fan. I
had the same problem a while back and the cause turned out to be dust
clogging up the fan.

After doing this my video card temperature returned to normal.

Alan

by **Backspac** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:58:50

> I ran into a situation where my graphic card was overheating and causing
> lockups and video bugs after playing rFactor for 3 hours. I have a 8800 GTS
> 320 Mb and unfortunately, my casing only has one fan. I was wondering if
> there were solutions to cool down the video card that don't require buying a
> new computer casing.

Buy a better HSF for your video card or send it back to the
manufacturer. If it is not over-clcocked then it shouldn't overheat even
after 8 hours of use.

by **Andrew MacPhers** » Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:37:00

> If it is not over-clcocked then it shouldn't overheat even
> after 8 hours of use.

The problem tends to be in the case, not on the card itself. The vid card
is probably doing a fair job of keeping the GPU cool. But from the sound
of it, the heat of the card is not being removed from the case
efficiently. So over a period of time the case temperature rises steadily
until problems occur.

So for intensive *** sessions it's probably easiest for the OP to just
open up the case temporarily.

In my PCs I use extraction fans which fit in a spare PCI slot. They don't
suck out much air, but it might be the difference between a slow build up
and a steady state during *** sessions.

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Andrew McP

by **Backspac** » Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:14:10

>> If it is not over-clcocked then it shouldn't overheat even
>> after 8 hours of use.

> The problem tends to be in the case, not on the card itself. The vid card
> is probably doing a fair job of keeping the GPU cool. But from the sound
> of it, the heat of the card is not being removed from the case
> efficiently. So over a period of time the case temperature rises steadily
> until problems occur.

> So for intensive *** sessions it's probably easiest for the OP to just
> open up the case temporarily.

> In my PCs I use extraction fans which fit in a spare PCI slot. They don't
> suck out much air, but it might be the difference between a slow build up
> and a steady state during *** sessions.

> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> K

> Andrew McP

Yea, I know about all that but it doesn't take much to create efficient
cooling. Some people (not saying you) who try to solve this issue with
more fans are not really going about it the right way as that tends to
just create turbulence inside the case instead of solving the issue.
I've seen people bragging that they have 6 case fans which IMO is just
nuts. Both my 2 PC's have 8800GT's and both use those circular type fans
(think Zalman style) instead of the reference fans. One of them has a
heatpipe which is always good to have as it really wicks the heat away
quicker. One case I have 92mm intake fan and the exhaust fan is 120mm
with the blow hole grill cut out (cutting the grill out really helps to
make your case more efficient and also less noisy as there is no
turbulence). The other case has good front ventilation and two 80mm rear
fans. That's it, nothing else. All fans are volt modded to run at lower
rpm than stock speed too. Neither computer has any issues running
demanding games for long periods of time. Only times I have had isues
with vid cards is when the manufacturer put ram on the cards that could
not do the speeds they say it was rated for. To solve that you either
send the card back for a replacement or downclock the ram a bit until
you get it stable.

by **Jeff Rei** » Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:32:50

Because of the noise of video card fans (I have an ATI HD2900XT), I find it's
quieter to simply remove the sides of my computer cases. This pretty much
guarantees the temperature "inside" your case won't be much different than
room temperature, well below the 40C requirement for some CPUs. There is
a lot of heat generated between the video card and CPU, enough that the
room will get a bit warmer if I don't have a door or window open.

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