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OVERHEATING PROBLEM with Geforce
Name: Noah Date: June 10, 2003 at 18:07:31 Pacific OS: WINDOWS XP CPU/Ram: Duron 700/512 PC100
Comment:
I just recently bought a GEFORCE 4 MX440SE 64 MB DDR, and when I play games, it gets extremely hot on the heat sink, and on the rest of the card. What should I do?! Is this normal??
Name: xoveroms_nes Date: June 10, 2003 at 18:31:47 Pacific
Reply:
yes it is... i put a fan inside my case that blows cool air across my v.c
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Response Number 2
Name: johnoh Date: June 10, 2003 at 19:22:22 Pacific
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vid cards especially nvidia are the hottest part of a system.
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Response Number 3
Name: Noah Date: June 10, 2003 at 20:02:35 Pacific
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Thanks guys.. I was just afraid that it would burn up my card. I'm gonna try your idea and put a fan blowing across it. What kinda fan do you have? Any reccomendations?
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Response Number 4
Name: xoveroms_nes Date: June 10, 2003 at 20:15:05 Pacific
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i just pulled it out of an old power supply.. some people like to spend a lot of money on their computer whereas i try to save as much money as possible and i found that the fans out of most power supplys should do the job fairly good... i even replaced the fan on my cpu with a fan from an old power supply and it runs 5 degree's cooler rofl
i have also overclocked my videocard so the need for better cooling is more neccesary..
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Response Number 5
Name: xoveroms_nes Date: June 10, 2003 at 20:16:58 Pacific
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and i left a pci slot open.. the one right next to the agp slot
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Response Number 6
Name: johnoh Date: June 11, 2003 at 11:30:10 Pacific
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just take out one of the case fans and aim at at the card somehow by hanging it or resting it on something. Just about any system can benefit from taking a case fan and aiming it at the vid card or the northbridge. As long as the cpu temp does not go up you know you're better off. Same thing for the hard drive.
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