GPU overheating - do you know how to deal with it???

**KaerMorhen** · August 02, 2007, 07:35 AM

How to prevent the GPU from overheating or what to do if it already happened?

**sapi** · August 02, 2007, 07:44 AM

Pray nothing was damaged
Clean the dust out of your case, especially off fans
Benchmark your GPU to both compare performance to what you should be getting and identify if you'll overheat in such situations
If so, open the side of your case, point a desk fan at it, and wait for summer

**KaerMorhen** · August 02, 2007, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by sapi

Pray nothing was damaged
Clean the dust out of your case, especially off fans
Benchmark your GPU to both compare performance to what you should be getting and identify if you'll overheat in such situations
If so, open the side of your case, point a desk fan at it, and wait for summer

I've heard that overheating might be caused by insufficient power-supply but don't know if it is true?. Right now I had 360W power but begin to think about buying new one up to 500W.

**sapi** · August 02, 2007, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by KaerMorhen

I've heard that overheating might be caused by insufficient power-supply but don't know if it is true?. Right now I had 360W power but begin to think about buying new one up to 500W.

I haven't heard of that particular cause...

Regardless, what are your system specs?

What's your idle temperature (accessed through the driver)?

**KaerMorhen** · August 02, 2007, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by sapi

Regardless, what are your system specs?

it's my old rig I 'handed over' to my wife

but it must be working otherwise she'll skin me alive and throw away for homeless dogs

Intel PC4 1,5GHz
1 GB SDRAM
GF 6600 256 MB
SB Live 5.1
SATA Samsung 120 GB
Sony power supply
...I think thats correct

Originally Posted by sapi

What's your idle temperature (accessed through the driver)?

shame on me but haven't check it yet.

**Freddie** · August 02, 2007, 08:40 AM

If you haven't checked it how do you know that its overheating?

**KaerMorhen** · August 02, 2007, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Freddie

If you haven't checked it how do you know that its overheating?

because I send all error messages to my friend who works for IT company and they said it might be caused by GPU overheating for 90%

**Freddie** · August 02, 2007, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by KaerMorhen

because I send all error messages to my friend who works for IT company and they said it might be caused by GPU overheating for 90%

Can you post any of the error messages?

Normally the symptoms of the video card overheating is when your playing games the textures start to go all funny (graphically corruption). If a game crashes and gives you an error message it driver related.