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Old 02-19-2009, 09:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
Wimlore
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Re: GPU Overheating.

Wow, those are all cool looking fans, and thank you for finding them for me, Jones. I can see now that price really makes the fan! I bought one similar to this http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...4130&CatId=804 i wasn't imaging spending more than $25 on a fan, and so I didn't. Shows what I knew! The one I bought actually is 2x bigger, takes 2 pci slots, and dropped one of my GPU's tempatures about 4-5 celsius, but it was still getting hot! So I got dirty and added arctic silver thermopaste on both GPUs, that seamed to cool the whole damn system down, including the GPUs, but still, the machine is getting a little too hot. Like 80 celsius on GPUS.

What i've noticed though, interestingly enough, is that the only game that heats up my GPU like that is Spore, simply because it forces me to play on single a GPU cuz the guys at maxis aren't all that interested in making it compatible for SLI. Could bad game programming be the source of so much GPU stress? If so, i'm gunna have to put that game aside, until I can muster the cash for one of those fans... makes me wish I just bought a different GPU at the time, perhaps an older, more heat-efficiant model. Thanks again for the shopping list Jones!
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