New and wanting advice

blodflekk · Posted: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:14:26 Post Subject:

It is clean, no dust at all. What is best to be the main focus when overclocking GPU ? Should it be the Core bus or the memory?

nolonger · Rated R Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 98

I'd say back off that overclock, 83ºC is enough to heat up the whole case if you don't have proper airflow.

**Jason** · Posted: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:03:15 Post Subject:

What are you using to measure temperatures?

blodflekk · Posted: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:39:37 Post Subject:

I dropped all overclocking now because the gains were very minimal. As for the apps I was using to monitor H/W, I was using CPU-Z, GPU-Z and Speedfan

**BeerCheeze** · Posted: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:57:54 Post Subject:

Looks like you're going to need more air flow, replace/reseat the heat sink on your video card (warning will likely void any warranty). or depending on the ambient temperature you might need to go more extreme and look to water cooling.

83C is way to hot, you would likely start causing damage to the components.

blodflekk · Posted: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:15:26 Post Subject:

Well ideally I would like a new system but I just have no money at the moment, and that video card has always been running hot. But it seems like a new thing that these games are running slow I just ran UT3 and it was slow and I have never had any problems with it, About a month ago I did a cheap motherboard upgrade from a P35 to a P45 to improve things and I ran UT3 fine on the old mobo.

**Jason** · Posted: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:18:32 Post Subject:

How about case cooling? Where are the intake and exhaust fans, and how big/fast are they?

blodflekk · Posted: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:42:25 Post Subject:

Video card died 2 days ago - reached temps of 107C at idle, and stock speeds. I ran the video memory test and it pulled up 7000 errors after 13mins of testing. I had to put in the old 8600GT Sad