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I'm going to try a different CPU and ultimately RMA the board if that doesn't work. The CPU usage is going to 100% when in the game, but when I Alt+Tab, everything is fine. Nothing else (Xfire, etc.) is running in the background to interfere with it, and it is happening in ALL games. Yes...

It was happening with more than one card, including a brand new one, so I'm not sure. I tested the power supply with another as well, same problem.

I used RivaTuner to manually adjust my GPU fan speed to 80% duty and have not had a problem since. I'm wondering if there's an issue with the motherboard not adjusting the fan speed on the video card fast enough. Anyway. Thanks for the help! :)

Just happened in World of Warcraft: This is happening on this card, and a brand new one I opened yesterday. Again, it went back to normal after about 30 seconds to a minute.

Old drivers did not help. It seems this only happens once, about 5-10 minutes after the game is first launched - it stutters and goes to 1-5 FPS for about 30 seconds to a minute. It then recovers and the game plays as normal. This is happening with all games. I haven't played for more than 30...

Tested with Furmark (Stability) & Prime95 (2 threads) with NOD32 Antivirus Disabled: Went as high as 85c @ 50FPS After 118s, the problem began to happen. Dipped to 5-10FPS, card went to 72c and eventually lowered back down to the high 50's mid 60's, until the problem stopped after 30 seconds...

Hey there, HF Let me start from the top. When I was sleeping one night, some drunk idiot took it upon themselves to spill cream soda on my desktop while it was on. It seeped into the case, dripped onto the video card and motherboard, frying them both. I cleaned the video card (BFG GeForce...

I'm totally comfortable with trying it :)

a) Do you have a tutorial on how to do this? (I'm a total newbie to overclocking) b) Do you have a heatsink you can recommend? c) How far can I realistically push it?

*braces for flames* Would DX10 make a difference?

I did buy from NCIX but it was $289 :( edit: and mine's only an OC

Okay. Thank you for your help (everyone). I wasn't really hoping to get 400, just a wee bit higher than 140, and a bit less sag. But I'll play with it and see if there's anything else I can do. You guys are great. Thanks for the quick reply.

Thank you. That cost was in Canadian dollars with 14% tax and shipping, so that's why it's a wee bit more expensive. I don't know anything about overclocking unfortunately. Are there any good tutorials around?

Clearly.

8800GTS (not sure which one...I'd have to ask)/2gig ddr2/6000+ black edition