Recent content by Salamanth

I've had my i7 system running at 3.8 Ghz with the TRUE 120 Black and a Scythe 65 CFM fan set in push-through configuration blowing directly into a rear exhaust fan. Depending on which program I use I get wildly varying temperatures, but it is always stable even after 23 sustained hours of...

I just installed this board with a Core i7 920, 6 GB of Corsair 1600 Mhz Dominator RAM and an eVGA GTX 260 SSC edition. Only issue I've encountered so far, which doesn't appear to be the board's fault, is an intermittent lack of write ability to my SATA RAID0 array on the gigabyte controller...

Vairo - settings > Temperature Monitoring > Measure Card Temp

Well I'm not sure if it was the hard reboot or if it was the dust-removal (compressed air FTW) but the card is now running at 45C Idle and 76 with two EVE Online clients, so something fixed it... still thinking about an aftermarket cooler though, anyone have any thoughts on the Arctic Cooling...

Yeah, the fan has been checked, its fine. The thing that bothers me is never before have I gotten a temperature warning and usually it idles around 50-55C! Now suddenly its not even within 10 degrees of that and its going up over 100C on load.

I'm at a loss, I've checked the fan and its still spinning just fine. ATITool is showing me temps of ~65C with the fan in smart control mode and 60C with the fan at forced 100%. This card is not overclocked and has been running fine for me since I bought it, but earlier today while playing EVE...