153 Degree Geforce 6800 plz help

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Tr4iLbLaz3r

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Ive recently bought a new XFX Geforce 6800 128mb, everytime i play a game like doom 3 or half life it would run good but then after 5 minutes you would see a lot of artifacts on the screen. I then decided to look at the temperature and it said 153 Degrees and the Ambient temperature was 34 Degrees Celcius. I have never attempted to overclock the video card. The fan on the video card is running fine, and the airflow in my case is good. I dont know whats the problem, any help would be appreciated.

P4 2.8 Ghz HT
1024 PC 3200 DDR RAM
XFX GEFORCE 6800 128MB
450 W THERMALTAKE PSU
 
could be that the heatsink aint making good contact to the gpu.

either
1) take it off, check it out and maybe lap that sumbitch
2) or RMA it
 
Tr4iLbLaz3r said:
Ive recently bought a new XFX Geforce 6800 128mb, everytime i play a game like doom 3 or half life it would run good but then after 5 minutes you would see a lot of artifacts on the screen. I then decided to look at the temperature and it said 153 Degrees and the Ambient temperature was 34 Degrees Celcius. I have never attempted to overclock the video card. The fan on the video card is running fine, and the airflow in my case is good. I dont know whats the problem, any help would be appreciated.

P4 2.8 Ghz HT
1024 PC 3200 DDR RAM
XFX GEFORCE 6800 128MB
450 W THERMALTAKE PSU
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Sounds like you arent reading the temperature right. 153F=67C which is right in the normal load temperature. Unless you'd like to post a screenshot of it at 153C which is hot enough to melt the PCB and destroy the card after 1 use, i'd like you to. Otherwise its user error, or so it looks like.

Seen it done many times before, people change the temps to F by accident or on purpous while messing with settings and, obviously not being use to metrics or having any understanding, think its too hot. Not saying thats you, just saying i have seen that before.

If i were to give the benefit of the doubt assuming it is doing that, which would be amazing, there are cases where they forget to apply thermal paste to the chip before putting on the heatsink.
 
If you've never messed with OCing it you should not be getting artifacts on your screen due to temperature. Chances are you got a defective card.

If you have another video card, try putting that into your system and see if the problem goes away. If it does, RMA the card.
 
If its at 67C, what could be the problem? Should i apply thermal paste even if its a new retail card?
 
Tr4iLbLaz3r said:
If its at 67C, what could be the problem? Should i apply thermal paste even if its a new retail card?
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If you are planning on RMAing it, I would definetly avoid putting thermal paste on it. Just sounds like a bad card. If all the rest of your hardware is known to be good, then send it on back.
 
The problem is that im not sure if i can RMA it, just remembered my friend gave me the card. He doesnt live near me anymore, so the only thing i can try is repairing it myself.
 
You might try seeing if you can RMA it without having the reciept or anything. Call or email the manufacturer explain your situation and see if they will RMA the card before you try messing with it yourself. You might just get lucky and get a new card.
 
Luke1294 said:
I wish my friends handed out hardware.
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I wish my friends knew how to use computers.

"Yea I'm pretty good with computers. I can reinstall windows."
"Want a cookie? I built my computer."
"Man your crazy. Get a life"
"Your telling me to get a life? You play Halo 2 on xbox all the time!'
"It pwns man"
"Not really. Try HL2, CS:S, Doom 3, Far Cry, BF:V. Those are way funner thn Halo 2. It's the same as HALO 1!!!"
 
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