I a running 8800GT is SLI, a game that I was playing frequently at the time, graphicly kept freezing up. I decided to open up the case and discovered that one of my video cards was was hotter than the other one, I am guessing that the cooling system is broke on it. Has anyone else had this problem with the 8800GTs?
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8800GT overheating problem.
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One will always be hotter than the other, as one will vent hot air onto the other in SLI, its nothing to do with dust. A few more fans pointed at them will help
im not a computer genius but when I say hot, that mfer was hot, like too hot.
I forgot to mention this earlier, i can hear the exhaust/fan working on the lower, cooler one, but the top one has no exhaust/fan noise.
Many of the earlier 8800GT's had a flaw in the bios that did not allow the fan to spin up past 29% you've got 3 options if this is the case.
1) Flash the bios
2) Use a 3rd party software to control fan speeds like RivaTuner
3) RMA the card
1) Flash the bios
2) Use a 3rd party software to control fan speeds like RivaTuner
3) RMA the card
I'm not entirely sure you'd like as a result of posting. You've found that a fan which was once turning, is no longer turning. There were issues with some early BIOS versions, but it sounds like yours worked in the past so that isn't the problem.
Fans break - check for dust, clogs or anything impeding the fan and/or RMA.
Fans break - check for dust, clogs or anything impeding the fan and/or RMA.
Don't be so quick to dismiss dust. Its a perfectly valid reason for an increase in temps over time. That shit does accumulated, and it doesn't conduct heat very well
@OP: When you say "that mfer was hot", just *how* hot was it? It is perfectly reasonable and normal for these cards to hit 90C under loads (about 200F). Use a temperature monitor (software or hardware, whatever is easier) and get some hard numbers for us.
Not necesarily true depending on the situation. If he has the bios problem, it may have been on the edge of stability the entire time and the 2nd card or the new game, or even slighlty more dust may have pushed it over the edge.