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I've been having problems with this machine for months now and been too lazy to bother fixing it, assuming its just my windows install being full of junk. I previously had my 2.4 p4 o/c'd to 3.0 and my Sapphire 9800 n/p cranked up as far as it would go without noticable artifacts in 3dmark. At one point I set these both back to default when Rise of Nations kept crashing on me, and it solved the problem so I left them there.
Well last night I decided to crank it up again because f1 2002 was occasionally choppy when completely maxed out with fsaa. Well long story short, I pushed it a little too far and needed to open the case and reset the bios settings with the jumper. Booted it back up just to notice that the fan on my IC7's northbridge was dead. In the process of removing the fan an making sure it wasnt just rubbing on something, i came to realize that the fan on my 9800 was also dead! At idle in windows the heatsink on that sucker felt like it was going to melt.
I'm amazed the card is still alive since its probably been like that for months, and I've had it overclocked and played plenty of graphic intensive games. Amazingly its only recently that I noticed artifacts. As a precaution, I popped in my Geforce 2 Ultra for now... damn I've been spoiled by the ATI. All is good though, because I just ordered the monstrosity that is the Giant 3 by thermaltake along with the Thermalright northbridge cooler... but now I'm afraid I'll have to mod one of them to fit.
Well last night I decided to crank it up again because f1 2002 was occasionally choppy when completely maxed out with fsaa. Well long story short, I pushed it a little too far and needed to open the case and reset the bios settings with the jumper. Booted it back up just to notice that the fan on my IC7's northbridge was dead. In the process of removing the fan an making sure it wasnt just rubbing on something, i came to realize that the fan on my 9800 was also dead! At idle in windows the heatsink on that sucker felt like it was going to melt.
I'm amazed the card is still alive since its probably been like that for months, and I've had it overclocked and played plenty of graphic intensive games. Amazingly its only recently that I noticed artifacts. As a precaution, I popped in my Geforce 2 Ultra for now... damn I've been spoiled by the ATI. All is good though, because I just ordered the monstrosity that is the Giant 3 by thermaltake along with the Thermalright northbridge cooler... but now I'm afraid I'll have to mod one of them to fit.
