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Cereal Killer

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I was playing HL2 on one monitor while having my temps displayed on the other and it only got up to around 66 degrees load when the computer crashed, the clock speeds have been the same since before I got the second monitor, I later disabled one and played HL2 and it didn't crash, is this related to the video card or what?
 
66 is a little hot, if thats what your board "Says" the temp is when its really 71 then that could be your problem. the software and sensors on your board are not 100% accurate and may be off by a few degress. I would look into a better heatsink or downclock your overclock a little bit, it should never go over 65. My dual core opty is overclocked to 2.6 ghz and max temp is 50....

as far as the dual monitor thing, I dont think that will cause your PC to crash. Define crash, random reboot, bsod, freeze, what exactly happend? Try downlclocking your videocard a little bit, maybe 10 core 10 mem each and see what happends.
 
the crash was a reboot and it's my GPU that's at 66 load not CPU. I never get artifacts or anything though.
 
GPU should be fine, now mine sits at 45 at idle, I have no Idea what it goes to when under load. I think the warning temp of a GPU is like 80+ If your not seeing artifacts or wierd things I doubt your videocard is the problem. What kinda power supply you using?
 
I'm using a 480W Antec Neopower, it only happened when I had both monitors on, if I disable the second it's fine, my 3DMark 05 score is higher on one monitor as well.
 
Cereal Killer said:
I'm using a 480W Antec Neopower, it only happened when I had both monitors on, if I disable the second it's fine, my 3DMark 05 score is higher on one monitor as well.
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The 3DMark score being higher is natural.
 
it just happened again, this time I was playing F.E.A.R. but only one monitor was enabled and it just restarted, I've never had this issue before.
 
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