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Video Card Temp

ATITool - while you can't measure the temp directly on a 9800 pro without a hardware solution, this program will - amongst other things - check to make sure that you don't have any artefacts in the display (symptom of overheating) and find your max overclock. Once it's found the max oc, back it...
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- Post #2
- May 19, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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computer overheating while idle

While one might think that this doesn't explain the bizarrely high system / mobo temp, sounds like the CPU is dumping heat into the mobo - hence the mobo and the CPU look like the same temp. Your HSF is - to coin a phrase - FUBAR
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- Post #13
- May 19, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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computer overheating while idle

reckon that the guy with the glowing eyes is right - sounds like 1) your fan is dying - but prob. unlikely since it's still spinning 2) the HS is not fixed on right - have you knocked the computer recently? If you haven't knocked it, it could be that the thermal interface material has dried...
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- Post #12
- May 19, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Is memory of ur Radeon 9800p getting really hot?

don't fret - VGAs get astoundingly hot - it's just what they do. I was running my 9800 pro in Dx9.0 games with settings as high as I could and still have a usable frame rate, oc'd 20% on core and memory with just the Zalman passive! Trust me - these things can take the heat! Even if it does...
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- Post #16
- May 19, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling

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Video Card Temp

computer overheating while idle

computer overheating while idle

Is memory of ur Radeon 9800p getting really hot?