Hey folks. I upgraded just recently, to an Athlon 3200+ 64-bit, gig of PC3200 kingston ram, and GA-K8N-939 motherboard. I put this together with my Aspire 500W Powersupply and my XFX Geforce 6800 NU with stock speeds and cooling.
Needless to say, i'm getting some great framerates in all my games. But it's not doing it for very long. When I upgraded in christmas, I noticed I have problems in BF2 where after a few minutes of playing, the game would lag really bad if I looked in one general direction. I actully fixed this by raising my Graphics Apeture size to 128 (it was at 32 before.) But that didn't fix my problems with hard crashing. As it turns out, my card was pumping out 55-60c on idle, and up to about 75c on load (maybe even 80c, I didn't test the card that long.) I discovered that taking the side of my case off and pointing a fan at the card raised the temp down 5-10c, which was enough so that I could play all my games for hours without problems. Or so I thought..
Just recently, I find doom 3 and battlefield 2 crashing after 5-10 minutes of gameplay. I checked my temps while playing doom 3, and it got up to 65c before crashing. I didn't get this. My CPU temps were atleast 20c lower then my card, so I was fine in that department.
So, since the freezing in games have gotten alot more frequent, I ran windows memory diagnostic over night. No errors, nice. Well, that doesn't solve my problem, sadly.
Everything is not overclocked, and all my components seem hooked up properly. What's the problem? My card is cool enough that I should be crashing every 10 minutes while playing doom 3 or BF2, and my CPU is even cooler then my card. So what do I do?
Needless to say, i'm getting some great framerates in all my games. But it's not doing it for very long. When I upgraded in christmas, I noticed I have problems in BF2 where after a few minutes of playing, the game would lag really bad if I looked in one general direction. I actully fixed this by raising my Graphics Apeture size to 128 (it was at 32 before.) But that didn't fix my problems with hard crashing. As it turns out, my card was pumping out 55-60c on idle, and up to about 75c on load (maybe even 80c, I didn't test the card that long.) I discovered that taking the side of my case off and pointing a fan at the card raised the temp down 5-10c, which was enough so that I could play all my games for hours without problems. Or so I thought..
Just recently, I find doom 3 and battlefield 2 crashing after 5-10 minutes of gameplay. I checked my temps while playing doom 3, and it got up to 65c before crashing. I didn't get this. My CPU temps were atleast 20c lower then my card, so I was fine in that department.
So, since the freezing in games have gotten alot more frequent, I ran windows memory diagnostic over night. No errors, nice. Well, that doesn't solve my problem, sadly.
Everything is not overclocked, and all my components seem hooked up properly. What's the problem? My card is cool enough that I should be crashing every 10 minutes while playing doom 3 or BF2, and my CPU is even cooler then my card. So what do I do?