My GPU runs at 40c on average, I have yet to take a reading while gaming. My machine is very clean at the moment, nothing serious that could cause heat problems. My air flow seems alright. the systems seems to be ventilating ok; I am however considering picking up a PCI slot case cooler such as this,Link, to improve it some. Lastly, I honestly have no idea what my coolant levels are at, I'll have to check.
Edit: Ok so I took a look and my coolant levels are fine. I did manage to take off my heat sink, however, this is my first time doing so, and I have no idea weather or not I need to apply new thermal paste. I imagine doing it regardless can't hurt. I did snap a couple of pictures and from the looks of it I may need to do just that.
I'll be running some stress tests over night to see if the issue may be something besides heat problem. Though the fact that cooling the machine with an epic box fan seems to keep it from crashing keeps me leaning towards a heat problem.
Last edited by Caboos001; October 13th, 2011 at 12:18 AM.
Mkay, so a little update here. My graphics card came in just yesterday, along with a tube of Arctic Silver 5, and another case exhaust fan. I'm having some mixed results here. The overall temperature of my CPU has dropped to 101F while idle and the temperature usually maxes out at about 138F while gaming; an overall improvement from what it ran at last. Then, my new GPU (GTX 570) idles at 113F and maxes at around 183F.
Now my system has shut down on me on at least 2 different occasion while playing BC2, with the same max temperature readings you see above. however, now instead of just completely shutting off, the system just restarts itself. I have tried looking at my BIOS for my heat threshold but it does not seem as though I have anything indicating what it is, nor do I have an option to change it. It seems odd to me that my system now crashes at a lower heat level than it did before. Could this problem be related to my power supply perhaps? over the past hour I've been putting my system under some more stress while gaming, I have yet to crash as of yet, so here's hoping the issue has somehow resolved itself.
EDIT: Well damn, guess what, it was a problem with my PSU after all. I was just casually gaming early when out of nowhere my computer shut down. I figured it was just another random shutdown and attempted to boot it back up. Well with a push of the power button all that turned on were the LED case light for a split second followed up with a faint, "PST" sound from the PSU. So how many other components do you guys think the PSU took with it?
Last edited by Caboos001; October 19th, 2011 at 07:10 AM.
Do you hear or feel any other fans moving at all?
The GPU should still have a slight movement of the fan if only for a second, depending on your card there may be a red LED saying if the card is damaged or not.
It can go either way, either the PSU only took it self out or wiped the entire system with it, it's happened to me before now.
Yeah, no fan movement whatsoever. It just does the same thing as before. Now there is one little red light just under my PCI slot that turns on and stays on when the power switch is in the on position, but the computer is not booted up. Looks just like this ( not my computer though)
Also, a couple of USB peripherals like my wireless adapter show a power light indicating they do have some kind of power. as for my GPU, I have nothing more than the fan to indicate if it has any power.
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