Had a good old cleaning session yesterday with my compressed air thingy. Anyways I start to play BF2 today and after about 15 mins my fps dropped from it's usual 100 and odd to about 10. Strange I thought so I rebooted.
Started the game up again only to be confronted by the same problem. Now performance loss normally indicates that either your temperatures have gone up or there is something running in the background.
So I check the temperature. OMG. GPU 1 was at 109 degrees C. Not good. GPU 2 at a healthy 50.
So I instantly hit the off button to save any potential damage and go to inspect. I remove the side of my case and I'm confronted by a heatwave followed by the sight of my Zalman cooler power lead hanging and not plugged into anything. Put it back in, started BF2 again and all was back to normal.
Both cards seem fine so it looks like I've been lucky, but if you are fiddleing around inside your case, double check all connections as you might end up with an unattractive bill for replacement parts.
Started the game up again only to be confronted by the same problem. Now performance loss normally indicates that either your temperatures have gone up or there is something running in the background.
So I check the temperature. OMG. GPU 1 was at 109 degrees C. Not good. GPU 2 at a healthy 50.
So I instantly hit the off button to save any potential damage and go to inspect. I remove the side of my case and I'm confronted by a heatwave followed by the sight of my Zalman cooler power lead hanging and not plugged into anything. Put it back in, started BF2 again and all was back to normal.
Both cards seem fine so it looks like I've been lucky, but if you are fiddleing around inside your case, double check all connections as you might end up with an unattractive bill for replacement parts.
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