card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

[12:oc7ock]

Just today my card starting reaching temperatures of over 90 celsius. But the fan is working fine not to mention I have one of those small desktop fans I use to cool it as well. It usually never goes above 70 and I peaked at 92 or 93 a minute ago. Can anyone think of an explanation for this madness? thanks.

[Reeps]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

what card do you have? have you cleaned it of dust?

[12:oc7ock]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

6800gs, I sprayed what I had left and got quite a bit of dust out 30 minutes ago. There might be some still in it, but not much. It's crazy, because I was playing fine earlier. Then I go back in game just recently and all of sudden the card is reaching temps of 90 and higher for no apparent reason. I'd understand if the internal cooling fan quit working but it didn't.

[Reeps]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

have you tried smartdoctor and apply the fan spedd to 100%, drops my card temp by 15 degrees

[12:oc7ock]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

have you tried smartdoctor and apply the fan spedd to 100%, drops my card temp by 15 degrees

hmm never heard of it, gotta link?

[K8T]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

Well with the card being so old its memory thermal compound could be dryed up, if you know how, pick up some new thermal compound and re-apply them to the memory chips on the card then re-attach the heatsink + fan.

[Reeps]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/V...rtDoctor.shtml, says its for asus cards but works for me...

[12:oc7ock]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/V...rtDoctor.shtml, says its for asus cards but works for me...

I installed the program and it says it can't find an ASUS gfx card. Did it tell you that? what kind of card and MOBO do u have?

[Reeps]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

hmmm i'll look into this for you m8 but i won't reply until tomorrow....

[12:oc7ock]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

Well, i took the card apart and there was literally a wall of dust caked up against the heatsink blocking all airflow. So looks like I get to take the thermal compound back and save $10. Dust is the anti-christ.

[K8T]

Re: card overheating, but fan is good, wtf?

Haha that would be right, all them older cards must be getting dusty thermal compound by now. Make sure you apply it to the memory and the core, if you have never done it before just put blobs on each thing, dont worry about flattning it out, when you put the heatsink on that should flatten everything for ya. Also, try and get some thick stuff too, the real wet stuff kinda sucks.