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2011-05-22, 10:41 AM #21Deleted
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2011-05-22, 10:44 AM #22Dreadlord
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Just make sure you don't get dust on your food.
"There cannot be true dispair without hope." - Bane
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2011-05-22, 10:45 AM #23DeletedThank you for the pro tip, dust wouldn't taste so good, I guess. But I'm heading for lunch now, thank you for all of your help, so I'm not houseless within a day or two Originally Posted by pOO flinger
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2011-05-22, 10:47 AM #24Bloodsail Admiral
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Yeah that is a bit of a bummer. Originally Posted by pOO flinger
Reminds me of an old youtube video watched once of a guy making scrambled eggs on his busted Xbox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLabckoPC0g
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2011-05-22, 10:52 AM #25Dreadlord
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OMG i am totally going to do that with my old RRoD 360! Originally Posted by Sensei_Sin
Yeah that is a bit of a bummer.
Reminds me of an old youtube video watched once of a guy making scrambled eggs on his busted Xbox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLabckoPC0g
I have a MW 2 edition 360 now so i don't care about my old one."There cannot be true dispair without hope." - Bane
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2011-05-22, 10:54 AM #26Deletedwell if the fan isnt moving that will be why its overheating :P Originally Posted by Kwannie
clean it out and dont put heavy use on it till you do or you could lose your graphics card.
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2011-05-22, 10:56 AM #27High Overlord
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I hope you mean CPU temps! :P I thought I was doing pretty well with my dual 6970's at 55c idle (85c load).... :x Originally Posted by Xifer
Past 'rigs in service (Now the dad's gaming rig):
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2011-05-22, 10:59 AM #28Bloodsail Admiral
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Don't want to further de-rail the thread so sent you a PM. Originally Posted by pOO flinger
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2011-05-22, 11:26 AM #29Pit Lord
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you should always get compressed air and clean out your graphics card and pc every few months.
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2011-05-22, 11:36 AM #30The Patient
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Just in case - when you use the compressed air can, make sure to hold the fan so it doesn't spin, to prevent damage to the fan. If the fan still won't spin after you clean it up... I wouldn't recommend any gaming whatsoever until you either fix the card or get a new one.
You really shouldn't get to 90-100C on a GPU, and with WoW you should be looking at 80-ish since it is not as graphically intensive, depending on your setup.
And, as mentioned before, clean the rest of your components (motherboard radiators, CPU fan/radiator, PSU fan etc.) while you're at it. Just remember to prevent any fans from spinning when you use the compressed air can. Originally Posted by Ascherzon
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2011-05-22, 01:36 PM #31Warchief
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You may have already done the damage. 120C for a couple months at the start of WOTLK was all that was needed to kill my Nvidia card. Originally Posted by Kwannie
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2011-05-22, 01:39 PM #32Bloodsail Admiral
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I had an issue like this recently. It ended up burning out the power supply. Always keep your computer clean. At least once a year (or 2 if you don't have pets) open it up and check it. If it needs it use compressed air to clean it.
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2011-05-22, 03:01 PM #33Deleted
Now I've cleansed it, 75 C after 5 minutes, whereas yesterday 5minutes = 120 C
Someone earlier said that 80 C wasn't a problem, is that true or should I try cleaning it even further?
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2011-05-22, 03:05 PM #34The Patient
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get yourself an Air Duster
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=air...w=1920&bih=965
I normally take my computer to the balcony every few months and blow tons of dust out. also, take off any graphics card casing as the dust is probably accumulating there too.
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2011-05-22, 03:06 PM #35The Patient
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Yea, shoot air through it, Dust is the fan destroyer!
v you dun got goofed bro!
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Originally Posted by Abandon
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2011-05-22, 03:10 PM #36Pandaren Monk
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Or buy a new graphic card ....
Stolen ... from elyssia .... mad elyssia?
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2011-05-22, 03:17 PM #37Deleted
If you read what I said three posts above, you can see that the tempature has fallen with about 40-50 degrees after cleaning it, and my FPS is stable once more, 30 in Org and 30-60 in Dungeons, instead of 15 everywhere.
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2011-05-22, 03:19 PM #38High Overlord
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Turn it off and vacuum it out. That'll help. Also, if you feel your card gets too hot you can download msi afterburner and adjust fan speeds.
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2011-05-22, 03:46 PM #39Dreadlord
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Some HSFs (Heatsink+Fans) are designed by engineers. Others are designed by 4 year olds with downs after they sniff a can of glue. I have the original ATi hd4850, which has one of the latter.
There's basically what I call a "dust collection chamber" inside, because that's exactly how it functions, and if you were to design a dust collector smartly, it would look a lot like the HSF on this card. Every 6-12 months I have to open it up and clean it out. And doing so requires the removal of -18- (yes eighteen) screws.
Within around 6 months of release, ATi realized how stupid they were and changed the reference HSF to one that made sense, but this didn't help me out any >_<
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