Hello all,
I'm having a problem that started a few months ago.
The problem:
During certain hardware-stressing games (such as Far Cry, Doom3, Half Life 2), the game will be fine at first, then after 10 minutes or so, I start to see artifacts flashing on the screen. It gets worse and worse until it starts to freeze for a few seconds at a time. If it's Doom3, it will just freeze completely (hard reset required). I've done some research and I believed it to be overheating.
At first I thought that the graphics card was going bad (PNY GeForce 6800 GT), so I sent it in on warranty. While I was waiting for the warranty rebuild to be returned to me I purchased a BFG GeForce 6800 GT. Same problems with the BFG.
I thought it was the chipset so (after updating every driver I could think of, including video and chipset) I switched motherboards (I was using an MSI Neo PT-880 .. VIA 880 chipset) to an ABIT IC7-G .. Intel 875 Chipset.
Current hardware:
Intel 3.2Ghz Pentium 4
ABIT IC7-G Motherboard (using onboard sound/network)
1 gig DDR2 non-parity RAM (2x512m)
BFG GeForce 6800 GT AGP
2 IDE hard drives
2 IDE CD drives
Now .. for the temperatures:
I'm in the San Francisco bay area, normal daytime temperatures are around 85 degrees F. I don't have air conditioning, so room temperature is that.
Using speedfan I see:
Temp1: 33C
Temp2: 53C
Temp3: 36C
Local: 35C
Remote: 42C
HD1: 39C
Temp1: 58C
I don't know what the "temp's" refer to.
Using ABIT's temperature program, it says my CPU is currently sitting at 55C, system is 33C and PWM is 36C (no load on the CPU)
Using nVidia's control panel, it says my GPU is at 51C while ambient temperature is 35C.
Now .. I've done everything that I can think of to cool it off:
I've replaced the CPU fan with a Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu (it was previously seeing the exact same temperatures with the standard intel fan (boxed set CPU/fan).
When I replaced the fan, I cleaned off the CPU's old thermal greese and applied the new greese.
I've replaced the standard BFG 6800 GT fan with a Zalman VF700-Cu. (slight temperature change was noticed).
During gaming, I see the CPU getting to 65C and the GPU getting to 70C.
I've installed two case fans, one on the side which blows air directly in near the CPU, one in the back/top of the case next to the CPU which sucks air out.
Even after all this, it still seems to me that it's running way to hot (intel recommends 38C for the CPU), and it starts to glitch and lock up during gaming.
Any advice?
I'm having a problem that started a few months ago.
The problem:
During certain hardware-stressing games (such as Far Cry, Doom3, Half Life 2), the game will be fine at first, then after 10 minutes or so, I start to see artifacts flashing on the screen. It gets worse and worse until it starts to freeze for a few seconds at a time. If it's Doom3, it will just freeze completely (hard reset required). I've done some research and I believed it to be overheating.
At first I thought that the graphics card was going bad (PNY GeForce 6800 GT), so I sent it in on warranty. While I was waiting for the warranty rebuild to be returned to me I purchased a BFG GeForce 6800 GT. Same problems with the BFG.
I thought it was the chipset so (after updating every driver I could think of, including video and chipset) I switched motherboards (I was using an MSI Neo PT-880 .. VIA 880 chipset) to an ABIT IC7-G .. Intel 875 Chipset.
Current hardware:
Intel 3.2Ghz Pentium 4
ABIT IC7-G Motherboard (using onboard sound/network)
1 gig DDR2 non-parity RAM (2x512m)
BFG GeForce 6800 GT AGP
2 IDE hard drives
2 IDE CD drives
Now .. for the temperatures:
I'm in the San Francisco bay area, normal daytime temperatures are around 85 degrees F. I don't have air conditioning, so room temperature is that.
Using speedfan I see:
Temp1: 33C
Temp2: 53C
Temp3: 36C
Local: 35C
Remote: 42C
HD1: 39C
Temp1: 58C
I don't know what the "temp's" refer to.
Using ABIT's temperature program, it says my CPU is currently sitting at 55C, system is 33C and PWM is 36C (no load on the CPU)
Using nVidia's control panel, it says my GPU is at 51C while ambient temperature is 35C.
Now .. I've done everything that I can think of to cool it off:
I've replaced the CPU fan with a Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu (it was previously seeing the exact same temperatures with the standard intel fan (boxed set CPU/fan).
When I replaced the fan, I cleaned off the CPU's old thermal greese and applied the new greese.
I've replaced the standard BFG 6800 GT fan with a Zalman VF700-Cu. (slight temperature change was noticed).
During gaming, I see the CPU getting to 65C and the GPU getting to 70C.
I've installed two case fans, one on the side which blows air directly in near the CPU, one in the back/top of the case next to the CPU which sucks air out.
Even after all this, it still seems to me that it's running way to hot (intel recommends 38C for the CPU), and it starts to glitch and lock up during gaming.
Any advice?