X800 overheating?

[ac@techDoc]

My computer keeps restarting and I think it's because of my X800. A
utility I installed called Speedfan indicates that the temperature is
at 50c at idle and about 63c while playing World of Warcraft.

Cooling setup
-------------------
one large case fan.
two fans on the Antec 480W PSU.
two small fans on the removable panel.
one CPU heatsink fan.

So, short of liquid cooling, I don't know what else to do? Do these
cards normally run hot enough to restart your computer twice a day
while gaming?

Would an ATI Silencer 4 (Rev. 2) help? And how does this get installed?
there is already a fan on the graphics card. Do I remove the existing
fan and replace it with the ATI Silencer 4 (Rev. 2)?

Thanks.

-ac

 

[Andy H]

My computer keeps restarting and I think it's because of my X800. A
utility I installed called Speedfan indicates that the temperature is
at 50c at idle and about 63c while playing World of Warcraft.

Cooling setup
-------------------
one large case fan.
two fans on the Antec 480W PSU.
two small fans on the removable panel.
one CPU heatsink fan.

So, short of liquid cooling, I don't know what else to do? Do these
cards normally run hot enough to restart your computer twice a day
while gaming?

Would an ATI Silencer 4 (Rev. 2) help? And how does this get installed?
there is already a fan on the graphics card. Do I remove the existing
fan and replace it with the ATI Silencer 4 (Rev. 2)?

Thanks.

-ac

It's unlikely your gfx card is causing reboots at those temps, off the top
of my head I think the X800 core is good up to 90+°C.

1st place to startis to stop xp (you are running xp aren't you?)
automatically rebooting on any bsod so you can catch the error code. Then do
a google search based on that.

Andy H

 

[ac@techDoc]

naw, I'm not getting a bsod. It just quits and reboots. I'm not even
getting a log entry.

 

[James]

My x850 XT runs ok with Battlefield 2 at about 90c (idles at 52c). Any
higher and I get a VPU recover warning - with the ATI catalyst drivers
it senses the overheat and slows the clock down. At the slower rate its
fine for surfing but too slow for gaming. I am investigating better
case fans. The 850 XT has a huge fan and heatsink which take up a whole
extra slot so its hard to conceive of replacing the onboard fan with
something dramatically cooler.

How warm is the room air? Turning my AC on and cooling the room to 22c
from 30c made the difference last night. You also need to ensure that
your fans and intakes are not blocked - they should be 6 inches from
the nearest obstruction.

James

 

[Dr Teeth]

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "ac@techDoc"

naw, I'm not getting a bsod. It just quits and reboots. I'm not even
getting a log entry.

When was the last time that you cleaned all of the dist etc from your
CPU and GPU HSF's (heat sink fans)?

Have a good blast with compressed air (preferably outside <g>). My PC
is usually on 24/7 and I do that every 3 months and never cease to be
amazed at the crud that is displaced.

It may help your problem or may not.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[bandit]

naw, I'm not getting a bsod. It just quits and reboots. I'm not even
getting a log entry.

could be you're power supply ? does it do it only under load or just
when sitting? you might have to much stuff pulling power. what all do
you have in the system?

or it could be ram going bad I had a computer do that one time it
turned out to be bad ram,the computer would boot up ok but when I
tried to play game or anything it would reboot

 

[Thomas]

My computer keeps restarting and I think it's because of my X800. A
utility I installed called Speedfan indicates that the temperature is
at 50c at idle and about 63c while playing World of Warcraft.

You can try to remove the x800 fan, clean out all the muck ATI has pasted
between GPU and heatsink, and replace that with a nice thin layer of your
preferred cooling paste.

When I swapped the original ATI cooling solution on my x800 for my
watercooler, I couldn't believe how much stuff they managed to squeeze
between GPU and sink...

By the way, I concur with others here in saying the temperatures you mention
are not that high. You're sure your memory isn't failing, and your CPU isn't
overheating?

 

[oldwolf]

To stop it restarting automatically, go into System Properties>Advanced
tab>Startup & Recovery Settings>uncheck Automatically Restart. You can then
get a look at the error that is giving you troubles.
In regards to your Vid Card, you should replace the cooler with possibly the
Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5, (Fits the X8xx series,AGP & PCI-E and is very
easy to do). It dropped the temps on my X850XT down to ~33c, at idle and ~55
for full load under 3D, eg. FEAR, Farcry, Call of Duty 2, Quake4, and
Oblivion etc. It is also very, very quiet. ( I cant hear it sitting next to
me on the desk).
Is your case fan at the front or rear? if front change it to the rear or get
another for the rear.

My computer keeps restarting and I think it's because of my X800. A
utility I installed called Speedfan indicates that the temperature is
at 50c at idle and about 63c while playing World of Warcraft.

Cooling setup
-------------------
one large case fan.
two fans on the Antec 480W PSU.
two small fans on the removable panel.
one CPU heatsink fan.

So, short of liquid cooling, I don't know what else to do? Do these
cards normally run hot enough to restart your computer twice a day
while gaming?

Would an ATI Silencer 4 (Rev. 2) help? And how does this get installed?
there is already a fan on the graphics card. Do I remove the existing
fan and replace it with the ATI Silencer 4 (Rev. 2)?

Thanks.

-ac