Another faulty GFX card?

[Landerin]

I recently replaced a faulty 8800gts with a nice shiny new Saphir Radeon 4850 512mb, but now i have the problem that i can't play games due to the GPU idleing at 80c and when i log into eve it shoots to 85c and shuts down my PC.

Would you say this is a faulty card, or is the stock cooler on them not enough to cool the card to be able to game on?

[monkey7]

Although the 4850 is toasty, the stock cooler on the two cards I have used keeps it around a fair idle and scorching 85*C at full load. My guess is bad chip or someone forgot to put the thermal crap between the card and cooler. Which would be silly.

[Landerin]

i have the urge to just burn my PC now just to make sure nothing can go wrong with it again ><

[Rastalovich]

Has to be the way u have the rig installed.

Can u up some pics of the internals ?

[Luigi]

Judging by the fact you killed the last card, I would suggest a better case or more case fans?

[nathan]

motherboard giving an over voltage?

[fruityness]

4850's run hot as hell as standard, check in the catalyst control center, the overdrive part, if the fans are on at all? Personally I think they borked up how / when the fans should start.

Anyhoo, you can enable manual fan control here, to say always have them on 50% etc etc, though the fans themselves are damn noisy. Have a play with the fan setting see if you can get the heat under control.

Other thing is to whip off the stock cooler, should just be a simple case of a few small screws on the back, and could then clean off the GPU and reapply some arctic silver, reseat the heatsink/fan and see if that helps.

[PV5150]

Originally Posted by name='fruityness'

Other thing is to whip off the stock cooler, should just be a simple case of a few small screws on the back, and could then clean off the GPU and reapply some arctic silver, reseat the heatsink/fan and see if that helps.

I'd be using something non-conductive myself instead of Arctic Silver - try some Arctic Ceramique or any of the number of 'new breed' thermal pastes like Noctua NT-H1/Tuniq TX.

[Landerin]

well i have manualy put the fan speed to 100% through Catalyst and now the temps are at about 70c when i am running eve-online, but if i stay in eve for too long can be 5-30mins with the screen sat there the screen suddenly goes blank and comes up with either, out of range, or no signal input.

edit P.S. i will try an get some pic uploaded.

[Youngie1337]

Sounds like your GPU is brokdededed, having a temp of 70c will NOT make your graphics card overheat, the problem could be your case and circulation, have you tried reseating your GPU and checking the fan is not dusty etc... Just the simple things make a big difference.