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    boiling water with my gpu

    i have a ati 1950pro, after playing 10 min in game with settings at low, and AA at 2x ( without aa causes a mesh overlay over the entire screen and i cant see crap) my gpu temp is at 105C and artifacts start occuring... aside from a new card and/or cooling thing.. is there anything i can do? 9i have cleaned out my fans already too)... fwiw normal temp in bf2 or css or arma was under 60
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    Re: boiling water with my gpu

    You should post this in Hardware.

    Is the fan running well? Case ventilated well? Take off the side of the case and try it and see what that gets you. Really, sounds like something is wrong. Maybe pull the heatsink, clean it and reseat it with new thermal compound.
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    Re: boiling water with my gpu

    i pulled the heatsink off, the thermal paste was dry and wasnt bonded at all much, i applied some new stuff liberally... and i hit the fins and fan with some canned air again.. some dust flew from the tube-shaped fins... mighta been plugged wherever the temp probe was and the 105 cutoff triggered by the probe being hotter than the card.. the card is idle @ 40 now.. 20 less than the norm idle.. gonna boot up the game now.. case is well ventilated.. 1x120mm front intake.. 2x 120mm exhaust rear/top and 1 120mm blowing directly on the gfx card
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    Re: boiling water with my gpu

    Did you remove the old paste?


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    Re: boiling water with my gpu

    yes =P and i tried it out in game.... 65C was the hottest it got.. so i OCed it and tried it with the same high temp.. so im set... lol
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