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Re: Graphics card crashing [Solved]
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 8:06 pm
by Marth8880
Wow, I sure hope your other components can perform as well as that high-end graphics card, because if they can't, you just wasted an awful lot of money. But either way, great! Good to hear everything's working again! :2
Re: Graphics card crashing [Solved]
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:22 am
by Teancum
What you described is a telltale sign of an overheated GPU. It's a good thing you replaced it. Once any processor, be it a CPU, GPU, whatever, gets overheated it can never perform the same again, and 99% of the time is a short ways away from total failure. There's nothing you can do to save them at that point.
Well, you can extend their life for a short time. Once, when I was totally broke I took the side of my case off, put a box fan up to it and ran the fan on high any time I was on the computer. It kept things cool, but the fix only lasted a few weeks.
Re: Graphics card crashing [Solved]
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:01 pm
by Fiodis
Marth8880 wrote:Wow, I sure hope your other components can perform as well as that high-end graphics card, because if they can't, you just wasted an awful lot of money. But either way, great! Good to hear everything's working again! :2
Well, I've never ever replaced a graphics card before, so I thought I was due for a splurge.
Teancum wrote:Well, you can extend their life for a short time. Once, when I was totally broke I took the side of my case off, put a box fan up to it and ran the fan on high any time I was on the computer. It kept things cool, but the fix only lasted a few weeks.
I guess that's what I was doing when I set GPU fan speed to 100% with RivaTuner any time I started up Windows. That also lasted about two weeks.