- Joined
- Jan 6, 2011
- Location
- California, USA
Hey O/C'ers, i need help.
A few weeks back i changed out my stock cpu fan and heatsink and in the process of doing so, i touched the smaller heatsink, it was way hotter than my stock cpu heatsink.
So i decide to look for an upgrade for it, not much on the net for my onboard gpu and my local frys didn't have anything for it.
So i decided to pick up a cheap video card and an appropriate psu.
The installation was simple for both.
My question is, Why is the onboard gpu still getting hot if i have the video card installed?
I checked the windows rating and it went from 3.0 to 3.7, what that tells me, is that the new card is being used, the new video card also gets warm, not nearly as hot as the onboard gpu.
I downloaded speedfan 4.42, it's telling me that my gpu is around 118F as i'm writing this, when i'm playing facebook games it jumps to around 130F with a little flame next to it instead of a red or blue arrow.
Yeah, i just admitted to playing facebook games, haha.
So, again my question is why is the onboard gpu still getting hot?
A few weeks back i changed out my stock cpu fan and heatsink and in the process of doing so, i touched the smaller heatsink, it was way hotter than my stock cpu heatsink.
So i decide to look for an upgrade for it, not much on the net for my onboard gpu and my local frys didn't have anything for it.
So i decided to pick up a cheap video card and an appropriate psu.
The installation was simple for both.
My question is, Why is the onboard gpu still getting hot if i have the video card installed?
I checked the windows rating and it went from 3.0 to 3.7, what that tells me, is that the new card is being used, the new video card also gets warm, not nearly as hot as the onboard gpu.
I downloaded speedfan 4.42, it's telling me that my gpu is around 118F as i'm writing this, when i'm playing facebook games it jumps to around 130F with a little flame next to it instead of a red or blue arrow.
Yeah, i just admitted to playing facebook games, haha.
So, again my question is why is the onboard gpu still getting hot?