T_larson911
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- Aug 17, 2012
Hello guys, this is my first thread on this forum.
I have recently installed an ATI Radeon 3870 HD in my rig a few days ago. The performance seems pretty good with all my games, but there is a problem.
The card gets hot, like it went up to 115C and then my games would crash and the taskbar will show a message saying the the video driver has stopped working. Sometimes the system would restart when it gets too hot.
I took off the cooling case and it's not dusty, but I used the air compressor on it anyways. I checked the heat sink solution and put new Arctic Silver thermal paste on it.
Still runs up to 105+ Celsius.
I did one more thing though...
I checked the GPU specs for my card and I saw that they were clocked at 775Mhz for the core, so I clocked it from 800 (which apparently is the factory default?!?) and downclocked it to 775. Still gets pretty hot...
Does anyone have any ideas what is up with my card? Is it junk?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I have recently installed an ATI Radeon 3870 HD in my rig a few days ago. The performance seems pretty good with all my games, but there is a problem.
The card gets hot, like it went up to 115C and then my games would crash and the taskbar will show a message saying the the video driver has stopped working. Sometimes the system would restart when it gets too hot.
I took off the cooling case and it's not dusty, but I used the air compressor on it anyways. I checked the heat sink solution and put new Arctic Silver thermal paste on it.
Still runs up to 105+ Celsius.
I did one more thing though...
I checked the GPU specs for my card and I saw that they were clocked at 775Mhz for the core, so I clocked it from 800 (which apparently is the factory default?!?) and downclocked it to 775. Still gets pretty hot...
Does anyone have any ideas what is up with my card? Is it junk?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.