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ok to start at the beginning
about a year ago i bought a xfx 7950 GT, this card had a passive cooling which as some might know just plain doese not work :P
the first week or so i tryed with the passive kooling often finding the card running 80-98 (98 was the last recorded temp before the screen froze) degree's then i put a 90mm casefan on top of the cool ribs and it never got over 68 degree's so the problem was solved.
however it seems that the few hours of running at those high temp's has damaged the card, often if i watch downloaded movies on my tv through the TV out the screen wil get realy messed up with no possible way to fix it untill i reboot. this is just becouse the card is in someway damaged maby becouse of the high temps maby i just got one of the crappier one's i dont know.
recently i've been blessed with yet another seemingly gfx card related bug
wile playing games (fyi the weird screen stuff only happend wile watching vids never ever wile playing games) i've had that games lockup for 1-2 sec and just when im about to hit my pc's resetswitch they continue like nothing happend, appart from that i sometimes have that my screen go's black for a verry short time also only wile gaming.
now i was woundering, my instinkt tells me that this is my gfx card slowly dieing. however i wanted a second oppinion with the question could this also be a PSU problem?
i dont realy know what happens if a system doesnt get enough power... i thought/think it would just suddenly turn off but seeing how i've never experienced or seen anything like that i wouldnt realy know.
so i hope someone could shed some light on this problem and the fear that my psu needs replacing :P
-anubis
about a year ago i bought a xfx 7950 GT, this card had a passive cooling which as some might know just plain doese not work :P
the first week or so i tryed with the passive kooling often finding the card running 80-98 (98 was the last recorded temp before the screen froze) degree's then i put a 90mm casefan on top of the cool ribs and it never got over 68 degree's so the problem was solved.
however it seems that the few hours of running at those high temp's has damaged the card, often if i watch downloaded movies on my tv through the TV out the screen wil get realy messed up with no possible way to fix it untill i reboot. this is just becouse the card is in someway damaged maby becouse of the high temps maby i just got one of the crappier one's i dont know.
recently i've been blessed with yet another seemingly gfx card related bug
wile playing games (fyi the weird screen stuff only happend wile watching vids never ever wile playing games) i've had that games lockup for 1-2 sec and just when im about to hit my pc's resetswitch they continue like nothing happend, appart from that i sometimes have that my screen go's black for a verry short time also only wile gaming.
now i was woundering, my instinkt tells me that this is my gfx card slowly dieing. however i wanted a second oppinion with the question could this also be a PSU problem?
i dont realy know what happens if a system doesnt get enough power... i thought/think it would just suddenly turn off but seeing how i've never experienced or seen anything like that i wouldnt realy know.
so i hope someone could shed some light on this problem and the fear that my psu needs replacing :P
-anubis
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