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puncake

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Video Card Overheating
« on: August 04, 2009, 11:32:38 PM »
Hi, so i just built my first custom computer. i've been running World of Warcraft of the highest graphics, and Dawn of War  II on the highest graphics. Both of these games were running amazing for about 2 weeks. but now World of Warcraft keeps lagging up and even though i have turned down the graphics all the way it still keeps lagging up. i know its not my internet connection. i downloaded a program called SpeedFan to see if my computer was overheating my graphics card is roaming between 56 and 70 when im playing. im still not sure if overheating is even the problem but thats what im trying t figure out. my cpu and core temperatures are below 30 Celsius.

these are my computer specs.

Antec 300 case. i have 2 120mm fans in the front. 1 120mm on the side, another 120mm on the back and a 140mm on top. all of the fans are running at full speed.

Motherboard: EVGA 3 PCI on board gforce 8600 Graphics

CPU:  AMD Athlon X2 7750(2.7GHz)

Ram: 2G Gskill 800mhz

Hard drive: WD 320 Gig

Power supply: Cooler master 500w

Video Card/ Graphics: Evga 9600GT Gforce

Heat Sync: Cooler master 120mm fan   

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Re: Video Card Overheating
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 04:37:28 AM »
Check your Task Manager. Are there any other processes using up your CPU %age?

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    Re: Video Card Overheating
    « Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 05:42:48 AM »
    When was the last time you "defragged" the logical disk drives?

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      Re: Video Card Overheating
      « Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 06:05:15 AM »
      Those GPU temps look pretty normal.  What are the load temps on your CPU, the ones you posted look more like idle temps.