If it gets too hot? My gpu is a 9800 GTX+ had it for a couple years now.. But recently and usually only while playing League of Legends, the computer will just reboot in the middle of the game. I check my temps with Speed Fan 4.45 and my gpu is usually in the 50-60C range and sometimes the CPU is near 50C. But I am at my wits end here, I used a can of air to clean the computer out.. right now on idle my GPU is sitting at 56C with no games running but just the browser and my CPU temp is at 42C. I'm thinking maybe some new thermal paste? I haven;t applied any in about a year or so? Or do I need a better cooler than my stock one? ITs never given me problems before now, so I dunno.. Thanks for any help you can give. Quick thing though, is that when it reboots nothing feels hot at all in the cpu.. so I really don't know what's up.
A GPU overheating can blue screen your computer which can cause a freeze up or reboot. Also I would check your CPU temps on load. Try something like this: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ Also use EVGA Precision to see exactly what your GPU is doing during load: http://www.evga.com/precision/ Hope all is well Cox.
It could just be the GPU going bad, it is from that generation with known defective Silicon. Lower temperatures always help, but 60c is nothing to worry about. You should start getting worried in the temps are between 80-90c or higher. Could be a RAM issue as those are hard to track down and cause crashing problems at random when under stress. Or maybe a PSU issue with not being able to supply enough power anymore or is having trouble keeping it stable enough. You can try applying new thermal paste if you know how to do that. TIM does dry out and become less effective as years go by.
Hmm... see that's the weird thing. My CPU is usually around 45-50c and nothing is ever hot when it reboots. My ram is the oldest piece in my computer currently. Which is funny I have 6gb but it shows 5gb even though I'm on 64 bit. Also psu. Is a 750 Watt corsair. About 2 Yeats old maybe..
PSU should be fine then, its probably a quality one and not that old. Temps seem fine too. CPUs can usually go to 60c perfectly fine but start running into trouble around the 70c mark. GPUs are designed to go up to like 80-90c before they have problems Could just be LoL + Nvidia sucks. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1270594
Holy Hell... I had forgotten about the EvGA precision tool. I just turned my gfx card fan up from 35 rpm to 100% RPM and definitely saw a decrease in temp ASAP. I totally had forgotten about that.. What else can I do with this tool to twerk it?
I use dual monitors and always have EVGA precision up when i'm gaming. My old GTX 285 OCs SLIed run extremely hot so I usually run my fans at around 70% speed when the load is usually 50-70% load on most games. If the load is above 90 per my gfx cards will go up to over 80C even with 100% fan speed. I spoke to BFG about this when they still existed and the guy said the card was meant to be hot. And that the fan usage would stay at 40% until the card went over 80C. It sounds like it is a memory issue Cox, you may want to take all of your memory chips out but one and then keep replacing them to test each one. See if you get any boot errors with any of them. Or you could just replace your memory with chips that you know work well.
Could try downclocking it to help with temps. My 8800gt finally over heated on me, and unless I wanted to tear it down and re-do the TIM on it then was wasn't much left of it. Except for me, it was just hard lock whatever game I was playing - once it got too hot. Eventually it just artifacted even on the desktop from heat so I had to just replace it.