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[Villain]

temperature of which part of my pc should i check with HW monitor? There are different temperatures for different parts! All other temp is 35-40 degree celsius! But my VGA which is Nvidia Geforce 8400GS is raising till 60 degree celsius!

 

[puddleduck]

Yash that is fine dude The only thing you may consider is adding an external PCI cooler to compliment your Graphics card due to it clearly being your most intensive piece of hardware. However, at those temps, probably not worth it

 

[Chewie]

Graphics cards are designed to handle up to around 90 degrees under load, so while 60 is a bit high, it's fine

 

[Gurjot95]

So as I told in my previous post, My Graphic Card was raising above 120 at idle and I knew that's sign of danger and now it's damaged. Now let me tell you full story, It all started week ago, while playing GTA IV, I got too much freezes after every 2 min so I decided to check whether it's due to overheating of Graphic Card and it did showed 93C while gaming (don't know it's normal) and 65 at Idle. I Installed Rivatuner, set fan to 70%, no changes. Did some overclocking, increased core by 66, memory clock by 80, temp same. After sometime, it's temperature started increasing and I set all values to default but temp was still raising even at idle. Now my PC won't run with GC inserted. Do you think it can get fixed? I really hope so..

PS: I did installed iCEnhancer Mod for GTA IV and it says "This version uses the 0.082 DLL as a base
Which means : Overheating of videocards NVidia GF8800, high end from GF2xx series and most from GF4xx, GF5xx" but I uninstalled it weeks ago even before the problem came.

Now I am confused. Nvidia 9600gt 1GB DDR2

 

[AngryPixel]

I'm just shocked.... My graphic card worked and how it worked is just unbelievable. Some guys at overclock.net suggested me this fix. So here it is what i did.
Removed the cooler from the GPU and removed all the heatsinks. Cleaned the thermal paste from the GPU chip. Now i preheated a over at 200C for 20 minutes. Yeah thats right, we gonna bake the little bugger. then i created a aluminum plate using the aluminum foil and made 4 spherical balls from aluminum foil. Then i placed the Graphics card with GPU chip facing downward on the aluminum plate and used the 4 spherical balls to give separation in between. Placed the little bugger in the Oven and baked it at 200C for 20 minutes. Then i took it out and allowed it to cool in air. After half an hour i reassembled the card and voila! it worked Will post some of the pics taken during the procedure later.
It just saved my 100 Bucks which i gonna spend on next card

Try this if nothing works

 

[Gurjot95]

That sounds too complicated for me . You baked Graphic Card?

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My problem is exactly same like this guy-
BF3 overheating card GTS250 - NVIDIA Forums

So I was right. High Temp caused game to freeze.

 

[AngryPixel]

That sounds too complicated for me . You baked Graphic Card?

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My problem is exactly same like this guy-
BF3 overheating card GTS250 - NVIDIA Forums

So I was right. High Temp caused game to freeze.

Yeah i did mate.. And it worked.. The card is still working like a new one. No problem since that day.
Basically what happens is that the micro-contacts of GPU gets broken after a few years. They cause the problems. By baking the contacts melted and cracks are filled again.

 

[Gurjot95]

A detailed info with screens will help or it's original source? Thanks.

 

[AngryPixel]

Fix your 8800gtx Graphics Card (STEP by STEP) by Baking it in the OVEN. - YouTube

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Bake your Graphics Card in the Oven Fix " IT WORKED" - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

 

[Gurjot95]

Thanks, now only question I have is all the people I have seen baking the card have artifacts problem and their PC actually starts unlike mine. My CPU shows light for 1 second and switch off when GC inserted. So now my Graphic card is dead, I don't know if that method will be a risk. I may give it to a computer engineer and if he failed to repair it and I have no options left, I will try that!

 

[AngryPixel]

Thats why I said that is your last option. You'll have nothing to loose

 

[Akul]

Well ... I am upgrading my PC ...... I want to play Hardcore games like GTA 4 , Crysis Etc ..

My Current Configs are

Windows 7 Ultimate
2 GB Ram
320 GB HDD
Nvidia 256 MB Video Card
AMD Athlon X2 @ 2.9 ghz


My Budget is maximum 25 k

Please give sugestions

 

[AngryPixel]

Here is my suggestion mate.
Get one of the best GPU and a decent CPU. Looking at your budget we will look for a GPU first.

GPU: ATI 6950 TheITWares - One Stop for all Gizmos!MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III PE/OC Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
Cost: 16200

CPU: Core i5 TheITWares - One Stop for all Gizmos!Intel Core i5 2320 Sandy Bridge 3.0GHz (3.3GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52320

Cost: 9300

Total Cost : 25500.

If you can squeez in a fe more bucks then do a RAM upgrade. you can get a transcend 4gb ddr3 RAM for 1300 INR.

I hope this helps...

 

[puddleduck]

As AP said, an i5 quad core sandy bridge will give you all the processing power you need and then just invest what you can in the graphics card. I'd suggest looking at the feasibility of 6-8gig of ram as well.

 

[Gurjot95]

Last time I saw, Core i5 was +11K so I got AMD Phenom II X4 945 instead