depends. Many will slow down first and see if that helps cool things enough to keep going.
If that doesn't work, they turn themselves off.
depends. Many will slow down first and see if that helps cool things enough to keep going.
If that doesn't work, they turn themselves off.
That seems most likely what mine is doing - if I turn it off for 20 minutes or so it's fine then it happens again.Originally Posted by jwenting
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Mine use to do the same exact thing. Except if I kept playing for another 30-1 hour it would get weird lines going up and down the screen, and shut down eventualy...
I got 2x 120mm fans, a new heat sink for CPU (Zalman CNPS7700) and VGA (Zalman VF700). Also a new north bridge heat sink.
After that, i've never had any problems, my ATI 9800 pro has been running like a dream ever since, no freezing no weird lines, never shutting down. I've had some 20 hour gaming sessions too :-|
So it might just be heating problems. Of course I also reinstalled Windows.
The 7800GTX is a very powerfull card, its cooling might just not be sufficient enough to keep it cool.
Also check if the card comes overclocked, i've seen many cards being shipped overclocked. One of my friends bought a 7800GT, and his was overclocked a bit.
Can your card measure its temp? Most NVIDIA cards should. Play for a while, and keep alt-tabing every few minutes to check up on the temperature. Im not sure how hot is hot for a VGA but it shouldn't go above 80C?
Last edited by mrafcho001; 02-13-2006 at 06:14 PM.
Also, incase you were avoiding considering it, you could always lower the quality of the games' graphics and that should help with the overheating, me thinks.
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Open the case to the air, thatll reduce heat a good bit. (For the computer, you'll fry like an egg
Heat is a big cause. Sence you built your computer, it could be something is incompatable (I had a problem with mine for two years, it would shut off after 3~4 minutes in an intensly graphic game, really sucked :P. Turned out to be my nVidia card's adapter was incapatable with the nVidia card itself! I had to chuck out the whole card though, it had overheated and was starting to melt, damn adapter >.<) Anyways, if somethings incompatable, you should replace it. Games stalling is usualy a RAM issue. Use a ram-checking program (http://www.memtest86.com/) to see if your rams bad. Also, your sound card could be the cuplrit, onboard stuff is always troublesome. If the AC'97 card isint actualy installed on the motherboard, but is a seperate chip, I suggest turning it off in the BIOS.
Two years of trying to fix a computer, you get to know theyse things.
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