Dying Card?

[Sergio Ramos]

My card seem to have increase 10ºc in idling temperature all of a sudden and also keeps getting lost signal on my monitor randomly, any idea why?

 

[AizenSousuke]

My card seem to have increase 10ºc in idling temperature all of a sudden and also keeps getting lost signal on my monitor randomly, any idea why?

Did you clear the dust on it?

 

[Assault]

I got nothing to contribute except nice goal yesterday night Sergio!

 

[Sergio Ramos]

Did you clear the dust on it?

Yes i did. Now i am getting frequent screen hangs but then back to normal when i swap the cable to mobo's DVI port.

 

[StopJoking]

how old is your card? maybe time to reapply thermal paste?

 

[jtjt00]

GPU going up lorry................

 

[Ava|on]

I also got the same problem with my 2 year old+ GTX 590. I remember when I first got the card, Dota 2 only pushes the card to 78-82ºC. Now it goes up to 88-92ºC. Playing Watch_Dogs on my rig now pushes my card temp to 92-95ºC.

My monitor also occasionally black out and that will cause my computer to go BSOD, just that I can't see the BSOD because my monitor black out. I have to wait for it to auto-restart and I will get a notification when I load Windows that my computer just recovered from a serious error. When I click "view details", it says my com just BSOD.

My rig got no mobo video-out. So can't swap the DVI. However, when I do hard-reset (open rig, take out mobo battery for 10 seconds), the blackout wont happen for like 2 months. So I have to hard-reset every 2 months for this. This makes me unsure it's mobo issue or card issue. Any advice?

 

[Sergio Ramos]

how old is your card? maybe time to reapply thermal paste?

Card is about 3 yrs now. The weird thing is that it's been always idling at 38ºc but all of a sudden it's idling at 52ºc now.

 

[crystalnox]

Did the fan die?

 

[Sergio Ramos]

Did the fan die?

Still spinning.

 

[Lethal]

just reapply thermal paste

 

[jtjt00]

This is a clear case of thermal paste dried out or fan spinning slow down.

Card is about 3 yrs now. The weird thing is that it's been always idling at 38ºc but all of a sudden it's idling at 52ºc now.

 

[ryuxdragonx]

If your warranty is already over, then I suggest you clean out the thermal paste and reapply it. Likely to be the thermal paste drying out, causing the excess heat and affect your performance.

 

[Sergio Ramos]

Should i just sent the card to corbell for for re-applying of the thermal paste?

 

[Artermiz]

No u can re-apply thermal paste yourself. it quite easy.

 

[Sergio Ramos]

I ran out of Artic MX2 thermal paste, so i used Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste. Will that be okay?



BTW is this amount enough?.

 

[crystalnox]

I ran out of Artic MX2 thermal paste, so i used Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste. Will that be okay?



BTW is this amount enough?.

How Thermal Compound Spreads - YouTube

 

[Sergio Ramos]

Oppss jialat, i think i applied too much. How long should i wait for it to cure?. My finger itchy to play games now.

 

[shadow84]

That amount is fine. U spread it evenly across the surface.

 

[clon22]

Should i just sent the card to corbell for for re-applying of the thermal paste?

Can always bring the card down for a check.