So my pc overheated.... (damn skyrim!!)

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Saturday in Cape Town was a scorcher... it was ridiculous! :wtf:

It's the first HOT day I have had my 6950. I have one of these

Been playing Skyrim since it came out, with no issues. Then Sat I get some blocky graphics after playing for about an hour... Then my whole screen goes grey. Touched the back of the card and damn it was HOT

Been running the fan at 55%, bumped it to 60%.

thinking I might pop a aftermarket cooler on, any ideas?? good idea?
 
If your case has space for more fans you may want to try that first.

You could have the most efficient cooler on the card but if the case is not getting enough fresh air in, hot air out it will not matter.

Edit: I also have the 6950, a Sapphire though. I stay in CT as well and had no problems on Saturday.
 
That cooler is already better than stock, the issue could be with your case air flow
 
I have one of these cases

1 x 120mm at the front (outside --> inside) (might actually be a 140mm not sure)
2 x 120mm at the top (inside --> outside)
2 x 120mm at the rear (outside --> inside) these blow over my radiator

thats a lot of movement of air...

Maybe I should install one of these

:eek:
 
Use the ASUS SmartCooling software that came bundled with the card and tweak the GPU fan speed to be at it's fastest when the GPU hits 50 degrees or higher.
Yes, it will make a bit of a noise, but it will help plenty with heat issues.

And like fonoi said, case fans for more ventilation into, and out of the case.
 
Since you already have water cooling just get this

In seriousness, those rear fans are probably not bringing enough air in. I assume the rad is mounted externally? If so, I'd suggest one 120mm fan at the bottom of the case, to give a little more fresg air at the bottom for the GPU. Tweaking the fan profile is also going to help a lot. Set it so that above 80°C it increases fan speed drastically. So most of the time it will still be reasonably quiet, but when needed it gets its ass into gear :)
 
techead said:
I have one of these cases

1 x 120mm at the front (outside --> inside) (might actually be a 140mm not sure)
2 x 120mm at the top (inside --> outside)
2 x 120mm at the rear (outside --> inside) these blow over my radiator

thats a lot of movement of air...

Maybe I should install one of these

:eek:
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The only thing I would change is change your two rear fans to exhaust and your front to intake.

Edit : Noticed the radiator, not sure then. But generally speaking the airflow should come from the front and bottom and exhaust out back and top.
 
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fonoi said:
The only thing I would change is change your two rear fans to exhaust and your front to intake.

Edit : Noticed the radiator, not sure then. But generally speaking the airflow should come from the front and bottom and exhaust out back and top.
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You need to do the reverse with watercooling, air needs to flow over the radiator, the assumption is that outside air is cooler than inside air, which with all the hardware we toss in our machines that's a very fair assessment.
I had to completely rearrange my cooling when i went hydro, best choice i ever made though.

@techhead, what fans are they, stocks that come with the case or proper once like tricools or sickleflows. When i went hydro i swapped all my fans for sickleflows 2000rpm @ 19dbi with 73 cfm i think, all the power and none of the noise. I have a CM Storm Scout, that small case with 3 sickle flows and the fan shipped with my hydro and its the cheap GTX560ti from club3d the cooling is crap but im still hassle free and was playing skyrim all day Saturday even during the peak of 37 degrees.
 
my radiator is mounted internally. so,

case-fan-rad-fan

---> ---> --->

air outside 90% of the time cooler than inside, so obviously I bring that air over the rad

I have a Corsair H50 which is a closed circuit so I cant add a GPU block :confused:
 
CranialBlaze said:
You need to do the reverse with watercooling, air needs to flow over the radiator, the assumption is that outside air is cooler than inside air, which with all the hardware we toss in our machines that's a very fair assessment.
I had to completely rearrange my cooling when i went hydro, best choice i ever made though.

@techhead, what fans are they, stocks that come with the case or proper once like tricools or sickleflows. When i went hydro i swapped all my fans for sickleflows 2000rpm @ 19dbi with 73 cfm i think, all the power and none of the noise. I have a CM Storm Scout, that small case with 3 sickle flows and the fan shipped with my hydro and its the cheap GTX560ti from club3d the cooling is crap but im still hassle free and was playing skyrim all day Saturday even during the peak of 37 degrees.
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I have a meeting now, will respond when I get back....
 
Oh, I saw two fans and assumed you had a proper loop :p
Just up the fan profile, install a fan at the bottom then
 
The stock fans on that case is quite slow (1200RPM mostly).

I suggest getting higher speed fans and pluggin them into the motherboard. The Cooler master Turbine master fans are quite good.

http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6691

Most motherboards are able to vary the fan speed according to the temperatures. That way they can run @ 1200RPM when Idle and speed up to 1600-2000RPM when hot.
 
firstly aftermarket cooling = warranty gone.

you do have decent cooler all ready on it, i would leave it on autofan and let it adjust it by the heat , and if there is some extra spots for fans fill it up with sickleflows, side panels fans help allot but make that stupid zooming noise!!
 
The best solution would be an air-con in the room (even if just one of those portable R3K jobbies).

These things are not made for our climate.
 
CranialBlaze said:
I have 3 myself so i can testify to the lack of noise. Its the fan of choice of myself and all my geeky friends because of its performance/noise ratio.
Probably got something to do with the very curved 9 blades.
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Trust me when I say this - there is no way that fans running at 2000rpm are only putting out 19dba. Its just isnt. Subjectively you may think its quiet, but its not. It really is not. Especially not cheap sleeve bearing fans.

Scythe GTs are arguably the best fans out there right now, and they are much more realistic, with a 1850rpm fan running at 28dba. I dont have access to youtube at work, but I'll find links later to prove how bad sickleflows really are.
 
I can testify that those CM Sickleflow fans are noisy at 2000rpm!
For that reason, I ran mine at 7V, instead of the usual 12V.

I found that my Asus HD6970 DirectCU II was running quite hot on the default fan settings, because the fan speed never went like above 20%, even when the card was running at 70'C. I then just manually set up a fan profile to gradually increase the fan speed as the temperature increases, so that it would hit like 60% fan speed at 60'C.

The Asus SmartDoctor is a piece of junk software.
 
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