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obsidian I'm the dude! Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 12498	Posted: 10-02-2010 05:32 PM                  My nVidia GTX 280 is overheating when running games. I noticed it after I recently updated the latest stable forceware drivers (258.96) so I think that may be the issue. I reverted back to the previous version (197.45, I think) but that still causes the overheating, I suppose perhaps because it may not be completely reverted. I tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling but that doesn't help. I haven't tried a full OS reinstall, I'm a little reluctant to do that since it's a lot of work. I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the latest forceware drivers causing more heat to your system than before. I think it's unlikely to be hardware related, I did clean it out with some compressed air and it seems as if I only had problems since updating, but hardware problems might still be an possibility. I'm open to any suggestions. _________________ GtkRadiant | Q3Map2 | Shader Manual
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SoM Your Other Daddy Joined: 03 Dec 1999 Posts: 20012	Posted: 10-02-2010 06:06 PM                  i'm using 258.96 drv with a EVGA GT 220GT 1 GIG, check your thermal paste. _________________ [WYD]SoM Last edited by SoM on 10-03-2010 09:03 PM, edited 1 time in total.
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Scourge Pestilence Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Posts: 15822	Posted: 10-02-2010 06:40 PM                  No problems with my GTX 260 on the latest drivers so far. Of course I normally bump up my fan to around 75 to 80%.
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AmIdYfReAk Elite Joined: 10 Feb 2000 Posts: 28023	Posted: 10-02-2010 06:55 PM                  i would manually set the fan speed on it, After removing it from the case and blowing it out.
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Foo Timed Out Joined: 02 Aug 2000 Posts: 38064	Posted: 10-02-2010 08:03 PM                    obsidian wrote: an possibility
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^Ghost Mercenary Joined: 07 Sep 2009 Posts: 230	Posted: 10-03-2010 08:23 AM                  ive had problems with my gtx 275, in some games like cod4 modern warfare, temperature would immediately rise to +80 degrees Celsius, after about 5 minutes of gameplay. from what i read on most forums, its mostly a hardware issue; ie: small cases, fans etc.. i fixed my issue to have 4 of 6 fans going in while the other 2 go out, and have my gfx fan run at 50%. _________________ NRC Defrag Q3 Map Archive
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Captain Legend Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 16498	Posted: 10-03-2010 01:45 PM                  I was running an overclocked GTX275 with stock cooling in a mid-ATX case and never had temp issues.
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obsidian I'm the dude! Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 12498	Posted: 10-03-2010 06:32 PM                  I've previously ran games like Crysis for hours on end without problems. It would heat up a lot as expected, but I never had actual problems. Now when playing games like L4D2 (not especially graphics intensive), my screen will go all wacky and computer will freeze up forcing a hard reboot. Currently, it will do okay if I have the fan ramped up to something much higher than what I had to do before. I think I'm going to take it apart this week and see if there is a giant dust bunny or a heatsink delaminating that is causing physical problems. Hopefully it's not actually damaged hardware, though I think BFG has lifetime warranties. _________________ GtkRadiant | Q3Map2 | Shader Manual
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AmIdYfReAk Elite Joined: 10 Feb 2000 Posts: 28023	Posted: 10-03-2010 08:58 PM                  BFG is no longer.... Good luck with that RMA
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SoM Your Other Daddy Joined: 03 Dec 1999 Posts: 20012	Posted: 10-03-2010 09:02 PM                  aye, they stopped doing that like almost a year ago or more ? _________________ [WYD]SoM
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