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4550 Overheating - Options ?

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I bought an ATI 4550 for my brothers HTPC case, and when i got it i found it was passively cooled. When playing a game for some time, the system will just completely shut down, and if i feel where the graphics card is, its pretty hot, and if i feel the large heatsink, its insanely hot (you couldnt touch it for more than a second).

The card idles around 55c, i havent measured yet how hot it gets while gaming, but im pretty sure its overheating. So im wondering what options i have to get those temperatures down. The case is cramped being a HTPC so i have nearly no room around the card. What would you guys recommend ?

This is the card (shown with a fan, which i think would have probably been better, but i got sent a passive one) -

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-186-SP

This is the one i got -

http://www.**********/Images/Products/901972-a.jpg
 
any chance you could hook up a fan inside the case to blow over the card ?

when u say no space around it, are cables tidied etc ?
 
No chance for a fan at all, the entire case is very specialized, like the hard drive is mounted in some sort of plastic cage, which has a fan attached beneath it which cools the proccesor and what not. The PCI-e slot is in the back right, right next to the hard drive, with barely a millimeter seperating them. I really think a fan mounted card would have been better, like this one -

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Might have to return it, as the picture shown shows it with a fan.
 
I have the same card in my HTPC, I had to put a little 40mm chipset fan at the back of the card blowing forwards, dropped my idle temps from 80-50 and load from 120-80 :S. TBH you should try loading the card, if it only gets upto 80 like mine does now its perfectly fine for one of these and the silence is no bad thing :)

Hawker
 
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