Soldato
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My PC just bluescreened for the first time in a long long time, since installing Win 7 I believe.
This led me to check things like temperatures and one that stuck out like a sore thumb was my GPU temperature of 40 degree idle, 9 degrees warmer than normal, and when I ran Furmark it quickly shot up to over 75 degrees, which is very high considering it's at stock clocks with a Zalman VF3000-A, which happily kept it at 60ish underload when overclocked.
I've heard that poor voltage/voltage fluctuations can cause this so I checked my 12v line and according to a software reading it fluctuates between 11.921v and 11.98v, is that too much of a fluctuation? Could that be the cause of high GFX core temps? Should I be looking at getting a new PSU? Could it be the cause of my BSOD?
The system specs,
i7 920 D0 @ 3.6ghz
ATI 5850 @ stock
6gb OCZ 1600mhz Tri Channel
Tagan 580Watt 2Force PSU.
Thanks,
Jonny
This led me to check things like temperatures and one that stuck out like a sore thumb was my GPU temperature of 40 degree idle, 9 degrees warmer than normal, and when I ran Furmark it quickly shot up to over 75 degrees, which is very high considering it's at stock clocks with a Zalman VF3000-A, which happily kept it at 60ish underload when overclocked.
I've heard that poor voltage/voltage fluctuations can cause this so I checked my 12v line and according to a software reading it fluctuates between 11.921v and 11.98v, is that too much of a fluctuation? Could that be the cause of high GFX core temps? Should I be looking at getting a new PSU? Could it be the cause of my BSOD?
The system specs,
i7 920 D0 @ 3.6ghz
ATI 5850 @ stock
6gb OCZ 1600mhz Tri Channel
Tagan 580Watt 2Force PSU.
Thanks,
Jonny