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Cooling

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

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Since it's been warm for summer my graphics card has started showing faint lines across the screen, so i'm wondering if it's worth getting a slot cooler, or maybe ghetto modding a 120mm fan under it, or even getting a proper cooler for it?

I'll be upgrading it eventually (not sure when) to a 7850, so I don't want to spend too much.
 
The EVGA one, I do live in the UK! We've been having 20c plus temps for the past two days :D

I don't have a side fan on, just got the front intake, back and top exhausting. Temp wise the card hasn't gone over 85c, but usually after an hour of gaming the lines start.
 
Not fussed about noise, since I have my Sennheiser 201's on.

I'm not sure it has truly overheated, wouldn't it have bluescreened or shutdown mid game?

Or are the lines across the screen the sort of warning that it'll overheat and die?
 
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