Graphics Card Dramatically Overheating?

[Breaks]

Hello all.

Basically I have the X1950 Pro HIS Excalibur graphics card and for some reason lately it's been dramatically overheating to what it normally is temperature wise. Idle it reads (going by the ATi temp tool reader) it's 43C which is normal, yet when playing a game it climbs up to 60C and then bails to desktop with the VPU Recover error. Any idea why it's suddenly climbing? I checked the cooler and it seems to be clean of dirt / dust. How else can I keep the temps down on this card?

I always assumed that 60C under load wasn't amazingly high, why is it crashing out at this temperature? Is it a dangerous temp to hit while under load? Do you think it is the temperature making it crash to desktop when playing a game? It hasn't been doing this until the past few days.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as it's really starting to get on my nerves.

Best regards,

Breaks.

 

[AsusCoolUk]

60 degrees isnt high for the gpu, see my thread on the VRM's a few posts down(Sapphire X1950 Zalman vf900c Extra cooling?? ). Do you have the stock cooler? or have you replaced it with a zalman of some sorts?

My x1950pro idles at around 40 degrees and climbs to 55-60 when gaming. It used to overheat due to the vrms being xposed when I replaced the stock heatsink with a Zalman vf900c.

 

[Breaks]

Thanks for the reply.

No I haven't changed the cooler on it, I've been using the stock one ever since I purchased it. Is it possible that the stock cooler might have wiggled out of position? I would try to reseat it but I've never took a graphics card cooler apart before and wondered how difficult it would be to remove and put back on?

Breaks.

 

[WarBird]

you know gpu temps can go way higher than your cpu temps, aslong as they are like under 90oC i wouldn't be concerned....my gts hits about 70 under load

 

[Durzel]

Hello all.

Basically I have the X1950 Pro HIS Excalibur graphics card and for some reason lately it's been dramatically overheating to what it normally is temperature wise. Idle it reads (going by the ATi temp tool reader) it's 43C which is normal, yet when playing a game it climbs up to 60C and then bails to desktop with the VPU Recover error. Any idea why it's suddenly climbing? I checked the cooler and it seems to be clean of dirt / dust. How else can I keep the temps down on this card?

I always assumed that 60C under load wasn't amazingly high, why is it crashing out at this temperature? Is it a dangerous temp to hit while under load? Do you think it is the temperature making it crash to desktop when playing a game? It hasn't been doing this until the past few days.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as it's really starting to get on my nerves.

Best regards,

Breaks.

60C isn't that high, one of my cards (which is sandwiched between the other and a sound card) reads not much under that idle.

I don't have any problems with VPU recover though so maybe the problem is elsewhere for you...