gtx 480 lock up problems

[Sumoquirkey]

Hi all ,im having problems lately with my geforce gtx 480,things have been going great playing every game i chucked at it at max settings..but over the last couple months its locking up or going into power save mode on everything,even just browsing the net.I ve kept up with driver updates ,currently on 306.97,appart from drivers im not sure what else i can change ? its coming up 2 years ive had the system,was a package from Ocuk, its on an asus p6x58d-e ,6g ram,i7 950 cpu..i miss playing games as i havent since this has started ..but i see Planetside 2 is out in a month and want to be rdy to roll on that ) thanks in advance

quirkey

 

[J.D]

Hi Quirkey.

Is anything overclocked?.

Have you checked temperatures of the card whilst gaming?. If not, download MSI Afterburner and monitor your GPU temperature and report back your findings please.

 

[Sumoquirkey]

Nothings oc on the gtx 480 core at 700 mem 1848 temps whilst running ps2 beta went from 47 min upto 90,fan speed was down on 44% so put it on 100% ,thought air flow was good its in a antec 902 case !

 

[J.D]

Nothings oc on the gtx 480 core at 700 mem 1848 temps whilst running ps2 beta went from 47 min upto 90,fan speed was down on 44% so put it on 100% ,thought air flow was good its in a antec 902 case !

Remove the card and check for dust on the fan blades. Have a close look and see if you can see a build up of dust on the heatsink through the blades. You can either use compressed air to clear dust, or take apart the cooler, clean it and put it back together. I've done it a manually a couple of times throughout my time, it's pretty simple to do but at least check a video on how to remove it first or read something more descriptive.

If that doesn't sort it or isn't the problem (not dust on inspection) then it may need to have some new paste put on the GPU to help conductivity with the heatsink. I doubt it will be that but just something to think about if dust isn't the culprit.