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gtx560ti overheating

sean6919

sean6919

sean6919

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Hi guys,
my friends graphics card has started to overheat and the problem has persisted for around three days. Any suggestions that you have for this would be appreciated.
Thank you.
 
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Take it out, clean it? check to see if dust is clogged in the cooler rad and any other ares. Make sure the fans spinning correctly.
 
Thank you for the quick reply but even after cleaning the card multiple times it is still overheating. Is there anyway that it could be a driver issue?
 
I haven't been told the exact temperature because he doesn't know himself. All I have been told is that when his game crashes, the graphics card is extremely hot. The game usually crashes after about half an hour. He plays at medium or high setting depending on the game.
 
It's normal for cards to get very hot, doesn't mean it is temperature related. Tell him to download msi afterburner and run it while playing a game, it will log his temperature. Anything up to around 80 degrees is fine when gaming.

What happens when the game crashes? It could be driver related, cpu temperature related, or overclock related if he has overclocked his cpu or graphics card.
 
When the game crashes he receives a message saying that he can search for an online solution or just close the game.
 
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by any chance is the game Battlefield 3? i had similar problems and had to change the clock settings of my card and this sorted the issues out for me
Core Voltage 1012
Core Clock 822
Shader Clock 1644
Memory Clock 2104
MSI Afterburner is for clocking if ou haven't got the program its free too.
 
Thank you for posting but the game isn't battlefield. He mainly plays civilisation 5 at the minute. He has also experienced this problem on medieval total war.
 
can afterburner record results or does it only show the temps as they happen? I only ask this because he only seems to play fullscreen and only has a single monitor.
 
You only have to minimized the game and take a look at afterburner to see the temps. It does state the max temp reached above the graph anyway.
 
My 560ti loves to get toasty, such a shame, I end up leaving games when I see it hit 85c.
 
thank you for the replies but from what I can tell the problem has fixed itself. He hasn't told me of any more crashes. The only thing that he did to fix it was cleaning it. Maybe that was what it needed. He hasn't had it for that long though so I found it quite surprising that it would need a clean out after only a few months.
Thanks again guys.
 
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