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HD5750 Overheat?

Skurlo

Skurlo

Skurlo

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I was playing a new install of crysis for the first time yesterday and I had everything bumped up to very high with AA off and it in 1280x720. It was fine for the first 20 mins, 30fps+ and no major glitches.

After these 20 mins of glory though my monitor goes black the computer stays on and my speakers make a horrific belching sound. So naturally I killed the computer in a panic and waited 5 to turn it on.

I plugged my monitor into my laptop to make sure it was ok and all systems were go then plugged it in to my desktop and turned it on. It came up with the windows 7 'Starting Windows' scene and I assumed all was good until suddenly my monitor cuts out and says 'No signal detected'

I have warranty on the card and they have fixed and replaced the problem for me today although I was wondering if anyone would know what caused this so I don't go and repeat again.

Thanks in advance.
 
The 5850 is low powered for its generation, but it still uses quite a lot of power - 86-100 watts, which more than a X800 XT PE, and about the same as a 3850, a top line card a few generations back!

Hard to say 100% if it's your PSU, it may be fine, but going by your last line are you saying the card was faulty after the black out?

The no monitor signal as you enter Windows can be from corrupt drivers or registry after the crash - happened to me after a crash and it was sending the wrong screen mode to the monitor. After uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, the monitor signal came back.
 
spirits247 said:
The 5850 is low powered for its generation, but it still uses quite a lot of power - 86-100 watts, which more than a X800 XT PE, and about the same as a 3850, a top line card a few generations back!

Hard to say 100% if it's your PSU, it may be fine, but going by your last line are you saying the card was faulty after the black out?

The no monitor signal as you enter Windows can be from corrupt drivers or registry after the crash - happened to me after a crash and it was sending the wrong screen mode to the monitor. After uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, the monitor signal came back.
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This is what I thought, I rebooted in safe mode and downloaded the latest drivers which I then attempted to install until it said something like 'cannot obtain detection settings.' at this I got the warranty to sort it out.

Im not 100% sure if the card was faulty either. It may have been fine. all fans were spinning good to go but Im not sure what the problem was which Is why im asking here :)
 
spirits247 said:
The 5850 is low powered for its generation, but it still uses quite a lot of power - 86-100 watts, which more than a X800 XT PE, and about the same as a 3850, a top line card a few generations back!
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op said 5750 :)

Dont CWT actually make the Coraisr units?
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yes, CWT do design and manufature some of the corsair units. CWT isnt a budget brand at all, though they do have their good and bad products like everybody else.


Op, can you clarify - is it a 5750 or a 5850?
 
james.miller said:
op said 5750 :)



yes, CWT do design and manufature some of the corsair units. CWT isnt a budget brand at all, though they do have their good and bad products like everybody else.


Op, can you clarify - is it a 5750 or a 5850?
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Well you learn new stuff everyday as they say.

Don't Seasonic design/make other units as well for Corsair and Antec?
 
Well Skurlo, I don't know what to suggest. The only thing that can kill a none defective card is a bad PSU or a dodgy motherboard PCI-E socket, but that's all we can do, guess. It's very unlikely to be the motherboard. No other componet would kill a card.

All you can do is either play Crysis again and see what happens - perhaps your last card was just bad and waiting to go - or guess it may be the PSU and replace that.

Many people have had PC problems and it can be a pain tracking them down. Just recently someone discovered their surge protector was killing their PC! Took them many replacements and RMA'ing components before tracking it down!
 
Well, thankyou very much all of you guys. Ocuk really has the best community :) I hope I find out and maybe it was just a one off, but I really cannot thank you guys more :)

to be perfectly honest chances are it isnt going to happen again so Im happy.
 
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Have to say the generic 450W PSU is probably the prime suspect. If the energy efficiency is as poor as 50-60%, then the PSU would only be able to produce 225W-270W for the PC...
 
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