MSI Twin Frozr 3 overheating?

[NickM]

Last night my computer hard powered off (no Windows shutdown message) and kept doing it a few minutes after turning it back on.

I checked the temperatures and the only one that seemed excessive was the graphics card which was ~80C!
I opened the case and cleaned out the dust (of which there was a lot!) but when I powered it back on with the case open I noticed the rear fan on my graphics card (MSI TF3) was not spinning. Sometimes it tries to spin but struggles and stops after a few seconds.

Cleaning out the dust seemed to help for a bit (temps down to 65C and stable for a few hours) but this afternoon it started powering off again and temperatures hitting 103C!

So, is my graphics card dying? If so can anyone suggest a similar replacement that will be compatable with my system (motherboard is an MSI P67A GD65 B3 from 2011)?

Thanks!

 

[NickM]

No its the HD6950. It's been fine till now on Win 7.

 

[NickM]

I guess it's time for a new card then.
The AMD Radeon RX 580 looks like a reasonable replacement. Both my screens are DVI so ideally I'd like a card with dual DVI but it looks like most cards are DisplayPort / HDMI these days so I guess I'll need an adaptor.

 

[NickM]

To be fair its an 8 year old card so its had good use but this kind of thing is never nice.

Oh definitely, I think the heatwave last week may have finally finished it off!

 

[NickM]

At least tell me it went out playing Metro Exodus @4k in a blaze of glory and not minecraft @480p? Hahaha

It was a 480p film

I purchased a new GPU but when I tried to install it there was no video signal so I updated my BIOS to try and fix it. Unfortunately, even though it said it was successful, my system now won't even POST, its just power cycles until I unplug it. I'm guessing the BIOS is bricked, seems to be a common issue with this MSI motherboard .

Looks like I'm going to have to replace the motherboard, might as well use this as an opportunity to upgrade the motherboard & CPU.