Mysterious increase in temperature

Nebzor · 28 Jun 2007 at 09:01

Until about an hour ago, my graphics card was hitting 61* under load. Now it can top up to 77, even with stock speeds. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Edit: Whoops, wrong section. Still is related to cooling though

Alex UK · 28 Jun 2007 at 09:27

Is there anything blocking any of the fans?

Nebzor · 28 Jun 2007 at 09:37

Nope, all the fans are fine. Including the one on the graphics card itself.

The card is idling at 49 degrees.

gt_junkie · 28 Jun 2007 at 09:52

Is the cooler on the X2 blowing over the graphics card?

gt

Nebzor · 28 Jun 2007 at 10:07

No, the graphics card components are on the other side of the PCB to the CPU cooler.

Mansize_tissue · 28 Jun 2007 at 11:14

Did you change the drivers? It could be that they're just reporting the temperature incorrectly if so.

SteveOBHave · 28 Jun 2007 at 16:00

Whip it out of your PC and then blow back through the cooler blower and see if any dust comes out.

Chris Beard · 28 Jun 2007 at 16:15

Maybe a bit of dust was covering the thermometer that's not been removed by the fan...

dun · 28 Jun 2007 at 16:59

SteveOBHave said:
Whip it out of your PC and then blow back through the cooler blower and see if any dust comes out.

Yep, and you haven't put the heating on or something have you? It sounds daft but bit odd to explain if you have checked the normal problems inside the computer itself.
Check for dust
Check the fan is at 100% or whatever it is usually
Check the fan is free spinning and not being hindered by a cable or other random crap.
Check the ambient temperature
Check the motherboard and cpu temps see if they have risen.

Nebzor · 29 Jun 2007 at 00:05

dun said:
Yep, and you haven't put the heating on or something have you? It sounds daft but bit odd to explain if you have checked the normal problems inside the computer itself.
Check for dust
Check the fan is at 100% or whatever it is usually
Check the fan is free spinning and not being hindered by a cable or other random crap.
Check the ambient temperature
Check the motherboard and cpu temps see if they have risen.

Nope, temperature in room is still 21 degrees.
Checking in a second

It was originally only at 35%, since moved it up to 100% to no avail.
Not being hindered, that was the first thing I checked.
Ambient temperature is fine.
They've not risen.

NB has been feeling a bit hot lately.. how hot should it be?