Possible overheating Problem, all help appreciated.

[Raelthorne]

Folks,

A colleague of mine bought a machine for audio production with the following spec:

Intel Core I7 2.66GHz with 120mm fan
Gigabyte UD3A,
3GB DDR3 1333MHz Corsair
320GB OS drive
500GB Audio drive
530W Seasonic PSU
HD3450 ATI dual ouput silent cooling
DVD R/RW
19" Rack case with acoustic insulation
Windows XP Home

He set it up as a dual boot machine with Windows 7 as well as XP. He's been getting a load of blue screens in W7 and the machine just freezes in XP.

Apparently the blue screen tells him that there's a problem with his ATI card. To add to this, he ran a check on his memory and one of the Dimms turned out to be completely knackered and was replaced. He told me that he's running a dual monitor setup on the 3450 (one by DVI, the other by VGA) @ 1280*1024 or 1024*768.

I personally think that the video card isn't up to running a dual monitor setup and the heat output from the card is causing problems or damaging the Ram (particularly given that the case is insulated). Can anyone offer an opinion on the information given?

Thanks for any and all opinions, advice or help

 

[Arcimbaldo]

Can he boot in long enough to view CCC to get the temperatures?
If it is overheating might want to invest in some decent fans?
Maybe try reapplying the past on the GPU?

 

[Tealc]

Those silent cards do run pretty hot and do require some case airflow. I had an AGP 3650 and it ran very hot to the touch especially when gaming. It's unlikely that it would overheat that quickly in a 2d environment though.

If you can install a Slow moving fan near the heatsink of the graphics card and have it circulate some air over it you can remove the overheating as a cause.

The i7 CPU also generates a lot of heat and this will needbto he exhausted efficiently. I'm not sure on how rackmount cases are set up for cooling but it doesn't sound an ideal situation for an i7.