i have just water cooler my pc including the gpu, howver when i try to play company of heroes or try to benchmark using 3dmark 03 the monitor goes into standby and the only way to fix it is to reboot. this did not happen when it was on air . does anyone know what is going on?
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problem with x1950pro
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You tried reseating the block.
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You tried the Air cooler back on, you may have borked it. 
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Your card must need to have a fan connected.
It's like is the card does not have the fan, it will think is broken, so will shutdown to avoid damage.
I know some water cooling system have a fan connector for the mobo and gpu, for feedback.
It's like is the card does not have the fan, it will think is broken, so will shutdown to avoid damage.
I know some water cooling system have a fan connector for the mobo and gpu, for feedback.
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How does one alleviate this, bridge the hot terminal (red) to the signal terminal (blue)?edgaruy1980 said:
going to try the air cooler tonight. The psu is the mae as before so i do not think it is a power issue. on the cpu cooler, it came with a 3 pin connector for an led which takes the place of the fan, i wonder if the same should not be on the gpu
soething to add to this is that my mobo bios resets when this happens and i have to set the time and boot sequence again
soething to add to this is that my mobo bios resets when this happens and i have to set the time and boot sequence again
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the vrm's need cooling aswell check this thread on the sapphire forums
http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/forums/showthread.php?t=8522&page=17&pp=10
http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/forums/showthread.php?t=8522&page=17&pp=10
RobertN said:
you're a star!
thanks for that, it turned out that it is an underlying problem with these cards and a really common problem. when i put it under water, what little airflow the vrms had went causing the problem, for now i have put the stock back on with some more compound on the vrms and it has worked fine
does anyone know where to get some aftermarket vrm coolers for for this card? I have an unused vga water block i cannot use until i can get hold of the heatsinks. Also i have some vga ram sinks here, will they work? they are bigger though and i am worried they might short something out by conecting the vrm to something else
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i know you are watercooling but any chance you canget a low rpm 120mm fan near the gfx for airflow that would be silent? but if your case has windows then it will look crap though lol
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are the vga ram sinks that much to big ???? can you hacksaw em down to size ?? bit bodgy but they only cheap and could be worth a go
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i guess its possibl. start the cut from the bottom though. it could be fiddley but i dont know what the sinks are made of if aluminium should be easish to cut. if you arnt using them and they are laying around maybe worth just trying one see how it turns out. how do vga ram sinks attach they stick on ?? or you use thermal paste ?