Hiya
I currently have a nVidia Geforce 8600 GT card in my computer but in the last couple weeks I have been having a lot of overheating problems with it. I have cleaned it out as best as I can aswell as removing as much dust from the fan as I can get too. I noticed before I cleaned it out the fan didnt move at all, when in games the temperature of the card would rise anwhere in the region of 115oC and more sometimes.
Since cleaning the fan works now and then but I think it's time to replace the card before it does serious damage to my motherboard. The only thing is I have a very limited budget with which to replace the card, about £60 max. I am not looking for a serious card just something with the sort of specs similar to the 8600 GT.
After have a look around on the net I'm a little confused as too which would be a good replacement, I tried to see if I could just replace the card with another 8600GT but can't find a suitable or reliable place to get one (even on Ebay).
So I thought if I listed my PC specs here someone could recommend a suitable replacement.
Motherboard: - MSI MS-7369 1.0
Chipset : - NVIDIA nForce 560 A3
BIOS: - AMI v2.9
Graphic Interface: - PCI-Express x16
CPU: - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2 (940)) Core Speed 2.487.44MHz
RAM: - 1x 2048MB DDR2
GPU: - nVidia Geforce 8600 GT 512MB
Power Supply: - ATX 650L
Max Ouput: - 650W
+12v1: - 23A Max
+12v2: - 23A Max
+5v: - 40A Max
+3.3v: - 30A Max
-12v: - 0.8A Max
+5v/SB: - 3.0A Max
Not sure if I needed to list all that info, but just put it there in case.
The graphics cards I have had a look at getting are ATI Radeon HD 5670 or Geforce GT 430, but maybe there would be better, can anyone help me please?
I currently have a nVidia Geforce 8600 GT card in my computer but in the last couple weeks I have been having a lot of overheating problems with it. I have cleaned it out as best as I can aswell as removing as much dust from the fan as I can get too. I noticed before I cleaned it out the fan didnt move at all, when in games the temperature of the card would rise anwhere in the region of 115oC and more sometimes.
Since cleaning the fan works now and then but I think it's time to replace the card before it does serious damage to my motherboard. The only thing is I have a very limited budget with which to replace the card, about £60 max. I am not looking for a serious card just something with the sort of specs similar to the 8600 GT.
After have a look around on the net I'm a little confused as too which would be a good replacement, I tried to see if I could just replace the card with another 8600GT but can't find a suitable or reliable place to get one (even on Ebay).
So I thought if I listed my PC specs here someone could recommend a suitable replacement.
Motherboard: - MSI MS-7369 1.0
Chipset : - NVIDIA nForce 560 A3
BIOS: - AMI v2.9
Graphic Interface: - PCI-Express x16
CPU: - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2 (940)) Core Speed 2.487.44MHz
RAM: - 1x 2048MB DDR2
GPU: - nVidia Geforce 8600 GT 512MB
Power Supply: - ATX 650L
Max Ouput: - 650W
+12v1: - 23A Max
+12v2: - 23A Max
+5v: - 40A Max
+3.3v: - 30A Max
-12v: - 0.8A Max
+5v/SB: - 3.0A Max
Not sure if I needed to list all that info, but just put it there in case.
The graphics cards I have had a look at getting are ATI Radeon HD 5670 or Geforce GT 430, but maybe there would be better, can anyone help me please?
