| Author |
Message |
Aaron
| | Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2004 - 12:56 am: | |
I am currently running a Asus A7N8X w/ Athlon 2100XP and a Geforce4 Ti4800 and having overheating trouble during intense gaming on any level of game option settings. Appears to be worse under heavy use of anisotropic filtering and antialiasing causing it lockup without the ability to leave the locked state. Had the problem before and upgraded to a better ventilated box and installed five extra fans correcting the problem for a short time. Looking for opinions on whether it would more likely be caused by the graphics card or motherboard setup. MB/CPU is about a year old, Graphics card is about six months old. The lockups seem to be more frequent among games that require heavy use of DirectX 9.0b. Computer is up to date with all drivers and am running XP Pro with NTFS file system. I am an experienced user needing experienced opinions and any ideas towards tweaking my setup to lessen this problem. Any help would be great thanx. |
Aaron
| | Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2004 - 1:05 am: | |
Just checked Nvidia's website and realized graphics driver not up to date. Just updated to 56.72. Could this be a possible fix??? |
Aaron
| | Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2004 - 1:22 am: | |
The new driver simply extended the amount of play time before the lockup and also made it run a little smoother otherwise I am still up s*** creek (starting to get irritated). |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2004 - 8:10 pm: | |
If it is heat related pop the cover off you PC and point a small desk fan at it. Itf it is stabile than you need to improve the cooling in your case. |
Aaron
| | Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2004 - 9:14 pm: | |
Determined it to be a heat issue after moving the case further away from a baseboard heater and removing the side cover on the old tower, this stopped the problem. After that I purchased a Powmax Black Demon gaming case which has 4 case fans on top of the original Geforce fan, CPU Fan, and Power Supply fan. There were no problems after that until about a week ago. Not sure what to do besides spend a hundred bucks on a liquid cooling kit or buy new hardware. |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 2, 2004 - 7:32 am: | |
Check the HS/Fan on your Ti4800 graphics card. They are notorious for going South in the North bound lane. |
