i am having some big time stablitiy issues with my system. but first thing is first, how hot does my 6800GT have to be , to render my system frozen or w/e , reboot, etc. i dont know whats causing my system to reboot, im guessing a heat issue, and i dont know what sensor program to beleive. i have a thermal sensor attached to my xp-120, is that correct? i seen my gpu get up to 72C, reported by nTUNE monitor, and cpu is only getting as high as 38C, any suggestions?
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i am having some big time stablitiy issues with my system. but first thing is first, how hot does my 6800GT have to be , to render my system frozen or w/e , reboot, etc. i dont know whats causing my system to reboot, im guessing a heat issue, and i dont know what sensor program to beleive. i have a thermal sensor attached to my xp-120, is that correct? i seen my gpu get up to 72C, reported by nTUNE monitor, and cpu is only getting as high as 38C, any suggestions?
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Make sure everything is seated properly!
72 really shouldn’t cause any probs, unless you have the core shutdown settings at that point but I doubt it. You can always get better cooling but I can’t see what would be wrong.
yeah its not a big problem, but there is always room for improvement, better cooling or cleaning up cables would help, but thats not that bad of a ambient/load temperature, and for the 6800GT 72 is a bit high, try to maybe lower some settings lightly, or (im not recommending you to do this, this can endanger the GPU) you could put like arctic silver 5 on the chipset, which is somewhat risky, and I wouldn’t try it.
thx for the replies,
all of my components are seated correctly, and my bfg is oced a tiny bit, have a look at the screenie, for some reason i dont think its an issue, this problem is happening in half life 2. also, in the picture, core on the right has a red box, i dont know what that means, but im guessing, the voltage is incorrect, perhaps causing this instability?
