Nvidia 8600GTS overheating.

Naikon

Hi folks, playing any of my games under Linux recently has caused the card
to reach neraly 100 degrees celcius. 64 degrees c idle is not good, until the
machine reboots to prevent damage to the card.

This has not happened before, and I even went to the trouble of replacing
the thermal compound with artic silver, carefully removing the old residue.

Time to get a new card? I am starting to think so.
Any other solutions/advice on the matter will be appreciated.

PogMoThoin

Went looking for gpu coolers, couldn't believe the price of this one,
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=312475

I actually have one of these in copper on an 8800gt, great little cooler, completely silent also. Also, don't use arctic silver on a gpu, its conductive, better to use ceramique

100' isn't hot for a gpu, I've seen much higher. The newer Ati's idle in the 90's

Overheal

if its hot for a CPU its hot for a GPU. Sorry. Those circuits are limited in what they can safely soak up in terms of heat. CPUs cut out at 100c for good reasons.

If its something thats been creeping up on you OP it sounds like the card is failing. Its a recurring theme with the G8 series cards, unfortunately. Happened to laptops 18 months ago and back then experts predicted it was only time before desktop cards shows similar problems, being essentially the same chipsets, but with better cooling.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028703/nvidia-g84-g86-bad

and thats just when the news broke. the drama continued to unfold for a few weeks and the death toll rose.

http://gizmodo.com/5025792/nvidia-denies-imminent-epidemic-of-graphics-chip-combustion

http://gizmodo.com/5063105/defective-nvidia-graphics-cards-confirmed-in-desktops

http://gizmodo.com/5035980/inquirer-pretty-much-every-nvidia-geforce-8800-9600-and-9800-graphics-card-is-defective

Honestly I'd replace it with an ATI until the dust settles. Which could be another year or more

Naikon

Bollocks, just as I thought.
Thanks for the advice lads. Handy advice: )

I am still an Nvidia fanboy, despite these horrific failures of the G80 series.
Case has 12cm front and rear fans, so the card is receiving good airflow.

Overheal, I wasn't even aware of those articles :O
Might just go back to my old 7600GT for the moment.

I don't game very heavy these days, just indie stuff like World of Goo, id games
ect. It will have to tide me over until Nvidia sorts these problems out. 9600GT though....

Overheal

7600s i think are also culpable, but as long as you own one, might as well make it useful.

pwd

I have the ddr3 mobile version of that card.
It does get very hot and has caused the system to cut out a few times.
What I do then is turn down the graphics settings in the game I'm playing.
Then it no longer overheats.
Simple enough really.
Maybe these cards should just be underclocked.