X1900 XT 512mb card -is it overheating??

[AdzBluenose]

Hi all! First Post ! whooo!

I recently purchased a Radeon X1900 XT GFX Card along with a couple of graphics intensive games which were Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Tom Clancys Rainbow 6 Vegas.

I Have found that i am unable to play GRAW in fullscreen as i can hear the card \"beeping\" when i do at which point i see a set of vertical lines flicker onscreen and if i dont quit the game to let the card recover 5 more minutes and poof! system locks up.

I have got around this problem thus far by being able to play GRAW in windowed mode howerever i did not pay all this money for the card to play in a less that satisfactory windowed mode.

Rainbow 6 Vegas didnt seem to have these problems until now hence why i decided to post all of this in the hope someone has experienced the same and can tell where this little lost sheep to go....althogh i must add compared to GRAW, R6V is alot less temperamental and only started beeping after around 45mins of solid play.GRAW starts after only a few mins.

Is this a temperature overheat problem or something else? Is it worth me buying an artic ice x2 GPU cooler thingymebob? or even do i need to go even more extreme and get a water cooler kit.

Any suggestions and help welcome as ive hit a brick wall with it for now....

Many Thanx Adam.

Ps My system Specs:

2.2ghz AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Processor
2.00GB RAM
Ati Radeon x1900XT 512mb PCI-E GFX Card
2 x Sata Hard drives - 180gb each
500w PSU

Anything else i think is irrelavent.Thanks Again for any help!

[Anonymous]

I would say maybe theres not enough power to the gfx, have you got a sufficient branded psu? Otherwise use the program atitool and check temperatures and tell us what windowed GRAW and fullscreen TC temps are.

[mac124]

What temperature is it getting too?

Download and install ATITOOL this will tell you the temperature of the card, it also has a little stress test so you can easily tell what the temp gets upto.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/436/mirrors.php

These things do run hot and unless you have a serious air flow problem in your case i very much doubt it is heat, could be power though as mentioned though.

[nft99]

think the advice so far should help you try and fix the problem

The other post have been deleted to try and keep things tidy :wink:

[Anonymous]

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[Hosser]

Even if heat is not your issue, I highly recommend the Accelero X2 cooler. It's entirely silent, and cools extremely well. And it's like £20. Total no-brainer.

[Mattbot2]

yeh its fine for running... linux [sarcasm] :shock: [/sarcasm]

[AdzBluenose]

Thanx for all your help so far.

using the ati tool i ran the 3d image thingy which topped my gpu temp to 117 deg c!!

Also the amps it pulled topped 31.7A is this high or normal?

I noticed the card began to beep every 5-10 seconds after the temp went passed 105 deg c.

Furthur more i ran an artefacts checker which really scared me - all was fine for about 2 mins then all of a sudden the image it shows went mad and just changed to yello then when i aborted the test the image reappeared with all lines of red blue and green dots runing vertically down the image - the same dots appeared then over my entire desktop and made every image garbled.Temps and Amps were the same as the above mentioned.

Help!!!
Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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[Mattbot2]

lol, or instead of what he said, you can just leave a cup of cold tea ontop of your graphics card then play flight simulator on high and you'll have a boiling cup of tea within 5 mins!

[Anonymous]

Is there no cooling in your case? Get a new cooler, mount and you should see some normal results. Whats idle?

[mac124]

Amps is probably about right (been a while since i had my 1900xtx so not 100% on that.

The temperature is NOT right and is WAY too hot. 2 choices remove heatsink and reapply some new thermal past refit stock heatsink OR fit a different heatsink.

Might be worth trying the same test with side panel off to see if its just and airflow issue.

[Himesh]

117 C!! The highest ive seen something run at was my mates processor which was running fine at 80 C!!

[Anonymous]

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[Himesh]