Overheating issue.

[NYAnomaly]

My current GPU is a Radeon X1900XTX, its been having problems recently when it use to run fine on the graphics settings of my games.

The computer usually runs at a steady 40C but recently anytime I'm playing a game such as Half-Life 2 or Fallout 3 the computer overheats, when it use to never do this with graphic setting on max.

I've recently updated its drivers, removed the dust from my tower, and gave my system a good cleaning when I was getting ready to run Fallout 3.

It overheats after a little while of playing, even though I had disabled the more stressful graphic options, its basically running on low graphic settings and is still overheating when this is suppose to be a decent GPU.

I was wondering if the PSU voltage was too high (GameXstream 700W PSU) and was causing my system to be unstable when playing games, but not sure if I would want to mess with voltages in my BIOS.

Is there anything I can do to fix this heating issue?

 

[Albuquerque]

Are you sure it's the video card overheating versus something else? Might be a dumb question, but reducing video settings doesn't only impact your video card.

 

[NYAnomaly]

I had added a new heatsink which fixed heating problems with the CPU, so it better not be that.

Thats why I was wondering if too much power running through the PSU could overheat my computer.

 

[NYAnomaly]

So I was talking with someone who had the exact same problem with his X1900XTX, I checked my GPU and sure enough there was dust hidden around the exhaust for the GPU fan, I picked it out and dusted the whole thing and put it back in, everything seems to work fine now.

But now my DVD RAM drive has ka-put on me...fix one problem end up with another, go figure. I need to find a new DVD RAM that isnt going to crap out on me so fast now.

 

[Florin]

Yeah you best be sure to keep that 1900 well dustfree, they get real hot. I had a regular one (X1900XT) die on me and I have another which doesn't work without a house fan pointing at it.