is my 9800pro going to die ?

i just played MOHAA for 15min and then the PC freezed and the monitor went black i felt, that the memory was very hot, i´m using copper ram freezer, but i couldn´t touch them longer then 1 sec.

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i just played MOHAA for 15min and then the PC freezed and the monitor went black

i felt, that the memory was very hot, i´m using copper ram "freezer", but i couldn´t touch them longer then 1 sec.....hot

i´m talking about the 9800pro.....

so, it´s summer and room temp about 25°C


is it normal ?
my card is running almost 24/7

is it time to go for my Grapic card or only to warm in my room?
i wonder, because last summer there has been no probs with my PC

so, i don´t know how hot the ram normaly is in gaming, maybe i´ll test it later the day


maybe someone useing this nice old card also, can tell me, if his ram is also hot in gaming that u can touch it no more than 1 sec?!


please tell me good news
i won´t let my nice baby go :-(

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cards ram does get hot thats normal
mine got very hot, too and passive heatsinks do help very few here
I would observe the thing a bit longer before concluding ....

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ok, i know that these are going hot, but i wonder why the screen went black and pc freezes
that´s the point

maybe it was a "onehit-wonder"?
:hmm:

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Wouldnt mind too much about it unless it starts becoming a habit.

My computer sometimes crashes too, or even a blue screen etc. But as long as its only once a month or less its OK I guess.

If it does it again, try underclocking your graphic cards memory.

Anyway, yes, computers tend to crash more often at high ambient temperatures. I have to downclock my overlclocked CPU from 3.2 GHz to 3.1 GHz in the summer.

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hum...
but i overclocked nothing in my pc
and downclocking ? :knife:

ok, i´ll see if it´s happening again
if not, ok
if yes....

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doesnt matter if overclocked or not.

if you underclock it and it stops crashing, you will know that your memory is getting too hot.

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i got old fx5200 on this internet pc, dont need any extra power so i underclock it always to 166/100 (default: 250/200) (overclocked without artifact+stable: 370/300)

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already tried nibitor, but cant change anything there.. seems to be only for newer cards, (but x-bios works) and the 2nd problem is whenever I save my bios to file, nibitor & x-bios editor reports wrong filesize
....I dont want to mess with corrupt ROM file :hmm: