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I have recently experienced problems with my video card(256mb gforce), when I play wc3 or silkroad it runs slowly from time to time...I had these problems last summer but changed the video card and it was ok till now... Any guesses what can cause it? Could it b the cooling system since i had not any problems in winter and now its summer(dont flame if thats stupid)... Or that I dont turn off my pc, only the monitor...Should I buy an extra fan or new video? Would the new video run better?
Hope there are pc experts here, help apreciated :wink:

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Other things could be causing Wc3 to run slow, cpu being one of them. First off more than likely you have your pc bogged down with shit, and or viruses. So check that first, secondly download speedfan and gpu-z

Speedfan:
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
GPU-Z
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

This should give an idea of your temps, since you gave basically no system specifications i can't really say a average temperature for your hardware because each model of hardware most likely has different temperatures, but i can give mine as a referance, keep in mind im idle (not playing games/doing system intense things)

intel e4500 2.2ghz processor
radeon x1650 video card
1x 120mm fan
1x 80mm side fan

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I can probably help you further if you post your system specifications, but this will fix your issue of your temperature worries :)
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Ty for help but...
Im kinda worried now :oops:

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Its time to get more cooling.
This is what I did previous summer.
It was very effective =)
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fckerr wrote:Ty for help but...
Im kinda worried now :oops:

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Your gpu is going to die at those temperatures, max temp on mine is 90c lol. i wouldnt be surprised if your gpu fan is shut off/broken. take to shop and get new one/fix it yourself if you know how.

Edit: max temp on your card is 90c, its probably throttling itself to try and cool down, causing your slowness. But get that fixed asap or your going to have a broken pc

Edit2: On GPU-Z your fan speed is 0%, its shut off, nowonder its overheating, its either shut off or dead, 2nd is most likely :shock:
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if it has a fan, put it at 100% with riva tuner. If not then you probably should get a newer one.

I don't think it has one cuz like the above post says 0% fan.
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MiKe 51-50 wrote:if it has a fan, put it at 100% with riva tuner. If not then you probably should get a newer one.

I don't think it has one cuz like the above post says 0% fan.


All video cards come with fans now, they are too powerful and will overheat without one, last cards to not have fans were the nvidia 5000 series,
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I had those problems, im fixing it buying a new brand comp. (This one is old tho)

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tjendc21 wrote:Its time to get more cooling.
This is what I did previous summer.
It was very effective =)


Rofl nice, my old GPU was getting to 120c under load so I put my case on its side and stuck a huge 26" fan on top of it
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zShared wrote:
tjendc21 wrote:Its time to get more cooling.
This is what I did previous summer.
It was very effective =)


Rofl nice, my old GPU was getting to 120c under load so I put my case on its side and stuck a huge 26" fan on top of it

I'm now using my old comp again and the fans to ^^
Going to try that to, what you said, I wanna see how much it cools =D

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sting13 wrote:
MiKe 51-50 wrote:if it has a fan, put it at 100% with riva tuner. If not then you probably should get a newer one.

I don't think it has one cuz like the above post says 0% fan.


All video cards come with fans now, they are too powerful and will overheat without one, last cards to not have fans were the nvidia 5000 series,

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I fixed it. Now the tempreture can hardly pass 65%.

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just a quick question before thread dies

my pc when i turn it on and run somthing hardocre it is constantly makign a loud VOOOOOOOOM!
i dont know how to fix it and somtimes it realy pi**es me of lol pleas help
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