Ok, this time I'm going nuts, here is the deal:
When I ran the card in the Abit mobo the memory got as hot as 90°Celcius yes you read that right, 90C! That's about 194°Farenheit for you Americans "over there"
I don't know the temp of the GPU because the thermometer just showed "HHH" this means that the temperature was higher than what it could record, which is 100°C!!!
Now what you must understand is that the card really was completely stable at this temperature, I didn't see a single visual artefact and 44h of stability tests should be enough to prove that the card really is stable now shouldn't it?
But anyway:
I put back the card in my Epox mobo and the problem all of a sudden got even worse, more visual artefacts in 2D than ever before.
So I thought I'll see what "some" extra cooling can do, (I did try with a 120mm fan blowing air across the card as one of my first attempts at fixing this problem a month or so ago but it didn't help then)
Though this time I went "a wee bit higher" with my cooling ideas...
5cm above the card: 80mm Delta fan blowing 60cfm of air
5cm below the card: 120mm Y.S. Tech blowing 120cfm of air!
and from the front side blowing across the card: 220v Pabst fan blowing ca 100cfm of air.
There is also the 120mm Pabst fan blowing about 60cfm of air on the radiator on my watercooler, and my Enermax PSU has double fans to...
As you probably can guess my comp sounded "quite a bit now" I could actually hear it outside of our house!!!
After 6h there where no visual artefacts or crashes, after 9h it had crashed to the desktop, this I believe was not a fault of the GFX card though, just my high tweaked computer signing of...
So what does all this mean? Do I have to buy a small windtunnel to get my GFX card working on my Epox mobo but on the Abit it just runs forever with no extra cooling?
..It sure seems so...
Per Hansson; going to bed with yet another question in his mind, (and the bad feeling of our Swedish test in school tomorrow...)
When I ran the card in the Abit mobo the memory got as hot as 90°Celcius yes you read that right, 90C! That's about 194°Farenheit for you Americans "over there"
I don't know the temp of the GPU because the thermometer just showed "HHH" this means that the temperature was higher than what it could record, which is 100°C!!!
Now what you must understand is that the card really was completely stable at this temperature, I didn't see a single visual artefact and 44h of stability tests should be enough to prove that the card really is stable now shouldn't it?
But anyway:
I put back the card in my Epox mobo and the problem all of a sudden got even worse, more visual artefacts in 2D than ever before.
So I thought I'll see what "some" extra cooling can do, (I did try with a 120mm fan blowing air across the card as one of my first attempts at fixing this problem a month or so ago but it didn't help then)
Though this time I went "a wee bit higher" with my cooling ideas...
5cm above the card: 80mm Delta fan blowing 60cfm of air
5cm below the card: 120mm Y.S. Tech blowing 120cfm of air!
and from the front side blowing across the card: 220v Pabst fan blowing ca 100cfm of air.
There is also the 120mm Pabst fan blowing about 60cfm of air on the radiator on my watercooler, and my Enermax PSU has double fans to...
As you probably can guess my comp sounded "quite a bit now" I could actually hear it outside of our house!!!
After 6h there where no visual artefacts or crashes, after 9h it had crashed to the desktop, this I believe was not a fault of the GFX card though, just my high tweaked computer signing of...
So what does all this mean? Do I have to buy a small windtunnel to get my GFX card working on my Epox mobo but on the Abit it just runs forever with no extra cooling?
..It sure seems so...
Per Hansson; going to bed with yet another question in his mind, (and the bad feeling of our Swedish test in school tomorrow...)