Hi Guys,
My power supply recently died after about 18 months of use, so I upgraded from 350W to a 500W unit. Since a couple of weeks after installing the new PSU my machine has been getting hella hot, and performing poorly as a result. Now, my new PSU fan blows downwards, as opposed to straight out the back of the base unit like my old one. However the fan is really bloody big and not generating much heat iself, so I'm surprised if this is causing the whole issue.
From feeling around, the hot areas seem to be the socket in the back of the PSU where I plug in the kettle cable, and the GFX card. Checked the temps too and indeed the graphics card is burning up somewhat.
So it looks like the graphics card is definitely the problem, but I don't see why my new PSU would be causing this. Any ideas?
Details below:
CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267)
Motherboard Name Asus P5N-E SLI (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
System Memory 4Gb
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (768 MB)
Motherboard 49 °C (120 °F)
CPU 49 °C (120 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 52 °C (126 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 50 °C (122 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 48 °C (118 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 47 °C (117 °F)
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GPU 73 °C (163 °F) These are temps after 5 minutes of gaming, all are around 50-60°C not gaming
GPU Diode 83 °C (181 °F)
GPU Memory 73 °C (163 °F)
GPU Ambient 63 °C (145 °F)
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Cooling Fans
CPU 1805 RPM
Chassis 1607 RPM
Chassis #2 2177 RPM
GPU 1596 RPM (60%)
Many thanks for any advice
p.
My power supply recently died after about 18 months of use, so I upgraded from 350W to a 500W unit. Since a couple of weeks after installing the new PSU my machine has been getting hella hot, and performing poorly as a result. Now, my new PSU fan blows downwards, as opposed to straight out the back of the base unit like my old one. However the fan is really bloody big and not generating much heat iself, so I'm surprised if this is causing the whole issue.
From feeling around, the hot areas seem to be the socket in the back of the PSU where I plug in the kettle cable, and the GFX card. Checked the temps too and indeed the graphics card is burning up somewhat.
So it looks like the graphics card is definitely the problem, but I don't see why my new PSU would be causing this. Any ideas?
Details below:
CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267)
Motherboard Name Asus P5N-E SLI (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
System Memory 4Gb
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (768 MB)
Motherboard 49 °C (120 °F)
CPU 49 °C (120 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 52 °C (126 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 50 °C (122 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 48 °C (118 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 47 °C (117 °F)
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GPU 73 °C (163 °F) These are temps after 5 minutes of gaming, all are around 50-60°C not gaming
GPU Diode 83 °C (181 °F)
GPU Memory 73 °C (163 °F)
GPU Ambient 63 °C (145 °F)
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Cooling Fans
CPU 1805 RPM
Chassis 1607 RPM
Chassis #2 2177 RPM
GPU 1596 RPM (60%)
Many thanks for any advice
p.