My Computer had Overheated

[RMS Gigantic]

Some of you may have noticed my nearly complete absense on Blockland and its respective forum recently. This is the reason why, for those who give a care:

Monday or Tuesday two weeks ago, there was a Drama topic regarding overuse of emoticons. At least one of my posts in that topic resulted in a one week ban from posting and PMing because of spam.

At approximately 1 or 2:00 in the morning local time on the Monday before the ban ended, I began to smell smoke from my computer room. My computer froze and refused to start up. The computer encountered this problem on May 31st, while its warrantee expired on May 29th. It turns out that the problem was its video card, a GeForce 8500 or so. It was replaced with something along the lines of a 9500, and is currently in my mother's car, on its way home once she returns from golf.

tl;dr: I was banned from the forum for a week, but before it ended, my computer's video card overheated.

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[Plateau]

well maybe you shouldn't leave it on to much

[Moppy]

Dang

[Pah1023]

THat has to sucked

[RMS Gigantic]

well maybe you shouldn't leave it on to much

I shut it down every night. In fact, I had it off, ready for bed, when I thought to check on something, so I turned it on. Some time after that is when the smell of smoke began.

[Digmaster]

this sucks. I guess the fan on the GPU broke.

[General Nick]

While on the subject of overheating and smoke;

Is 66 degrees celsius a safe temperature for a graphics card, specifically a 9800GT?

I was playing TF2 (Jcink's server ftw), and all of a sudden my TF2 froze and the image went blank. I alt tabbed and found a little notification in the corner: "Display Driver nvlddmkm has stopped working and has fully recovered." I quickly opened up EVGA Precision and found my graphics temperature at 66 Celsius climbing down. I know nvlddmkm is the main driver file for Nvidia cards, and I've seen this happen before, but is my graphics overheating or is it just overworked?

[JD]

Seeing as I have no idea who you are, then that must mean that truly was an almost complete absence.
That really sucks about the graphics card =\

[RMS Gigantic]

Seeing as I have no idea who you are, then that must mean that truly was an almost complete absence.
That really sucks about the graphics card =\

It's okay, since I now have the 9500 GT in and it all works like a charm! :D

[NoZoner]

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You shouldn't have to worry too much about the temps your 9800GT is giving you. 85C is supposedly normal for gaming.

Edit:

I'd start to worry at whatever C is at 200f

200F = 93-94C

[Menen]

Thats why i clean out my computer of dust frequently!

[Digmaster]

While on the subject of overheating and smoke;

Is 66 degrees celsius a safe temperature for a graphics card, specifically a 9800GT?

I was playing TF2 (Jcink's server ftw), and all of a sudden my TF2 froze and the image went blank. I alt tabbed and found a little notification in the corner: "Display Driver nvlddmkm has stopped working and has fully recovered." I quickly opened up EVGA Precision and found my graphics temperature at 66 Celsius climbing down. I know nvlddmkm is the main driver file for Nvidia cards, and I've seen this happen before, but is my graphics overheating or is it just overworked?

oh dear god I hoped I was the only one

It'll start doing that a lot on certain things. It started in Wow, then moved onto Blockland, and now it does it on Minecraft. Freakin minecraft. :(

EVGA has great phone suppost, so if your bored call them up and ask. Then tell me. I've got the exact game graphics card.

Oh an 66 is a lot, but I wouldn't worrty. I'd start to worry at whatever C is at 200f. (66 is like 150f if I'm not mistaken) Mine's idling at 140f (like 60c) right now. but I got a ton of stuff up (blender, songbird, firefox, exc)

[General Nick]

I'll call em tomorrow. I highly doubt anyone is there right now at 12 AM.

Lol i should try anyway.

[Slicksilver555]

Is 66 degrees celsius a safe temperature for a graphics card, specifically a 9800GT?

Definatly not. It shouldn't be over 55 like ever. Google 'speedfan' and download that, it will allow you to overclock the fan.

[n0cturni]

CPU stays under 60C, GPU stays under 70C.

A little above 70C for the GPU is okay, but you should still be cautioned.