Radeon

[Michael]

Need another suggestion for my 9700 pro. Last week I put
on ram sinks, tweak monster brand with the arctic
adhesive, to help cool the memory on the card. I still
think the card is having heat problems. I have 2 fans in
the back blowing air out, 4 up front blowing in and one
on the side blowing in which use to blow out, but changed
it to blow in on the card. I have nothing around the
card so that I could have good circulation. Ram sinks
are on fine, but when I played UnrealII, those flashing
bars and little black lines that are in a pattern
appeared again and I had to shut down and reboot. I have
all the latest drivers and patches and played with
settings and I know that it's not that, but heat because
a tech who has done work for me before said it was
definitely heat. I do not know what else to do. A
better fan on the gpu? Cannot do the heat pipe like
Zalman's because I don't see any mounting holes for it.
Should I try a card that has that on there or a different
Radeon or maybe the FX? Please help. I have had all of
these frustrations for months.

[Bill Crocker]

I guess I won't ask the usual question, are your drivers up to date?

Are you over clocking it?

What is the wattage of your power supply?

Bill Crocker


"Michael" > wrote in message
...
> Need another suggestion for my 9700 pro. Last week I put
> on ram sinks, tweak monster brand with the arctic
> adhesive, to help cool the memory on the card. I still
> think the card is having heat problems. I have 2 fans in
> the back blowing air out, 4 up front blowing in and one
> on the side blowing in which use to blow out, but changed
> it to blow in on the card. I have nothing around the
> card so that I could have good circulation. Ram sinks
> are on fine, but when I played UnrealII, those flashing
> bars and little black lines that are in a pattern
> appeared again and I had to shut down and reboot. I have
> all the latest drivers and patches and played with
> settings and I know that it's not that, but heat because
> a tech who has done work for me before said it was
> definitely heat. I do not know what else to do. A
> better fan on the gpu? Cannot do the heat pipe like
> Zalman's because I don't see any mounting holes for it.
> Should I try a card that has that on there or a different
> Radeon or maybe the FX? Please help. I have had all of
> these frustrations for months.

[Michael]

The drivers are up to date (catalyst 3.5)and have tried
downgrading drivers too, but that did nothing and
actually went out and bought another Radeon, ATI brand,
and had the same problems and took it back and put back
in my Powercolor. I do not overclock it. I don't have
any tools to overclock and probably would not know how
because I'm not good at knowing how to overclock. The
power supply is 350 watt Antec smart blue power supply.
Wonder if I should increase it? I've been looking at the
Vantec vga ice berg cooler with a gpu heatsink and have
heard good things about it and might try that and see
what happens and see if it does any good. I know there
is a way to fix all of this, but just have not found a
way to do it. I have played with all of the settings
too, resolution and color depths in windows and in the
games and even the AA and AF and agp speed, but that does
no good either.
>-----Original Message-----
>I guess I won't ask the usual question, are your drivers
up to date?
>
>Are you over clocking it?
>
>What is the wattage of your power supply?
>
>Bill Crocker
>
>
>"Michael" > wrote in message
...
>> Need another suggestion for my 9700 pro. Last week I
put
>> on ram sinks, tweak monster brand with the arctic
>> adhesive, to help cool the memory on the card. I still
>> think the card is having heat problems. I have 2 fans
in
>> the back blowing air out, 4 up front blowing in and one
>> on the side blowing in which use to blow out, but
changed
>> it to blow in on the card. I have nothing around the
>> card so that I could have good circulation. Ram sinks
>> are on fine, but when I played UnrealII, those flashing
>> bars and little black lines that are in a pattern
>> appeared again and I had to shut down and reboot. I
have
>> all the latest drivers and patches and played with
>> settings and I know that it's not that, but heat
because
>> a tech who has done work for me before said it was
>> definitely heat. I do not know what else to do. A
>> better fan on the gpu? Cannot do the heat pipe like
>> Zalman's because I don't see any mounting holes for it.
>> Should I try a card that has that on there or a
different
>> Radeon or maybe the FX? Please help. I have had all
of
>> these frustrations for months.
>
>
>.
>

[Frank]

Michael wrote:
| Need another suggestion for my 9700 pro. Last week I put
| on ram sinks, tweak monster brand with the arctic
| adhesive, to help cool the memory on the card. I still
| think the card is having heat problems. I have 2 fans in
| the back blowing air out, 4 up front blowing in and one
| on the side blowing in which use to blow out, but changed
| it to blow in on the card. I have nothing around the
| card so that I could have good circulation. Ram sinks
| are on fine, but when I played UnrealII, those flashing
| bars and little black lines that are in a pattern
| appeared again and I had to shut down and reboot. I have
| all the latest drivers and patches and played with
| settings and I know that it's not that, but heat because
| a tech who has done work for me before said it was
| definitely heat. I do not know what else to do. A
| better fan on the gpu? Cannot do the heat pipe like
| Zalman's because I don't see any mounting holes for it.
| Should I try a card that has that on there or a different
| Radeon or maybe the FX? Please help. I have had all of
| these frustrations for months.

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