Help With Cooling

[WingerDinger]

As the intro cannot be any clearer, i will be.

I purchased a Sony Vaio PCV-RX830, almost a year ago. About three months with the PC I bought an Atlantis Radeon 9700Pro, and because I didnt know much about tweaking i figured I'd overclock a little bit, to see if anything went wrong, even though there was no need to overclock in the first place. I managed to overclock my GFX card about 15 to 20 notches above the normal settings. I had no problems for a long time until one day, while playing counter-strike, my game just went screwy on me. Lines were everywhere, it just was bad. I didnt know what it was until i asked someone who had previous knowledge of overclocking, he told me that it looked like an overheating video card. so i quickly underclocked my GFX card. still the problem persisted.

after looking around i went to newegg and bought a new case, with some good opportunities for cooling, and a cheap price.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...ion=11-124-058

i bought the case, with a 120mm fan, and 2 other 80mm fans. after i installed everything, thinking the problem would be solved, it still persisted.

right now i dont know if my fans are hooked up in a not so good way, if i should buy a new fan for my gpu, or if i should buy a new fan/heatsinc for my cpu. (btw my fans are set up as - 120mm intake in front, all others are exhaust including my psu and cpu)

SPEX
http://sonyweb1.isomedia.com/support...x830_Specs.htm
Atlantis Radeon 9700 Pro
Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1!
2 80mm antec double ball bearing fans
2 80mm generic
1 120mm thermaltake fan
WinXP Home

if there are any more questions just ask. any help at all will be greatly appreciated.


EDIT - sorry i forgot to mention the current temps that i know of
cpu - 46C (idle) 52+C (running game)
mobo - 35C
room - 70F (sorry i dont know the conversion)

[The__tweaker]

I'm sorry but it sounds like your card is damaged, if those lines doesn't go away even after turning the frequencys down to stock and mounting it in a cooler case solution then the card might have been permanently damaged by your overclock and the overheating.. :(

If possible you should try your card in another computer and see if the problems still there, just to be sure.. :2cents:

[WingerDinger]

i tried it in a computer, but it was just being used as a server so i couldnt play any game to test that out, at first it bugged out but eventually wored well for a bout 30 min. im an impulse buyer so i just wanted to see if it would work at all in my old case, and once it did i just got the new one. i was afraid it bight be ded. anyone got a 98600Pro For sale :D ill trade

[WingerDinger]

UPDATE - took my 9700pro out and am trying to rma it, gl with this.

[AsianBatman]

Originally Posted by WingerDinger

i tried it in a computer, but it was just being used as a server so i couldnt play any game to test that out, at first it bugged out but eventually wored well for a bout 30 min. im an impulse buyer so i just wanted to see if it would work at all in my old case, and once it did i just got the new one. i was afraid it bight be ded. anyone got a 98600Pro For sale :D ill trade

a 98600?? DANG THEY MAKE THOSE???

[WingerDinger]

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