Recent content by Matthewmatt3

It sounds like dust has built up inside the machine over the years. Dust acts like insulation, it keeps the heat inside the machine. It also clogs up fans and makes them less efficient. The more dust that builds up the worse it will get, especially inside a laptop. What people usually do when...

I was never trolling at all in this thread. The problems I had were very real. It doesn't matter any more because I have two working 280X's from Sapphire that have been running for about two weeks with one in each Intel systems I own. Thank's to the people that actually tried to help me, it is...

The 400 series cards run pretty hot, especially with the stock fan. Try turning your fan speed up a little to see if anything changes. My GTX 460 is the ASUS GTX 460 1GB V2 running at 900Mhz Core and 1800Mhz on the Memory with a custom fan curve starting at 40% or 55% depending on how hot my...

I forgot to upload this last picture of GPU-Z with TF2 running. This card was pushing just above 30 FPS in Team Fortress 2, compared to my broken GTX 460 that still managed to push 140 FPS. If the Sapphire 280X does the same thing(I hope to god it doesn't) Then yes, The MSI Gaming 780 will be...