Recent content by StillPoor

How do I determine if the problem is the card vs the heat sink? I suppose I could start by replacing the heat sink as that would be cheap.

Absolutely. I'm just confused as the readings and behavior of it doesn't make sense to me. I'm not even clear what the issue is other than a fan gone nuts and seemingly divergent temp readings. I'm thinking of shutting down fans and systems one by one and doing a repaste of the heatsink to try...

Ok, I just rebooted and the TriXX Sapphire utility is saying that it is running at minus 165c. My dumb error but also a stupid number as I would be frozen to death by now. The fan just blasts along at 100%. If the picture wasn't fine I would think the card is toast. Utilities to adjust fan...

My configuration is: Intel i7 2600k, Asus P8P67 M-Pro, Radeon HD 6950 Toxic 2G DDR 5, Coolermaster Silent Pro 850 PS, and two monitors Life has been good until today. The system is about two years old. While doing basic stuff on internet and word processing the fan kicked in at 100%, after a...