Computers GPU heating up

[partha1955]

Dear all, I recently installed a Nvidia Geforce GT210 graphic card in my Intel 945GCNL motherboard with with a core2duo processor . Though it is working fine, the graphic cards large heat sink is just warms up, but the computers small Graphic processor's heat sink really hot 'sup. Somewhere I read that installing a graphic card disables the motherboard's graphic processor. Then why is the mother board graphic processor hotting up?. I opened the spring clamp and applied liberal dose of heat sink paste but no luck. Any explanation.

 

[Cons29]

wait, is you gt210 passively cooled? if so, then IT IS normal for that to heat up. although it is a slow card, it will still be hot since there's no fan.
if it is actively cooled (meaning you have a fan there, not just a heatsink) then you have an issue.

second, which other heatsink is heating up? you should have only 2 heatsinks in the board, for north bridge and south. it does not necessarily mean that the built in gpu is causing that since yes it is disabled.

as far as i know, these north/south, these are being used by the busses, fsb's etc. so it may not be the built in gpu. although i may be wrong (rusty), but i think it is not your built-in gpu.

 

[partha1955]

wait, is you gt210 passively cooled? if so, then IT IS normal for that to heat up. although it is a slow card, it will still be hot since there's no fan.
if it is actively cooled (meaning you have a fan there, not just a heatsink) then you have an issue.

second, which other heatsink is heating up? you should have only 2 heatsinks in the board, for north bridge and south. it does not necessarily mean that the built in gpu is causing that since yes it is disabled.

as far as i know, these north/south, these are being used by the busses, fsb's etc. so it may not be the built in gpu. although i may be wrong (rusty), but i think it is not your built-in gpu.

Thanks Cons. Yes it may not be the boards GPU as you said, it may be the north bridge or the south bridge heat sink. I will go through the motherboards layout. Yes GT210 is passively cooled and is doing nice, only warms up.

 

[partha1955]

Thanks Cons. Yes it may not be the mother boards GPU heat sink. As you said it may be the north bridge or the south bridge. I will go thourgh the motherboards layout The passively cooled GT210 heat sink just warms up and doing very well.

 

[Cons29]

for your gt210, just slap a fan in there. if you can find one, get spotcool, it's handy. even if you ditch your gpu in the future, you can still use the spotcool.

or just slap a fan there, use your imagination