Hi all,
A few years ago, I bought a refurbished Asus CM6730 with an ASUS GT640 (fan-cooled) graphics card. The original graphics card was DOA so the manufacturer got me a new one. One year later, the fan literally melted off the card (and it died). Fast-forward to this year, I finally got around to buy an MSI GT710 (heat sink this time) as replacement. 4 months later, I'm getting a partially pink screen and a jerky picture (not a cable problem, HDMI and VGA give the same picture) which make it seem like this one is overheating too...
In case that matters, my power supply is a modest 300W, but does that matter when having a heat sink? Plus these are pretty modest graphics cards. Also, I don't think the games I play are particularly graphics-intensive and would stress the card, but I could be wrong.
Anyway sounds like graphics cards just keep on overheating and dying on this config and I'd really like it to stop! Hopefully, it's just a matter of figuring out the faulty component in my config but I don't know where to start to figure that out. Since it keeps happening, it feels that the graphics card itself isn't the problem, but I could also just have been unlucky with the draw...
Thanks in advance for the help!
A few years ago, I bought a refurbished Asus CM6730 with an ASUS GT640 (fan-cooled) graphics card. The original graphics card was DOA so the manufacturer got me a new one. One year later, the fan literally melted off the card (and it died). Fast-forward to this year, I finally got around to buy an MSI GT710 (heat sink this time) as replacement. 4 months later, I'm getting a partially pink screen and a jerky picture (not a cable problem, HDMI and VGA give the same picture) which make it seem like this one is overheating too...
In case that matters, my power supply is a modest 300W, but does that matter when having a heat sink? Plus these are pretty modest graphics cards. Also, I don't think the games I play are particularly graphics-intensive and would stress the card, but I could be wrong.
Anyway sounds like graphics cards just keep on overheating and dying on this config and I'd really like it to stop! Hopefully, it's just a matter of figuring out the faulty component in my config but I don't know where to start to figure that out. Since it keeps happening, it feels that the graphics card itself isn't the problem, but I could also just have been unlucky with the draw...
Thanks in advance for the help!
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