What's the Max heat that An AMD HD5450 can Bear ?

[loursbourg]

Guys, i have an hd5450 ddr3 (2gb if that matters it's all crap)
i have 2gb ram , e6300 (1.86ghz) , 470w PSU, and windows 7 Home Edition installed ,
when i play games like COD MW2,Crysis 2 or Remember me, everything works okay , but when i am just browsing the web or doing normal stuff , the graphics card crashes from time to time , Noisy lines appear and the screen freezes then restarts !: i repeat when i play games it works fine no lines no freezing , but else it crashes ! help

 

[Jake Held]

Not sure heat is the only issue. When overclocking power is a issue as well, a 470W PSU is kinda small for overclocking (depends on how much though). I know when I used under-powered PSU I had the SAME PROBLEMS, but this was years ago...I learned my lesson. Though, assuming it is not a power issue and is a heat problem I would not let it get hotter than 70'c anything more and you will see problems with the system.

Hope this helped!

 

[loursbourg]

Not sure heat is the only issue. When overclocking power is a issue as well, a 470W PSU is kinda small for overclocking (depends on how much though). I know when I used under-powered PSU I had the SAME PROBLEMS, but this was years ago...I learned my lesson. Though, assuming it is not a power issue and is a heat problem I would not let it get hotter than 70'c anything more and you will see problems with the system.

Hope this helped!

 

[loursbourg]

Bro how can i tell if i'm overclocking ?

 

[Jake Held]

If you are overclocking, you would know. This is not something that is done with a few clicks. But, if you want to check you can open ATI Catalyst and check the clock speed. If it is over 650MHz, you are overclocked.