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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of |
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> that? i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than enough |
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> cooling on the case. The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not turning or |
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> something. I did blow out the dust a while back and I do have filters over |
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> the intakes to help some. |
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Some Nvidia cards can go into a slow-motion mode when they overheat, I |
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had that happen on mine (it was a 6000 or 7000 series, I think) when |
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the fan died and I didn't realize it. The slowdown was dramatic in |
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those cases. It would usually happen if I was playing a game or a |
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video, suddenly it would go 2 frames per second. I'd stop the |
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game/video, and even things like opening a window were slow. After a |
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minute or two, everything would be back to normal speed. Eventually I |
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learned that the card was protecting itself by switching to an |
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ultra-slow mode to try to fight the overheating. |
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nvidia-settings may be able to show you the temperature and speeds on |
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your card. You might need to add: |
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Option "coolbits" "1" |
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to the device section in your xorg.conf to get it to show you some of |
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those options if they aren't initially visible. |
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