Comments on: How to make your GPU temperature drop 40 degrees Celsius http://blog.dr-ivan.com/2009/11/30/how-to-make-your-gpu-temperature-drop-40-degrees-celsius/ Where you will find my thoughts and reflections on medicine, music, art and technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:49:03 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: RiceX1055 http://blog.dr-ivan.com/2009/11/30/how-to-make-your-gpu-temperature-drop-40-degrees-celsius/comment-page-1/#comment-3452 RiceX1055 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:47:38 +0000 http://blog.dr-ivan.com/?p=332#comment-3452 I had the same problem with my 9800GTX. It had been working perfectly until recently. I noticed that the temp under full load was increasing from 60 to 70 to almost 80. I thought that was just because its been a constant 80 degrees Fahrenheit here recently, and that temp increase made the GPU run hotter. But the card overheated and fried yesterday. Took it apart today and alas a huge dust wall on the heat sink where the fan blows its air. Basically blocking all air flow. The same thing happened to my 6 year old laptop a few months ago to, a wall of dust and dog/cat hair clogged any air from getting in or out of the system so slowly the CPU began to fry. It is very important to clean out your computer especially if there is a lot of dust around it. I had the same problem with my 9800GTX. It had been working perfectly until recently. I noticed that the temp under full load was increasing from 60 to 70 to almost 80. I thought that was just because its been a constant 80 degrees Fahrenheit here recently, and that temp increase made the GPU run hotter. But the card overheated and fried yesterday. Took it apart today and alas a huge dust wall on the heat sink where the fan blows its air. Basically blocking all air flow. The same thing happened to my 6 year old laptop a few months ago to, a wall of dust and dog/cat hair clogged any air from getting in or out of the system so slowly the CPU began to fry. It is very important to clean out your computer especially if there is a lot of dust around it.

]]> By: Hunter M. http://blog.dr-ivan.com/2009/11/30/how-to-make-your-gpu-temperature-drop-40-degrees-celsius/comment-page-1/#comment-2711 Hunter M. Wed, 12 May 2010 03:44:01 +0000 http://blog.dr-ivan.com/?p=332#comment-2711 "[Dust] was located in the narrow gap between the fan and copper tubing which rendered it invisible from the outside and firmly in place out of reach of my cleaning tools. Otherwise the fan was clean – apparently my cleaning had payed off at least to some extent. Without any hesitation I removed the thick dust clot blocking air passage from the fan. Lo and behold, temperature readings dropped from 85C on idle to 60C (!)" THIS!!! I found the same exact thing when I was applying new thermal grease to my GTX 285 after I had it running almost 24/7 utilizing Folding@home. It was peaking at 95 C under load! I slowly watched the max load temperature increase throughout the year from a low 65 C up to 95 C. I thought it was the thermal paste so I replaced the manufacture paste with Arctic Silver 5, but then decided to remove the fan top just as you did. I found a thick 'pad' of dust that could NOT be seen without removing the fan. It dropped my peak of 95 C to under 70 C instantaneously. Its been 6 months since I did this and now my max load is slowly increasing, currently peaking at 84 C. I will be cleaning my card every year for this. I thought I had a faulty card, but really it was SUPER dusty! Glad to see someone else discovered this! I'm going to follow your blog. Great minds think alike. “[Dust] was located in the narrow gap between the fan and copper tubing which rendered it invisible from the outside and firmly in place out of reach of my cleaning tools. Otherwise the fan was clean – apparently my cleaning had payed off at least to some extent. Without any hesitation I removed the thick dust clot blocking air passage from the fan. Lo and behold, temperature readings dropped from 85C on idle to 60C (!)”

THIS!!! I found the same exact thing when I was applying new thermal grease to my GTX 285 after I had it running almost 24/7 utilizing Folding@home. It was peaking at 95 C under load! I slowly watched the max load temperature increase throughout the year from a low 65 C up to 95 C. I thought it was the thermal paste so I replaced the manufacture paste with Arctic Silver 5, but then decided to remove the fan top just as you did. I found a thick ‘pad’ of dust that could NOT be seen without removing the fan. It dropped my peak of 95 C to under 70 C instantaneously. Its been 6 months since I did this and now my max load is slowly increasing, currently peaking at 84 C. I will be cleaning my card every year for this. I thought I had a faulty card, but really it was SUPER dusty! Glad to see someone else discovered this! I’m going to follow your blog. Great minds think alike.

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