Hot Enough to Cook an Egg...

[Pelter]

I having a huge problem that is bugging me.

My 295 stays at safe temps around 55C at idle and 85C under load... until i try my higher caliber games like Crysis or WiC, thats when i achieve 100C to 105C.

Now it isnt the lifespan thats bugging me because I have warrenty, its the fact that when it reaches these temps the games start to... heavily stutter. For example I will have about 50 to 60 fps in crysis but suddenly every 2 secs it will drop to 3 or 2 so it turns into a stutterfest. Now i looked up microstuttering... and it doesnt look like its that. I think this is plain overheating. So now I am asking... what MORE can i do to cool this thing? I have about 7 fans blowing at full speed with a house fan on the side and it still reaches those temps. Im sorry to bug everyone AGAIN with this problem but i dont know where else to turn. I have looked at other forums and they all say they run at 87 - 95 under load.

Please any suggestions would be great. Once again I am sorry to bug everyone again about this. Also is the frame dropping problem part of heat, or is that a glitch?

Please leave Water Cooling as a last resort.

[ultima]

i wonder if the heatsink is bad on gpu

not really bad, but not connected properly to the gpu itself

cause those temps are WAY too high
and thats causing the frame issues

i've had video cards do exactly what you described, and all related to heat


also is it brand new ?

[Pelter]

Well it is not COMPLETELY brand new, got it around Feb/March, Why?

Also thanks for the confirmation of the stuttering problem, I was hoping it wasn't my other hardware or driver problems. I have done MANY tests to try and figure that one out.

The wierd part is that it never overheated before when i got it, which is why im going to try and crack it open. I read on a forum they use shitty thermal paste and not much of it. Im gonna read up on how u crack it open and put alot of paste on because apparently it reduces temps by 5C - 10C. Also when I crack it open ill check that it is in place properly and hopefully this wont void any warrenty. EVGA says that warrenty is only void if there is physical damage or warrenty stickers destroyed. Heres to hoping they didnt put it right on top of an important screw I need to rip off, yet I bet it is there.

That helped me alot, but any more solutions are welcome just in case I cant crack it open without voiding warrenty.

BTW: Those temperatures im having are with 100% fan speed ALWAYS on...

[-RK]

Do not put A LOT of paste on!

The goal of the thermal paste is to fill in minuscule gaps between the GPU and heat sink with something that conducts heat better than air. You don't want to use too much because it is actually an insulator when compared to direct metal to metal contact. Too much compound and you end up with less metal to metal contact.

As a side note... Take a look at Arctic Cooling's MX pastes, they seem to do wonders for non-conductive paste.