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    Heating issue with nVidia GO 7900

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by spritemoogle, Sep 2, 2009.

  1. spritemoogle

    spritemoogle Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a Dell Inspiron E1705 a while back with a 256mb nVidia GO 7900 graphics card. The system ran games really well for the first year or so, and then started to have problems. I noticed artifacts popping up (the sort that usually indicate bad video card memory) and when the computer ran hot enough it would blue screen and give me a Memory Parity Error. I downloaded I8kfanGUI and cranked up my fans to keep the video card memory heat down, which worked for a while. Since then it has been getting progressively worse. I have to keep it on a cooling pad now with the fans cranked up all the way to keep the heat down. I've already opened it up and cleaned out the fans/heatsink. I was thinking of underclocking the video card ram to reduce heat, but I'm not sure how to do that or whether it will even help. Has anyone else dealt with this problem?
     
    spritemoogle, Sep 2, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

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    I bet the thermal pads between your GPU and heatsink are worn out by now. You would do well to replace the thermal pad with some good thermal paste, like Arctic Silver 5 or ICD7.
     
    Mastershroom, Sep 2, 2009
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