Hi all,
I've been having problem with heat issues with my computer when I run graphics intensive games such as Crysis. I clean the sysem interior of dust regularly, but it doesn't seem to help. I've noticed that the component that heats up the most is the graphics card, so I think that is the culprit (Maybe dust has collected on the inside fan areas of the card.
What appears to be the problem is that the graphics card is heating itself up so much that the computer shuts itself off to prevent damage. This is annoying because it is preventing from enjoying games with good graphics. My PC is a Gateway FX 6800 with an ATI Radeon 4850, 3 gigs or memory, and an Intel i7 920 running at 2.66 Ghz.
This has been a fairly recent problem, graphically intensive games ran perfectly before. I regularly download driver updates for my card.
I tried Gateway support, but they weren't much help. I might try ATI, but they recently merged with AMD, and it seems the bigger a company gets, the worse service it has.
Below are some ideas on what might be wrong:
- Graphics card has accumulated dust on fan vent interior and is heating up because of that.
- Driver issues. When I did my first update, I accidently downloaded Catalyst Control Center even though I already had it, but I highly doubt that it is causing the problem.
- Vista. Vista is a resource hoh, so it might be stealing resources from the computer and straining the graphics card.
If anyone could help me, I would appreciate very much.