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9800pro overheating my Soundcard!
I installed a 9800pro a few days ago and I noticed on occasion I would get
an odd sound come from my soundcard (Audigy2). Took the case panel off last night and found that my soundcard was quite hot from the 9800pro, it was two slots away too and I figure the 9800pro was overheating the chips on the soundcard. Moved the soundcard to the very last slot and all seems fine now so far. Anyone else experience something like this? I felt the heatsink on my 9800pro and it feels way hotter than the one on my cpu. Feels like I'm back in the days of running a Thunderbird cpu and heat from that was the reason I moved to the Intel P4. Maybe I should get me one of those Zalman heatpipes? |
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Its more likely that the AGP and PCI slot that the soundcard was in were
sharing some resources of some kind. Silicone components can take way more heat then we think they can. Matt M and M Electronics 6661 Stanford Ranch Road Suite F, PMB 105 Rocklin Ca 95677 916-275-5871 |
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an odd sound come from my soundcard (Audigy2).
... Moved the soundcard to the very last slot and all seems fine now Could have been an IRQ issue as well. They get fixed when moving PCI slot. Often slot 1 or slot 3 will share IRQ with video card. -Kent |
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How many fans do you have in your system and where are they ? On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:55:46 -0700, "[ ]" wrote: I installed a 9800pro a few days ago and I noticed on occasion I would get an odd sound come from my soundcard (Audigy2). Took the case panel off last night and found that my soundcard was quite hot from the 9800pro, it was two slots away too and I figure the 9800pro was overheating the chips on the soundcard. Moved the soundcard to the very last slot and all seems fine now so far. Anyone else experience something like this? I felt the heatsink on my 9800pro and it feels way hotter than the one on my cpu. Feels like I'm back in the days of running a Thunderbird cpu and heat from that was the reason I moved to the Intel P4. Maybe I should get me one of those Zalman heatpipes? |
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My thought exactly. Poor case cooling. Ideally you should have at least
two fans at the back of the case carrying heat away from the cpu , and two additional fans blowing cool air into the case at the front. JK "We Live For The One We Die For The One" wrote in message ... How many fans do you have in your system and where are they ? On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:55:46 -0700, "[ ]" wrote: I installed a 9800pro a few days ago and I noticed on occasion I would get an odd sound come from my soundcard (Audigy2). Took the case panel off last night and found that my soundcard was quite hot from the 9800pro, it was two slots away too and I figure the 9800pro was overheating the chips on the soundcard. Moved the soundcard to the very last slot and all seems fine now so far. Anyone else experience something like this? I felt the heatsink on my 9800pro and it feels way hotter than the one on my cpu. Feels like I'm back in the days of running a Thunderbird cpu and heat from that was the reason I moved to the Intel P4. Maybe I should get me one of those Zalman heatpipes? |
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using A2 and 9800 here no issues shown so far but then again as rule I
ALWAYS leave the 1st pci slot next to AGP empty to avoid any irq issues so my a2 is several slots away from the 9800. Just Jess "Brian Jones" wrote in message news On this day of our lord, Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:02:02 -0700, "Kent_Diego" quilled: Could have been an IRQ issue as well. They get fixed when moving PCI slot. Often slot 1 or slot 3 will share IRQ with video card. -Kent Nah, I already made sure there was no IRQ conflict. Are there any known issues with the 9800pro and Audigy2 on some motherboards? I have an Asus P4B533 mb. I still think heat was causing a probelm but will have to investigate futher. |
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:00:11 -0700
Brian Jones wrote: On this day of our lord, Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:55:44 GMT, "John Hall" quilled: My thought exactly. Poor case cooling. Ideally you should have at least two fans at the back of the case carrying heat away from the cpu , and two additional fans blowing cool air into the case at the front. JK My cpu and case temp is fine, the vid car was heating up my soundcard because it was next door to it. I don't subscribe to the method of case fans all over the place making a dang racket. I use one exhaust fan and that's all it needs. The air exhausiting is cool to the feel so how can I possibly need more case fans? Well, now, if the air exhausting is "cool to the feel" that might just mean that the flowpath through the case doesn't move air past anything that needs cooling. You might try taking a piece of cardboard and arranging some baffles to move the air where it needs to be. I use the AMD recommended method, even though I run a P4. You need good ventialtion on the front of the case for this to work correctly and one exhast fan plus your PSU also exhausting. The problem is the R9800 doesn't come with the best of cooling solutions on the card itself so I will modify it and add my own. But I'm not having any problems with the vid card itself. I do own a PCI slot vid cooler so I might throw that in for now to make sure but I'm going to put a Zalman heatpipe on it eventually. You guys want to see cooling done right? Look inside a Mac G5. They know how to make a computer cool *and* quiet. -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Brian Jones wrote:
| On this day of our lord, Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:02:02 -0700, "Kent_Diego" | quilled: | | || Could have been an IRQ issue as well. They get fixed when moving PCI || slot. Often slot 1 or slot 3 will share IRQ with video card. || || -Kent || | | Nah, I already made sure there was no IRQ conflict. Are there any | known issues with the 9800pro and Audigy2 on some motherboards? I have | an Asus P4B533 mb. I still think heat was causing a probelm but will | have to investigate futher. A while back there were a bunch of P4B533 mainboards that were just bad. I had to throw one in the dustbin. The knowledge was prevailent on the periphs asus ng. -- Tampa Bay RR |
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