nikwriter Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Hello, After playing Battefield 3 Ultra no problem on my Nvidia GTX 660 Ti video card, I figured I'd try to get Skyrim looking a bit better. I'm a long time mod-user but usually just content mods because of my old computer. This time I tried out some graphical improvements. However, after only 1 month of having this video card it was overheating and whining loudly. It could just be a defective card (1 month is not a long time), but I'm wondering if any of the following mods could cause something like this. Textures:Skyrim HD http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/607AMidianBorn Book of Silence http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/24909 Rendering:FXAA Injector http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/131 Environment:RLO http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/30450Project Reality http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802Pure Water http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/1111 Once I replace my card (it's on RMA atm) I want to be sure this doesn't happen again, walking on eggshells a bit... Thanks for any help provided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanadinit Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 No GPU ever should be overheating no matter what you will do with it on the standard settings of your card. IF the card is overheating then your card must do really much and have a bad GPU Bios setting or have a real malfunction on the GPU thermometers. I only run ATI cards for the last 10 years and I know some of them who need a custom tweak to their fan controls because the BIOS card settings are really to slow to catch the to fast rising temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalikka Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 (edited) Even with over 110 mods and insane OC the temperatures are under 70C. (reference HD7950 is 800mhz/1250mhz, my HD7950WF is at 1200mhz/1500mhz)What does that mean? If your GPU ever overheats, RMA it. Edited April 19, 2013 by kalikka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrj0j0e Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 (edited) My advice is to make sure that you clean the dust out of your case every now and then, make sure all of your fans and vents have room to pull air in from the front and push it out of the back.Make sure that the back of your PC case isn't too close to a wall as the exhausted heat needs room to blow out and away from your PC. It is also possible that some of the settings from the FXAA Injector could be causing heating issues if not set up correctly, always use third party graphics tweaks with caution and of course keep your system drivers/software up to date. Good luck with your new card. Edited April 20, 2013 by mrj0j0e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsmanners Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Yeah, hardware problems are hardware problems. Might be you need an extra cooler in there. Make sure you aren't overheating your hard drive, CPU, PSU, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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