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    1520 video card overheating? *pics*

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by MannyD, May 23, 2008.

  1. MannyD

    MannyD Notebook Guru

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    Okay this is a relatively new issue for me in the past month. While playing, games will freeze for about 3 seconds and performance will significantly drop from then on until I restart my computer. Yesterday while playing World in Conflict this problem was even more serious, the game froze and I saw artifacts all over the screen for a few seconds and then the performance dropped. This problem happens with different drivers and all games.


    Avg. Temperature is about 58 celsius with regular computing and peaks at about 83-90 Celsius in games.

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    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    Try cleaning your fans out. Should reduce heat.
     
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    MannyD Notebook Guru

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    Okay this all started after I had my palm rest replaced. I noticed the little metal heatsink or whatever it is in left vent is crooked and that my DVD-Drive moves very easily when I eject the disk tray? Should it be this way or did the tech mess something up. Oh and sometimes when I change disks my disk drive disappears until I restart!
     
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If the heatsink is crooked that means both the sink and the thermal paste are screwed up. That would definitely cause your issues.
     
    Greg, May 23, 2008
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    it is definately the thermal paste not working. when i opened mine, it was totally dried up and hard a rock. applied high performance paste, OC to 650MHz. peak at only 67C on full load.
     
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    MannyD Notebook Guru

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    Here is a picture of the vent. I just checked my temps and their at 63 celsius. Is this normal?
     
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    Blow out the vents on the side there and the fan on the bottom with compressed air. If that does not fix it contact dell for a repair again.
     
    nizzy1115, May 23, 2008
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    My Dell is taking a vacation back to the Dell Depot for the 3rd time. Nice!
     
    MannyD, May 23, 2008
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