Sparing all of the unnecessary details, my Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo seems to be crashing for no apparent reason.
Its the dell version of the card. With stock speeds of 337.50 Core /243.00 RAM.
I've overclocked the card in many different ways. The card itself plays stable with no artifacts almost up to 380/280. I've also done the GPU Cooling Mod, so my temps rarely, if ever, go above 75C.
The only problem I'm having is after about 2 hours of gameplay, the card freezes, screen goes black, then scrambled, then VPU Recover kicks in and the game comes back on. The temp is still around 75C when this happens. There are no symptoms of overheating showing in the game prior to crashing either. It also seems that this problem occurs regardless of the amount of overclocking applied.
Really, the only possible solution i could come up with is that my Copper Plate for the GPU is slightly too thick and is causing expansion problems when it gets hot. However, were this the case, I would imagine the card would freeze soon after boot up, and definitely soon after the start of a 3D intensive game. So after ruling out that idea (although, by a stretch, its still a possibility) I'm leaft dumbfounded.
Any ideas?
Its the dell version of the card. With stock speeds of 337.50 Core /243.00 RAM.
I've overclocked the card in many different ways. The card itself plays stable with no artifacts almost up to 380/280. I've also done the GPU Cooling Mod, so my temps rarely, if ever, go above 75C.
The only problem I'm having is after about 2 hours of gameplay, the card freezes, screen goes black, then scrambled, then VPU Recover kicks in and the game comes back on. The temp is still around 75C when this happens. There are no symptoms of overheating showing in the game prior to crashing either. It also seems that this problem occurs regardless of the amount of overclocking applied.
Really, the only possible solution i could come up with is that my Copper Plate for the GPU is slightly too thick and is causing expansion problems when it gets hot. However, were this the case, I would imagine the card would freeze soon after boot up, and definitely soon after the start of a 3D intensive game. So after ruling out that idea (although, by a stretch, its still a possibility) I'm leaft dumbfounded.
Any ideas?
