Z71V Geforce GO locks up during gameplay ALL THE TIME

Hey everyone! I just posted that I bought my new upgrade for my Z71V its the 128MB card everyone else has.

Anyways it seems whenever I start getting into a good game (especially Battlfield 2) my pc always seems to lockup! It seems heat related and it happens when the card is overclocked. The funny thing is.... to my the overclocked settting arent even that high, and they are much lower then the "nvidia optimal settings" which I remember on my desktop were usually on the really conservative side....I could go 20-50mhz higher then the nvidia "optimal" settings. However on my laptop im lucky if i go 20-50 lower then the "optimal" setting and not have it lockup 10 minutes in..


Here is my guess.... whenever you set your cards new mhz setting and do a 30 second or 2 minute test... its not enough time for the heatsink to get saturated in heat like it does while playing for extended lengths. I think everyone knows where im going with this. Tthe stock heatsink is so small it builds up heat very quickly and the fan on the heatsink is so crappy it seems. Its not doing a great job of dissipating heat.

I took a bunch of copper fins from my older desktop 6600Gt I opened up the top of the heatsink and wedged a bunch of those copper fins in. Now I can use the overclock setting that would lock my card up. It seems the more surface area... or the more heatsink metal thats in that heatsink the better.

I really want a nice good heatsink I know TurtleBob on ebay has his for $95...but thats $95 ...very expensive. I understand why it costs so much but.... I really dont want to spend that much to get a better heatsink. I wish some bigger companies would take stuff like this and help us out...but theirs not a lot of money in that so why would they..


Still if anyone has any ideas on better ways to cool our gpus in our Z71Vs i am ALL EARS!¬¬

Oh heres the last thing im going to say... ok the Z71A if you look at it...looks identical to the Z71v. I have a Z71A for my brother and when i took it apart you can see. The 915 chipset is right where the Nvidia card is on the Z71V. So the heatsink used for the Z71A is just a much smaller version of the one we have. The fan is pushed forwards and if it was used on our laptop the fan would be sitting right on the nvidia card.

Heres what im thinking....maybe a new heatsink fan combo could be made and we could completely scrap that old design. TWO SEPERATE HEATSINKS!!! The 915 chipset on our Z71V's dont need barely any heat dissipation. A medium sized heatsink block with a little ambient air flow would be more then suffiecent to cool the 915 chipset.

Which would be nice if we could just focus on making a heatsink/fan combo for the nvidia card solely. I might buy a few heatsink/fan combos from Asus for the Z71A i want to try a modified version of that heatsink on my Nvidia card. Or maybe a smaller desktop heatsink, it becomes a lot more plausible when you dont have to cool the 915 chipset and the nvidia card that is what makes cooling both of these cards very hard.