Confused here lads

[Merlin4458]

My firend has jsut bought an asus X1600, the one with that dodgy cooler. After about 20 mins of playing his computer freezes for about 5 seconds and can still hear the sounds in the background and then sometimes his monitor swtiches off and says "no signal input"

My first thought was PSU, so he got a replacement psu and it hasnt helped. So now im thinking temperature, but its a new card? soooo should be ok. im not sure how u check the temp on those cards as apparently ati tool doesnt work with x1600's.

do you guys have any ideas as too why this problem is occuring?
Specs:
ASUS A8N5X
EAX1600XT
corsair 512
amd 64 3000
jeantech 600w 19amps on +12, 60 +5, 32 amps on +3.3 or
tagan 480w 28 on +12 48 +5 28 +3.3

Regards,
Merlin

[Merlin4458]

lads?

[Hans Voralberg]

Put your finger on the back of the card, where the GPU is, and take care not to short the thin. Sounds crazy but that's how i check my temp. Or just replace the TIM see if it helps, sounds like temp prob to me too.

[Clunk]

a quick way of checking if its a temp issue is to take off the side panel and blow a desk fan into the case and see if that helps. if it does help then better case airflow is needed. if not, try what Hans said. have a look at the contact between the gpu and heatsink and if its not good, try an aftermarket cooler.

and 512mb of ram running games?

[Merlin4458]

hes checked the temp with finger and doesnt seem too hot. And put a deskfan towards it with no effect. My guess now can be its a faulty card....

[bindo]

I had exactly the same problems..but with an X800 GTO 2, I bought a new CPU HSF and the problems got much better, can play games without any crashes at all before it would crash after about 5 mins!
So i'm thinking it's probably a good idea to get a new cooler for the card, I'm going to get zalman GPU cooler now, just so i can overclock it.

[Merlin4458]

it might not be overheating, as it crashed after 5 seconds when in a game, checked the gpu and it wasnt even warm