I have recently built my own PC and it was working fine til I played 30mins of Medal Of Honour AA.
Then I got a message saying my Video Card had stopped responding, then the screen went blank and I could smell burning from my case.
Started to think then that I may have a problem!!!!!
Anyway to cut to the chase, the Video card Radeon 9600 se had burnt out not the main chips under the heatsink but the top of three chips to the left of the main heatsink.
All I want to know is how I can stop this from happening again when I replace the card. I have a standard ATX case with 2 case fans. The video card had no fan just a heatsink.
Would it be best to get a Video card with fan to aid cooling??
System
Windows XP home
Intel D875pbz motherboard.
P4 3.0ghz
Ram 512mb DDR
Sound blaster audigy LS
Maxdor 120gb harddrive
Then I got a message saying my Video Card had stopped responding, then the screen went blank and I could smell burning from my case.
Anyway to cut to the chase, the Video card Radeon 9600 se had burnt out not the main chips under the heatsink but the top of three chips to the left of the main heatsink.
All I want to know is how I can stop this from happening again when I replace the card. I have a standard ATX case with 2 case fans. The video card had no fan just a heatsink.
Would it be best to get a Video card with fan to aid cooling??
System
Windows XP home
Intel D875pbz motherboard.
P4 3.0ghz
Ram 512mb DDR
Sound blaster audigy LS
Maxdor 120gb harddrive