Been having trouble with my graphic card overheating, and I'm still having trouble understanding why. I built this computer about 6 months ago, and everything was fine till about 4 weeks ago when I started playing Stalker. At first everything was going good, but about 10 minutes into the game a beeping noise started going, so this window pops up saying the card is too hot and it's going to under-clock the card (ATI 1900XT) to help lower the temperature.
At first I was baffled, because this had never happen to me before. I decided to just turn the game off and see if I could solve the problem, which I thought I did. I opened up the case and saw some dust build up, so I cleaned everything out and tried playing the game once again. This time the game didn't overheat and everything was fine and dandy. So today I pick up Oblivion, but right when I'm at the character creation screen, I get the dang beeping noise again saying it's going to under-clock the card to help with the overheating. It can't be dust, because it's all cleaned out now, so it has to be something else, but I don't have a clue on what it is. Maybe I need to take the heat-sink off the card and reapply the thermal paste? That's about the only thing I can think of right now.
If more information is needed, I posted my setup here, so here's a LINK to it. Also, my specs are in my sig. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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