My 8800gt was doing the same thing, it was so bad I had to water cool my 965. I upgraded to a 5770 for 120$ from newegg. I'll get another 5770 when I can't max out my next new game. I would have gotten a gtx460 but I have a CF mobo and didn't feel like hacking it to get SLI.

Is it worth it? I'm prolly going to upgrade to a 5870 when the 6000's come out and wondering if I should just get a 470 right now and skip the eyefinity. I also wanted to know if two lower grade monitors, 17" or so for the side monitors would be just as good. I'm just guessing when I think you'd be looking at the main monitor most of the time and the two side ones are mainly for peripheral vision. I play alot of FPS games so peripheral is kind of important to me. If it's worth it.

have you tried taking out your card and only using onboard graphics to see if it works ok?

Mine does the same thing when unlocking the cores. Obviously they aren't at 0.

Bought a corsair h50, it lowered temps by 10 deg, I think the problem is my PSU, it's 500w but is getting really hot. I'm going to change that out and use it for my HTPC soon. It'll suck to have water cooling and not be able to OC, ftl.

69 deg after 10 mins. with coretemp.

I could have put it on too thick, but I only used about a pea size, and spread it evenly.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product.aspx?c=1314&id=1452

Seems like my cpu is running pretty hot, any suggestions? I allready scraped off the stock paste and put on arctic 5, got me down a couple degrees. But I'm still at 70c at full load, and that's in a short ammount of time.

wind 7 64

amd 965 B.E.

1600 corsair 2x2gb

500w ps

msi 890-gxm g65

300g sata, 250g ide

8800gt

8600gt, haven't gotten it to work sli yet, will work on that later.

one 120mm fan at the back of the case blowing out, one 80mm at the front sucking in, stock amd cooler

keep in mind this is a matx board but in a thermaltake mid tower, so I understand it may run a little warm, but these temps are after 5 mins of occt.

my next option is obviously the stock cooler sucks, but should it be running this hot? I'm about to go get an h50 from best buy, on sale for $60, but I want to make sure I'm not putting a baid aid on another problem.

just did a new install, seems ok. thanks.