Heating issues?

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i am having a 4870HD of XFX and its having a problem of overheating. I play usually from 3 to 4 hrs. what may be the problem???? also i play like i connect that GPU with 2 PSUs i.e it consists of 2 sata out of which 4 IDE connectors come but the [problem is i am having 2 psus with 2 sata and 2 ide each???? i cant go for a higher PSU as its 22222222222 costly????? what  shud i do?????

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order some Arctic Silver 5 or MX-4 thermal paste

first turn off your computer. unplug it, hold the power button for 2 seconds to drain power, grab your metal case to ground yourself from static electricity, take out the card and proceed to remove the heatsink from GPU, remove the shroud (the plastic cover) and clean it out with a toothbrush, canned air wiil not get the job done

clean off thermal paste off both the heatsink and the GPU with lint free cloth and rubbing alcohol, place a grain of rice sized drop of paste on the center of the GPU, put the heatsink back on, the shroud is optional

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thanx man bt how to apply thermal paste i mean hw i will spread the paste on self ???? will i require anything to spread it appropriately to all sides????

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The pressure from the heatsink should spread it for you so just apply it.

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If you can I would just clean the dust out from the heatsink, some video cards you will need to remove the heasink from the card to take off the shroud and get to all the dust, if you have to take the heatsink off and apply new thermal paste Logan has a video showing how it is done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNgFNH7zhQ&feature=relmfu

When I cleaned my brothers Radeon HD 4xxx I had to remove the whole heatsink to get the shroud off and clean out the dust but on my Radeon HD 6970 I was able to remove the shroud without taking off the heatsink.

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Grab some arctic clean 1&2 while your at it.  Get rid of any trace residue on the chip and heatsink.

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hey abt a 550ti hws the graphic card?????

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are you asking if you should get one?

here is a comparioson, to summurise, the 550Ti is faster and cooler and uses about the same amount of power

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/304?vs=330

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thanx every 1 for gud views!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

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i want 2 know whether  GTX 550 ti sli will work on a cooler master extreme 2 625 W PSU ????

my specs:-

processor--amd phenom 2 X6 1055T

M/B--gigabyte 78LMT-S2P usb 2.0

RAM--4GB DDR3 1333 MHZ kingston

HDD-250 GB