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Question

10 Y O GPU overheating with WOT game

Oct 28, 2018 4:12PM PDT

1st off yeah I know it's 10 years old Plain At times my GPU heats up to over 200F and crashes while playing WOT - World Of Tanks (other times it's below 150F while playing) I cleaned everything, and reduced all graphic setting in game.
The card I have is a ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
other specs HP e9220y - AMD Phenom II X4 Processor 2.60 GHz - 8 BG Ram = 64 bit
Do you think bumping the fan speed and or overclocking is a (good) idea? I'm not so sure it's worth putting a new GPU in as I would also have to replace the power supply and who know what else and by then the cost would be about the same as a new computer ( I would think)
Any advice? and Thank You

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Hey, I think I had that card over 10 years ago.
Oct 28, 2018 5:44PM PDT

I wonder if it's older than that but doesn't matter. Be sure to replace the heatsink compound and check the fan is working like new. Also with the cover off and a small desk fan pointing at this card (after the new heatsink compound) test it again.

Why would you replace the PSU? Most of those old cards were about 25 Watts. Even the new 1050 Ti is about 75 watts or about the power of adding a few HDDs so I don't see why I'd change it yet without full details.

Next week I have some old iron ready for an upgrade. I think the HP is the d5000t with a 305 or 350W PSU and we'll put in a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB GPU then measure the power usage with the usual AC Power meter.

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Old GPU overheat
Oct 29, 2018 2:53PM PDT

Thanks for the reply, I had replaced the compound when cleaned, I rather doubt the cards fan is working like new, I will likely replace that or the card soon, Last night I took off the side cover and pointed a small fan at the card that dropped the temp to 120F at rest and 150F (just within the normal range) while playing WOT so that will work for now TY, I was told the the new GPU I was looking at (don't recall what one) required a Min 400W PSU however they most likely just wanted another sale.
Enjoy the upgrade I'm not far behind you on that one as I would like to turn the games settings back up.

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That min 400
Oct 29, 2018 3:07PM PDT

Is to keep folk from getting too near the edge and to cover DUAL RAIL +12V PSUs which are the devil's own design IMO.

I've seen the 1050 Ti is OK on 350W PSUs. How we test that is to use a Watt Meter.
https://www.amazon.com/P3-P4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU
for example. We know the conversion efficiency is about 80% so we can see what the PC draws in total to see if we are near the top of the PSU's capability. So it's our choice how far to push this but often I find the total draw to be 200 which is not pushing the 350W PSU hard.

As to the GPU fan your test tells me the GPU is OK. Just some sort of fan or airflow issue.