[mythtv-users] Why is OpenGL video renderer overheating my GPU?

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Fri May 18 23:42:40 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
>> The only other suggestion I can think of (given your space constraints)
>> might be to consider going water cooled. That replaces the heatsink with a
>> chip-water heat exchanger and then the warm water is piped off elsewhere in
>> the case to where you can have a much bigger heatsink (radiator) to get rid
>> of the heat.
>
> Water cooling rigs are usually somewhat expensive.  It would probably
> be cheaper to just get a new video card that doesn't overheat, be that
> another 220 with a better fan/sink or a 430 or something similar.
>
> Eric

I went this route.  I just picked up a 430 single slot that I thought
had a big heat sink but actually has a fan.  In my limited testing,
the card has not gone above 60 degrees and nvidia-smi actually gives a
reading for fan speed.  So far, so good.


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