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3 of my videocards have been overheating to the point where it doesn't work anymore. This has happend all in about two weeks. I had the first video card for a while and it stopped working a few weeks ago. So I bought another one thinking it was the video card but that one stopped working too. So I bought another one and I noticed the the heatsink gets very hot. I ordered a fan for it but it was too late. And also, I used agp and pci video cards and same result. Is it possible that the motherboard is to blame? I have a crappy WinFast motherboard. I had if for a while. So is it the motherboard?

Dino

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It could be the board. One (slightly expensive) way to figure out would be to get a known, working vid card, use it on another system, and if it doesn't blow up there, use it on your system. If it does blow up in your board, get a new board.

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Hey dino...what make and model are the graphic cards, and what make and model is you PSU?

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Hey dino...what make and model are the graphic cards, and what make and model is you PSU?

One of the video cards was a PNY GeForce Ti4200 8x ddr 64mb, an XFX Geforce FX5200 128 mb DDR and the last one was a some cheap ATI card. It's wierd because that cheap one had both ATI and Geforece on the box. I don't know the make and model for my PSU.

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If your PSU doesn't have enough wattage it can produce these results.

Let's try this from another angle, what make and model is your computer?

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If your PSU doesn't have enough wattage it can produce these results.

Let's try this from another angle, what make and model is your computer?

My computer is custom built. I bought the power box and motherboard seperately. I guess im gonna buy a new power supply and see how things work out.

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