I recently put together a new PC specs are as follows-
mATX ADIT fatality motherboard
intel core2-duo E6600
2gigs Platinum ram
Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS
2 500 gig western digital sata2 drives
pioneer cd/dvd r/w drive
The problem I'm having is, the machine will hang and/or reboot when playing games like LOTRO or HL2 for extended periods, it lasts longer the lower the settings are but even on medium LOTRO hung it. The card gets very hot, the heatsink when it hangs I can only keep my finger on it for 5 seconds, tops. It always hangs around the same seconds I can keep my finger on it so I'm assuming it's a heat issue. The case I was using had good cooling, but a stupid position for the GFX card that prevented it's own fan from getting good circulation, so I tried running it from the top of a static mat. Ran a lot longer but still hung. It still got just as hot. I'm thinking at this point my only option is to go with another card, and ATI doesnt make anything near as good at the moment. Has anyone been able to get this card to run well and not overheat without a cooling system installed?
As a side note, it ran older games like FFXI fine and did not overheat.