YoungGun

I just bought the 9600 a week ago. I am happy with it except when i start to lag. Here is what is happening. I am playing the crysis demo and it's all playing fine a looking awesome, but after playing for like 15 to 20 min I start to lag pretty bad. My setting are on high and my screen size is 1024x768 so it should be fine. I just want to know if you think maybe it is heating up, or maybe my processor can't do the job. My specs are on the side.
Also I am running Vista so of course im using directx 10.

Any help would be appreciated!

Nanogrip

It could be thermal issues that are causing the lag, I remember getting 70+centigrade with the stock 8800gt cooler on 80% fan speed with Crysis (*_*) so I have now in place a Thermalright HR-03 that I bought for my 7900gt. Or it could be a section in the game that is quite demanding.

YoungGun

what would be a good cooler for my card

Nanogrip

Well, I have a Thermalright HR-03 (non-gt version) installed for my gfx card and it is one of the top best air cooler for a gfx card. BUT it is huge and it takes a lot of space. It lowered my temps from the stock cooler by a large margin. My card is clocked 650gpu/1000mem and idled at 50 degrees centigrade, and 70+ when playing Crysis on all high (with very high tweaks, thx tweakguide.com). Now it idles at 39, and 56 when loaded. I use a Vantec pci slot card fan (so the cooling is not optimal, noisy little fellow too) at the lowest fan speed and my room temperature is kept at about 25ish. I use a pci card fan because the HR-03 is so big that it just narrowly misses touching my aftermarket northbridge cooler (HR-05 SLI) and it makes mounting a fan cumbersome. So I recommend you take a look at the HR-03.

nCaine

Probable heat issue i did have it on my last card 6600 GT from Gigabyte . Same thing. \

Now i own Gigabyte 9600 GT , and they done better job with cooling on this one . In crysis at high detail. Smooth with temp after some time of play never reach more then 60 C.

Culd you check what temps are you at when start to lag.


Update: If im not wrong you card have passive cooling . Right ?? And from what i read it looks like you card is a preOC card + passive cooling , and you end up with temps at full load 85 C . And that was point at whit my old 6600 GT started to lag back then.

The graph is from Tweaktown test on 9600 GT`s

Maybe you need some more fans on the case i dunno , dont have exp. with passive colling.

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YoungGun

Well I don't know much about it at all but this is my card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134038

sry for bein a noob

IModAmd

Cpu ... make an bottleneck... and about crysis... sucks alot of viddy power So try to put down your settings Personnaly i run it at Medium 1280 x 1024 Vsync On ... and without AA.

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nCaine

You card have normal cooling not passive .

If you want to find out if this a problem with overheating, you need to check what temps you CPU and GPU (graphic card) have when you start to lag.

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