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Creative SB Live gets REALLY hot
I was going to put this in the Hardware forum since may people seem to be having probs with this card and the G400.
But this is purely Creative related and belongs here and I would doubt this is a resolve for many of those problems.
When I play games (even at say 75F/23C ambient temp) the SB Live card get extremely hot, as hot as a V2 gets. If you are aware how hot the V2 chips get then you will understand what I am saying.
If not leave you case open, start a game using the V2.
After a couple of minutes, touch the V2 chips. Surprised? I'll bet you can't keep your finger on the chip for more than 10 sec....unless you are thick skinned or have chubby fingers and can't reach the texel fx or pixel fx chips. The same applies to the main sound chip near the PCI slot on the SBLive.
Whereas if my G400 were any cooler during gaming, it would be snap frozen..... or called Frank
.....ahem.
Obviously if Creative thought this was an issue with stability they would have incorporated a heatsink design on the main chip.
I just wanted to point this out to those unaware of the heat generated by the SB Live in hope that this might benefit someone considering efficient cooling to reduce heat related instability.
I have a 5" fan blowing on my V2SLI/SBLive/G400 cards. I write this straight after a system freeze during a game, having forgotten to switch that fan on (usually switch it on for gaming).
Apon restart I descided to post this while it was fresh in my mind and wonder how many people out there may have probs simply due to heat buildup.
I have my system bus at 100Mhz so the heat generated is not a result of overclocking.
Hope this helps.
But this is purely Creative related and belongs here and I would doubt this is a resolve for many of those problems.
When I play games (even at say 75F/23C ambient temp) the SB Live card get extremely hot, as hot as a V2 gets. If you are aware how hot the V2 chips get then you will understand what I am saying.
If not leave you case open, start a game using the V2.
After a couple of minutes, touch the V2 chips. Surprised? I'll bet you can't keep your finger on the chip for more than 10 sec....unless you are thick skinned or have chubby fingers and can't reach the texel fx or pixel fx chips. The same applies to the main sound chip near the PCI slot on the SBLive.
Whereas if my G400 were any cooler during gaming, it would be snap frozen..... or called Frank
.....ahem.Obviously if Creative thought this was an issue with stability they would have incorporated a heatsink design on the main chip.
I just wanted to point this out to those unaware of the heat generated by the SB Live in hope that this might benefit someone considering efficient cooling to reduce heat related instability.
I have a 5" fan blowing on my V2SLI/SBLive/G400 cards. I write this straight after a system freeze during a game, having forgotten to switch that fan on (usually switch it on for gaming).
Apon restart I descided to post this while it was fresh in my mind and wonder how many people out there may have probs simply due to heat buildup.
I have my system bus at 100Mhz so the heat generated is not a result of overclocking.
Hope this helps.
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