From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P8c97-0006km-Sa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:08:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39537E079C for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57D6E06D7 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwaa11 with SMTP id a11so3622383gwa.40 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:25:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yC9X4Q3n9wNUk1LQ4VEfytrqLabaTE1LyDyyEEw9nLw=; b=igxyclBidfEkiT+X+hooWUMbl3nvNnudcjwV3wAwECBm6unRw2otkyhQuemNsM8l7y f/b6eouPqhhsYSo+kw2E/8dB0ImFpbeabsrD3M//eO2HLkJs9ghqGKT56CW/8Z5S6xlJ wrjW8ENGbJ5gkYOlw+wr4caKagdzNcVKMCpbw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=f25bA2W7pejep1IaRPx/naIvTFpkIRe8DyjXoAfxYc9r37MmElHpXumW0pyDT8nAih mByg5PYe3o4vcxVONn8r4oxRATzJMYnT+mJuYVLbcL3RuqGXrnOMKCRr6PEz1QYh9bof Q/75D7tGkIx/o4NGFAanBCv45CzsMtkiTy4lQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.169.197 with SMTP id p5mr559262hbe.23.1287591914675; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.162.67 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:25:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CBE6C31.9050607@gmail.com> References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> <4CBDFF4F.3000907@gmail.com> <4CBE33B6.8020405@gmail.com> <4CBE6C31.9050607@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:25:14 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7mtXQptUNZ9ke3J_-LDA06v5pjU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 36f05107-0d09-479a-8496-baafc7e60941 X-Archives-Hash: 74b86f172e44b4dddedb4e84f972625a On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dale wrote: > I'm wondering if the card may be getting hot and slowing down because of > that?=A0 i replaced the heat sink a good while back and I got more than e= nough > cooling on the case.=A0 The heat sink has a fan and maybe it is not turni= ng or > something.=A0 I did blow out the dust a while back and I do have filters = over > the intakes to help some. Some Nvidia cards can go into a slow-motion mode when they overheat, I had that happen on mine (it was a 6000 or 7000 series, I think) when the fan died and I didn't realize it. The slowdown was dramatic in those cases. It would usually happen if I was playing a game or a video, suddenly it would go 2 frames per second. I'd stop the game/video, and even things like opening a window were slow. After a minute or two, everything would be back to normal speed. Eventually I learned that the card was protecting itself by switching to an ultra-slow mode to try to fight the overheating. nvidia-settings may be able to show you the temperature and speeds on your card. You might need to add: Option "coolbits" "1" to the device section in your xorg.conf to get it to show you some of those options if they aren't initially visible.