{"id":3209,"date":"2021-11-03T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3209"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:20:00","slug":"nvidia-geforce-420m-video-card-overheating","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/nvidia-geforce-420m-video-card-overheating\/84445.html","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia GeForce 420M Video Card Overheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been some time now that my graphics card (whenever i play a game) overheats i&#8217;ve checked the temperature and it goes over 70 even in the menus of SC2 (works as a benchmark) i know this graphics card its not for gaming but it didnt happen before, once when i was using it alot of dust fell on the keyboar and the screen and im guessing that dust is most likely the problem as i see no artifacts and other weird stuff happening while gaming, i dont use this for gaming but it bothers me alot and i want to know if something like this has happened to any of you.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the specs<\/p>\n<p>Intel core i5-480M<br \/>\nNvidia GeForce 420M<br \/>\n6 Gb of ram DDR<br \/>\n640 HDD<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures lately<br \/>\n40\u00b0C idle (videocard) and 70\u00b0C+ when gaming<br \/>\n50\u00b0C CPU<\/p>\n<p>Also the frames of the games drop ALOT lately too \ud83d\ude42 and im thinking of taking the pc apart and checking if some of that dust somehow made it to the GPU and its keeping the heat in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":10},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}