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Hi...Major problem i have borrowed a GPU from my m8 which kinda helps.....but today i installed my Geforce fx5200 128mb and i played Vietcong with it to remember what it was like to play with it..and the reason i dont have it in is because it used to overheat..but i didnt know it was that hot..when the game froze as i knew it would i rebooted my pc and then shutdown and i took my Geforce out and i actually scolded my hand on the heatsink..i really dont think it should be that hot...when i first bought it... it used to play games fine for hours on end but all of a sudden it just used to cut out after 1 minute...why could it be that hot..any help would be grateful

are you overclocking it ? if so that would be probably a reason. Next is did you install heat sink securely onto the GPU. Also consider having a third party heatsink for a Graphic card , there are many around.

No i have never O/C'd my card it just happened about 6 months of having it i could play a game all day but then one time it just didnt work for more than 1 minute..The heatsink was already installed onto the card when i bought it..and also i can look into the 3rd party heatsink but im not sure its going to be worth it...i could seriously cook an Egg on my card....

This is what you can do for a over heating