MinimumAttic410

Yea my sff case also doesnt have case fan. I believe big GPU heatsink is the key.

Yea it is clear now. it is using similar heatsink with my GT730. double size thick heatsink makes huge difference.

looking at Gigabyte GT 710 2GD5 images on google, it seems to have a fan on heatsink. so it is an advantage in this case. ASUS card i have has slimmer heatsink and passive cooling. ASUS GT 710 2GD5 SL BRK > passive cooling - single slot size heatsink (terrible thermals in my sff case) ASUS GT 730 2GD5 SL BRK > passive cooling - double slot size heatsink (reasonable thermals in my same sff case) i believe your Gigabyte card is either double slot size card or using a fan. well looking at Lian-Li micro-ATX case images, it has pretty space for components and airflow.

if this is the case you are using, it is even smaller than my SFF case. surprised you getting very low temps in this case. is something wrong with my setup?

it must be ATX case with good airflow.

well my pc case is old core 2 duo SFF lenovo thinkcentre A/M57 : https://www.newegg.com/lenovo-m57-business-desktops-workstations/p/N82E16883798350 it doesnt have good airflow considering there is only oddly positioned 1x 80mm cpu fan and psu fan. since GT 710 has overheating problem, i am using GT 730 nowadays (https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/asus/gt730-sl-2gd5-brk/). it has double-slot sized thicker heatsink but still passive cooling. i am getting 28-35C idle temps and max 70C on gaming with GT730. so you say overheating problem with GT 710 is normal while gaming? but i am playing old XP games only. i know these cards are not gamer cards but games i play shouldnt be so demanding. another example, before this core2duo case, i was using GT 710 on my other SFF lenovo thinkcentre M92p model (3rd gen i5). it is slightly bigger, more space and airflow with extra 80mm exhaust fan. i was getting 25-30C idle temps, and around 60-65C on load. still i cant get why there are too much heat difference between 2 cases. now my only concern is heat except driver issue with my GT 710. only reason i insist using GT 710 is the core2duo sff pc i got recently to make it XP gaming machine for old games. I know standard ATX case would be much better for airlow and card selection but I like small form factor more.

it also doesnt support GT710 natively > https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/83083/en-us/

it is low-profile passive cooling card : https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/asus/gt710-sl-2gd5-brk/ using it on my Lenovo ThinkCentre core 2 duo SFF pc.

Overheating is the problem now regardless of driver :/ I again put new thermal paste, a bit thicker than earlier this time but still card is damn heating too much after several minutes game play. Over 80C even 90C. When I touch the heatsink, it is burning my fingers. This is not good.

Yea but it is still poor card and low-profile, i would expect 710 runs cooler. reaching over 90C doesnt make sense at all. and NFS most wanted is not demanding game. it doesnt even support HD resolutions.

iCafe 347.26 driver didnt crash with GT 710, but crashed GT 730 (which is natively supported). I believe 344.75 might be most stable driver for both. I dont know why GT 710 is heating that much. it is weaker card comparing GT 730. while GT 730 getting hardly over 70C by heavy use (gaming), GT 710 jumps over 90C. I already replaced thermal paste. Maybe it is using more resource to be able handle graphics - struggling and heating the chip more than GT 730.

what OSD shows is correct, around 1.2GB ram (total ram is 4GB DDR2 in the pc). I already lowered some settings in the game such as no Anti-Aliasing. but other details are full. game resolution is 1024x768 even monitor resolution is 1680x1050. Dont know much about CUDA, isnt it automatically managed by GPU? when i use non-supported (modded) drivers, GPU-Z doesnt show CUDA enabled. dont know why. and it is not summer yet. Room temp is around 21-22. i replaced thermal paste (Arctic MX-4) on GT710 few weeks ago, dont know why it is overheating that much. what temps others experiencing?

Now installed iCafe driver - 347.26-espresso-icafe-winxp-international.exe GPU-Z shows OpenGL version 4.5 3dmark2001se, didnt cause any freeze issue at 1st test. but needs more testing. EDIT: terrible high temps while gaming : EDIT2: ran 3dmark2001se benchmark 2nd time, no freeze at all. still need more time to be sure. But high GPU temps are concerning.

I will try. thanks.

Nope. I didnt try it. What difference does it make?