As the Newegg link shows, it IS passive. :-) As such, the first thing to
monitor are the GPU temperatures. If they are high (approaching 100C), then
improve case ventilation.

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"Bill Smith" wrote in message
...
Might not be related, but when my sons fan died on his video card, it
would re-boot at random...usually while he was gaming ! He ran it like
that for about 2 months. I replaced the fan and he's still usuing that
card...a real prize that one...lol

I'm curious if you have one of the XFX cards that is passive. If so, I
hope you have very good airflow in your case...FYI !

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:01:48 -0600, "Albert Wiersch"
wrote:

I've experienced several spontaneous system reboots since installing a new
XFX 7950GT. I bought this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150189

Any ideas?

My thoughts are either the card is defective or the drivers.

I am overclocking my Core 2 Duo CPU only but did not have this problem
with
my previous 7900GS card.

Albert