Alright here is my deal. Right now I am only playing one game that is Dragon Age: Origins. I just reformatted my system less than a week ago. Before I reformatted I never had any issues with running DAO on max everything. Texture on high; graphics on high and maxed resolution. For some reason since I reinstalled everything about 20 minutes into playing my computer shuts-off. Just like from an overheating problem. The only difference between now and then was I did not have the most up-to-date video card drivers. Now I have the latest drivers.
I have done a little reading on this site and others and I have downloaded a CPU temperature monitor and a GPU temp monitor along with RivaTuner. My CPU temp is fine while playing the game even with everything maxed still. My GPU temp is around 110C and 95 to 100 for the second card.
I turned the graphics setting down to medium and the temperature is still well into if not just above the danger zone of 90 - 95C for the GTX 260m.
I use to not us a cooling pad underneath and just tried two different ones in the past 2 days and it still shuts-off while playing the game.
Any thoughts and steps would be appreciated on how to help maintain the temp on the video cards would be great so I can continue playing this game on high settings.
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @2.80GHz
GPU: Dual nVidia GeForce GTX 260M @1024MBs each (SLI enabled)
RAM: 4GBs DDR3 @1333MHz
Display: PnP monitor (native 1920 x 1200 res)
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