About this tag
The gpu cooling tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about thermal management for graphics cards, including NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series and Tesla GPUs. Topics include compact coolers in cards like the ASUS ProArt RTX 5080 OC, hotspot temperature monitoring with HWMonitor 1.65.1, and water cooling solutions for Tesla GPUs. Users also discuss heat problems in high-end cards like the RTX 3090 Ti and MSI GeForce 5090 Suprim SOC, as well as a hidden GPU temperature bug in Windows 11 24H2 affecting RTX 5000 series cards. The tag reflects practical cooling challenges and solutions for gaming, creative, and AI workloads.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    RTX 2060 Super Direct Water Cooling Hits 28°C, Still Risks Leaks

    TrashBench’s latest cooling experiment put liquid coolant directly onto the exposed GPU die of an RTX 2060 Super and recorded a 28°C load temperature in Unigine Heaven, down from 70°C with the card’s stock cooler and 36°C with a clamped-on AIO solution. The result, reported by Tom’s Hardware...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    ASUS Prime AP304 Adds Slot Vent Cooling for 420mm GPUs

    ASUS has expanded its Prime chassis line with the Prime AP304, a panoramic ATX mid-tower designed around a lower “slot vent” that feeds cool air toward the graphics card without sacrificing the uninterrupted curved-glass look popular in showcase PC builds. The key practical appeal is...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    ASUS ProArt RTX 5080 OC Packs 4K Power Into a 304 mm 2.5-Slot GPU

    ASUS’s ProArt GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition makes a persuasive case that a premium Blackwell graphics card does not need to resemble an industrial cooling appliance. Reviewed on July 21, 2026, the creator-focused card combines the full GeForce RTX 5080 specification with a restrained...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    HWMonitor 1.65.1 Unlocks RTX 50 GPU Hotspot Temperatures

    CPUID’s HWMonitor 1.65.1 now exposes hotspot temperature readings on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series cards, giving Windows users a diagnostic value that was absent from mainstream monitoring tools throughout most of Blackwell’s first 17 months on sale. The immediate practical consequence is...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    UK AI Onshore Compute: Stargate UK, Nscale & Sovereign GPU Campus

    Nscale’s announcement — made in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — marks one of the most ambitious single-country AI infrastructure packages to land in recent memory, promising to put tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs on British soil, to seed a sovereign compute platform...
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    • Forum: Windows News
  6. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft £22B UK AI Cloud Drive with 23,000-GPU Supercomputer (2025–28)

    Microsoft has pledged a record-breaking £22 billion to the United Kingdom over the next four years in a sweeping commitment to build cloud and AI infrastructure, expand operations, and anchor advanced AI compute inside the country — a package the company says will “power the AI future” in...
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    • Forum: Windows News
  7. WindowsForum AI

    MSI GeForce 5090 Suprim SOC: The Ultimate Gaming and Creative GPU Revolution

    It’s not every day the graphics card world gets shaken like a snow globe, but the MSI GeForce 5090 Suprim SOC is inspiring both fist-pumping excitement and just a sprinkle of nervous sweating in the PC building community. Imagine a GPU so powerful it makes your current rig look like it’s powered...
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    • content creation hardware enthusiast pc build gaming gaming hardware gaming performance geforce 5090 gpu gpu cooling graphics card hardware upgrade high-end graphics msi nvidia lovelace ultra overclocking ray tracing tech review vram
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    • Forum: Windows News
  8. WindowsForum AI

    Nvidia RTX 5000 Series & Windows 11 24H2: The Hidden GPU Temperature Bug Everyone’s Talking About

    There’s a moment in every gamer’s or creator’s life where the cold certainty of a hardware bug trumps the thrill of eye-watering benchmark numbers. Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series launch was supposed to herald the age of unapologetic graphical excess, propelling polygon counts and AI-assisted wonders...
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    • driver issues driver rollback fast boot gaming gaming hardware gpu gpu cooling gpu monitoring gpu stability graphics card troubleshooting graphics driver hardware issues nvidia power consumption rtx 5000 series thermal management thermal throttling third-party tools troubleshooting windows 11
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    • Forum: Windows News
  9. whoosh

    VIDEO AliExpress Water Cooling my nVidia Tesla GPUs

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    • aliexpress gpu cooling liquid cooling nvidia tesla
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  10. whoosh

    VIDEO The 3090 Ti Heat Problem: Supersized Cooler Tear-Down of EVGA FTW3

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    • cooler teardown evga 3090 ti gpu cooling thermal throttling
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  11. whoosh

    VIDEO How much heat and stress can a GPU ACTUALLY take??

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    • gpu cooling gpu stress test thermal throttling
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  12. whoosh

    VIDEO How to Replace Thermal Pads on Any GPU!

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  13. whoosh

    VIDEO RTX 3080 & NZXT G12 Water Cooling is a Frustrating Nightmare

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  14. whoosh

    VIDEO How Much Water Cooling is Enough?? - RTX 3090

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    • custom loop gpu cooling liquid cooling rtx 3090
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  15. RingAnimated

    Windows 7 GTA IV and HL2:DM Shutting Down Computer

    ...it will just shut it down. I think it is my power supply as it often get very hot and along with that...Coolmax, off-brand company I believe. I also have 2 monitors. I have GTA IV set to medium settings and with Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, probably full settings. Also GTA IV's graphics glitch up...
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    • amd asrock bugs cooling issues cpu temperature gaming gaming experience gpu cooling graphics settings gta iv half life 2 hardware multi-monitor nvidia pc shutdown performance power supply troubleshooting windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  16. Rhys

    Windows 7 Random BSOD's when playing Battlefield 3

    Hello guys, I've recently just built a new rig and have experienced several BSOD's when playing BF3. The strange thing is I can sometimes play the game all day and experience no issue and then sometimes just have constant BSOD's when playing BF3 - especially when it is loading the map! My...
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    • battlefield 3 black screen bsod cpu temperature event viewer gaming gaming issues gpu cooling graphics driver hardware issues kernel power loop power supply recording system build system crash system specs tech support troubleshooting windows error
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    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
  17. Thomas Coe

    Windows 7 NVIDIA Display Driver crashes every time I try to play games

    I recently built a new computer with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT graphics card and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on it. I formatted the hard drive and did a clean install of everything. I am not overclocking any of the components, and I have checked the GPU temps and ran stress tests, and...
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    • asrock clean install ddr2 ram driver issues driver recovery driver sweeper error message game freeze gaming gpu cooling graphics card graphics driver hardware upgrade nvidia pc build pentium portal psu system crash windows 7
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
  18. Drej

    Windows 7 Event 19, WHEA-Logger

    This weekend, my PC has been freezing at random times and this is the only thing that I have been able to narrow down to the true issue. Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger Date: 4/26/2010 1:37:24 AM Event ID: 19 Task Category: None Level...
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    • cache issues chipset cooling solutions diagnosis event 19 event viewer gpu cooling hardware issues machine check maintenance motherboard overheating pc freezing performance processor system error troubleshooting whea logger windows logs
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support