EVGA GTX 980Ti Hot

Dawelio

Dawelio

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Hey guys,

So I'm a bit worried here over my GPU and thought I'd ask you for your opinions etc on it.

The other day my GPU was running around 35-45C meanwhile I was browsing the web, watching movies etc and then going to about 65C while gaming. Fair temps me thinks.

Now hot weather has fallen upon us, and now while browsing etc it's at 65C, while gaming, it's at 65C. Only the GPU fan spins up, only difference.

I did change front fan today to see if there was a difference, from an Corsair AF to an Corsair SP fan. As I already have an SP fan at the front bottom placement, and it was moving more air than the AF above. And the SP had an HDD cage right next to it, which the top AF doesnt. It has free space straight to the GPU.

Now my question to you guys are, is this normal?... considering the temps outside are around 30C and about 26-30C in my room. Even my whine fridge which can go down to 12C minimum, can't even go that low, stays at around 18C.

Do you think it's something to do with my GPU, that it may be faulty or is it something that I shouldn't be too worried about?...

Here's a picture of how it looks inside my PC at the moment, only that the top front fan is an SP and not an AF as in the picture:

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I did also change my refresh rate in the Nvidia Controlpanel from 60Hz to 144Hz on my ASUS ROG Swift, if that makes any difference?...

Thanks,
Chrazey
 
I'm sitting at 40C on my GPU which is normally at room temp (+2C maybe) my room is at 30 right now and its at 40C like said before, it's def. the hot weather. I just have the bonus that I have the rajhintek morpheus with 2 120mm fans running at near 100% with a blower cooler I'd be much hotter.
Anyways I'd have an eye on it and see if it normalises when the hotness disappears finally.
 
Yes that sounds normal. It's just you live in Sweden and you guys aren't used to the heat. A Swede friend of mine complains that his 3 780Tis and 2011 cpu are going too hot....
 
If it's 65'c while not gaming then something else is using the GPU and when you say the GPU fan only spins up at 65'c when gaming are you sure ? I'm asking as reference 980 Ti's do not have a zero DB fan mode.

Also have you checked task manager ?

A 980 Ti when just browsing the web should only get to around 40'c and that's taking the hot weather into account.
 
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It is an blower style card and yes I can see through Corsair Link that the 980Ti's fan spins up from about 1100rpm to about 2000-2500rpm while gaming.

I have task manager up all the time haha... but most have the "performance" tab, with CPU usage, ram usage etc open. And I'm not sure what application could cause that kind of a heavy GPU load other than a game. Can 2 Youtube videos do that? :huh:

Dice Hunter said:
A 980 Ti when just browsing the web should only get to around 40'c and that's taking the hot weather into account.
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Exactly my point and thought...

And yes, you are correct Thelosouvlakia my friend, we Swede's aren't used to 30+C haha! ^_^
 
It's 22'c ambient where I am at the moment but change that to 30'c for this example.

My Titan X *Pretty much a 980 Ti* on auto fan gets to 34'c when browsing the web, Add another 8'c to account for a theoretical 30'c ambient and it's still only sitting at 42'c while watching youtube.
 
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^What resolution are you on then?

Considering Chrazey is using a 1440p swift + an additional monitor.
 
Dice Hunter said:
It's 22'c ambient where I am at the moment but change that to 30'c for this example.

My Titan X *Pretty much a 980 Ti* on auto fan gets to 34'c when browsing the web, Add another 8'c to account for a theoretical 30'c ambient and it's still only sitting at 42'c while watching youtube.
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Exactly... so I'm wondering, IS it really the hot weather or maybe a faulty card in some way?...

Cause running at 63-65C while only on Chrome, with Teamspeak 3, Skype (no video), Spotify and a few smaller programs running... is just not looking right in my eyes :(

TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.8.4 also showing the same, GPU Temp at 63C, Fan speed at 25%, Fan Speed at 1178RPM, Memory Used 490MB and lastly Power Consumption at 28.7% TDP at highest I've seen it go.

Not sure if that information is to any good, but anyway...
 
Chrazey said:
Exactly... so I'm wondering, IS it really the hot weather or maybe a faulty card in some way?...

Cause running at 63-65C while only on Chrome, with Teamspeak 3, Skype (no video), Spotify and a few smaller programs running... is just not looking right in my eyes :(
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Set up a 1:1 fan curve i.e if it hits 30'c your fan does 30%, 40'c does 40% etc etc...
 
Card sounds fine to me, it's purely down to high ambient temperatures and the fan profile.

You could set a custom curve but I don't see the point tbh, it will just make it louder when idling.

JR
 
JR23 said:
Card sounds fine to me, it's purely down to high ambient temperatures and the fan profile.

You could set a custom curve but I don't see the point tbh, it will just make it louder when idling.

JR
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65'c idle temp is not normal even if ambient temps are 30'c and the fan is set to auto.

Yesterday in my area it was 32'c for around 3 hours, Idle temps on my GPU were mid 40's with no custom fan curve i.e set to auto and with all case fans set to silent via the bios for quiet running and a TX is pretty much the same when compared to a Ti in that regard.

Right now I am seeing temps of 39'c with the fan on auto while watching youtube and an ambient currently of 23'c, Add another 7'c for a theoretical 30'c and it's still only at 46'c, Add maybe 5'c to take 144Hz 3D clocks into consideration and we're still only looking at 51'c at idle.
 
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Hmmm... if you guys say that the temperatures don't look normal, bad thermal paste application? I think EVGA was one of those manufacturers complaints have been heard about very thick layer of paste on the die...
 
Dice Hunter said:
65'c idle temp is not normal even if ambient temps are 30'c and the fan is set to auto.

Yesterday in my area it was 32'c for around 3 hours, Idle temps on my GPU were mid 40's with no custom fan curve i.e set to auto and with all case fans set to silent via the bios for quiet running and a TX is pretty much the same when compared to a Ti in that regard.

Right now I am seeing temps of 39'c with the fan on auto while watching youtube and an ambient currently of 23'c, Add another 7'c for a theoretical 30'c and it's still only at 46'c, Add maybe 5'c to take 144Hz 3D clocks into consideration and we're still only looking at 51'c at idle.
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If it's set to be passive up to 65°C then under such conditions it's unsurprising that it sits idling just below that threshold. As a passive heatsink the reference cooler isn't the best design with quite a modest surface area all enclosed within a shroud.

If you have yours set so the fan kicks in at 30°C then of course it's going to idle at a much lower temperature. (EVGA reference curve may be different to yours)

JR
 
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So I downloaded MSI afterburner and set a custom fan profile, to 30C at 30% fan speed, 60C at 60%, 80C at 80% and 100C at 100%.

Now it's at 47C with 2255RPM :)
 
JR23 said:
If it's set to be passive up to 65°C then under such conditions it's unsurprising that it sits idling just below that threshold. As a passive heatsink the reference cooler isn't the best design with quite a modest surface area all enclosed within a shroud.

If you have yours set so the fan kicks in at 30°C then of course it's going to idle at a much lower temperature. (EVGA reference curve may be different to yours)

JR
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Read it again, I said I had mine on AUTO.

Also the reference 980 Ti that Chrazey has from EVGA isn't setup to be passive, The fan spins all the time like any other reference card unless you mod the bios.

Chrazey said:
So I downloaded MSI afterburner and set a custom fan profile, to 30C at 30% fan speed, 60C at 60%, 80C at 80% and 100C at 100%.

Now it's at 47C with 2255RPM :)
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Just a thought Chrazey but when you swapped the cooler of the 980 Ti to the one off the Titan X did you put enough thermal compound on or maybe too much ?
 
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Dice Hunter said:
Just a thought Chrazey but when you swapped the cooler of the 980 Ti to the one off the Titan X did you put enough thermal compound on or maybe too much ?
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I didn't at all... I simply only removed the front silver part and the mirror shroud part. The heatsink and fan I left attached as didn't wanna touch those, due to didn't wanna re-paste the GPU.

EDIT, give me a second and ill post a picture of it.

EDIT 2: Here's a picture of the TX shroud I got from Asperatis, but this is how my 980Ti looked like. Never touched the fan nor the heatsink itself. Only the silver parts and changed them out for the TX's black parts.

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Hence the fan on my card is silver, like the orginal one and not the black like TX have.
 
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Ahh ok.

Maybe EVGA mucked up the bios then as it still shouldn't be 65'c while browsing chrome even on an auto fan profile like I mentioned before.
 
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