GPU fan revving question

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Briefly touched upon in another thread, I'm suffering from random but frequent fan revving of what I'm now almost sure is the GPU (the pitch matches it).

I see nothing in afterburner though.

Only happens (and it started) when playing AC Odyssey. Ran Hellblade and nothing (likely different loads on the card, I imagine).

Just on the unlikely off chance, has anyone else seen it in Odyssey?

Asus Strix 1080
 
Change your fan curve. Simple as that. You can then set the check spaces (IE when it checks and changes the RPM) to as long as you like in ms, IIRC.

It sounds to me like your GPU is hitting a certain temp, then the game drops off and it's then revving back down and so on. Laughably the loading screen on FO76 hits about 2500 FPS and my card heats up like crazy. And that is just loading lol.

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Right, see where it says "Fan speed update"? that is where you change the time it checks. Mine is set to 5 seconds ATM. If you increase it to ten it would probably solve your revving issues.
 
That could also be the asus software that runs the fan curve , i used to get it on my rampage if i was running the fans on there minimum speed , i raised the fan curve a little (3-4 percent) and it stopped
 
Holy crap I must thank you for posting this thread.

It turns out my Vega fans were stuck at 11%. That would explain many of the issues I've been having. Apparently if you set up a fan profile in AB and Wattman neither of them work.

Sorted now. That might explain why I was only getting brief boost clocks of 1500 max.
 
Holy crap I must thank you for posting this thread.

It turns out my Vega fans were stuck at 11%. That would explain many of the issues I've been having. Apparently if you set up a fan profile in AB and Wattman neither of them work.

Sorted now. That might explain why I was only getting brief boost clocks of 1500 max.

You're welcome ha ha! Glad you got it sorted. What's wattman?

@Eddie can imagine and thanks
 
It's basically everything you need for an AMD GPU, I just didn't know it because I didn't open it with my Fury X.

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It has 7 or 8 P states for GPU clocks. Meaning it will clock down unless you need more FPS. Obviously full tilt means full clocks (like if you run 240hz or something else daft etc).

Then it uses a very similar tool to Afterburner for the fans (see the thing at the bottom). Problem was? I had set them both up, so neither was working. In MSI AB the fan was greyed out at 11% and was not spinning up at all in games. Meaning I was limited to about 1300mhz, but worse the GPU was getting hot AF. It doesn't seem to go over 75c ever, but man if you touched that cold plate it would literally burn your skin lmao.

So it's noisier in here now, but far cooler.
 
Ouch! Very happy for you man!!

Setting it to 10.000 didn't solve my issue. Windtunnel revving stays.

Temps are 58-59, rarely 60C, RPM hovers around 2190 @ 60% fan speed (it matches the temp 1:1),again no visible only audible revving *scratches head*

Edit: doubled my AC Odyssey session and it persists alright. In the extreme case I have warrenty until November. Not that replacements are available so who knows what will happen.

And I reached a new all time low in Odyssey: at level 43 I got killed by chickens... Jumping and pecking me to death. Quite hilarious!
 
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Have you tried just pegging the fan at like 80% with no auto and checking that fixes it to ensure it's definitely the GPU fan?

Odyssey could be putting more load on than Kombuster, but if it's revving you're hearing it's more likely that the load is varying significantly over short spaces of time(Maybe switching from gameplay to menu/pause/inventory), you can see GPU load/Activity from OCing tools like Wattman or from Task Manager (On modern updates on Windows 10), you'll want it in graph format so you can see dips over time. AMD's drivers plots these alongside fan speeds, temps, ect on same graph which is pretty useful here so presumably equivalent Asus software or something does a similar job.
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If that's the issue, just make sure your fan curve is straighter (No steep changes or 2nd-order gradients, IE try and keep the rate of change constant). The thing someone else mentioned, of a speed being too low, is also a prominent issue with voltage controlled fans(2 or 3-pin) below around 40% or PWM-controlled fans(4-pin) once the %age off of the duty cycle becomes equivalent to the power cycle of the fan(1 revolution, so at say 600RPM the fan does 10 cycles a second for a 0.1 send cycle, and if that speeds reached at say a 20% of a duty cycle(IE power is only turned on for 20% of the time the fans running and completely off the rest in a rapid fashion) and the PWM cycle frequency is too low and the fan has a low moment of inertia (essentially weight here) then it could lead to inconsistent speeds as well.

It could also be that the fans settling at a speed that causes first or second order harmonic motion or resonates with other components (IE the frequency of the fans matches the natural frequency of whatever it's attached too) but that's a rare one especially to repeat consistently.
 
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Have you tried just pegging the fan at like 80% with no auto and checking that fixes it to ensure it's definitely the GPU fan?

Odyssey could be putting more load on than Kombuster, but if it's revving you're hearing it's more likely that the load is varying significantly over short spaces of time(Maybe switching from gameplay to menu/pause/inventory), you can see GPU load/Activity from OCing tools like Wattman or from Task Manager (On modern updates on Windows 10), you'll want it in graph format so you can see dips over time. AMD's drivers plots these alongside fan speeds, temps, ect on same graph which is pretty useful here so presumably equivalent Asus software or something does a similar job.
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If that's the issue, just make sure your fan curve is straighter (No steep changes or 2nd-order gradients, IE try and keep the rate of change constant). The thing someone else mentioned, of a speed being too low, is also a prominent issue with voltage controlled fans(2 or 3-pin) below around 40% or PWM-controlled fans(4-pin) once the %age off of the duty cycle becomes equivalent to the power cycle of the fan(1 revolution, so at say 600RPM the fan does 10 cycles a second for a 0.1 send cycle, and if that speeds reached at say a 20% of a duty cycle(IE power is only turned on for 20% of the time the fans running and completely off the rest in a rapid fashion) and the PWM cycle frequency is too low and the fan has a low moment of inertia (essentially weight here) then it could lead to inconsistent speeds as well.

It could also be that the fans settling at a speed that causes first or second order harmonic motion or resonates with other components (IE the frequency of the fans matches the natural frequency of whatever it's attached too) but that's a rare one especially to repeat consistently.

Wee update as I was low on time; setting the fans to a fixed 70% (higher than they'd reach on auto), the issue showed itself way less. So you're into something here, thanks.
 
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