GTX260 Over Heating

[BulletProofAfro]

HI guys

I have the Gainward GTX260 Golden Sample and just last week in a blink of an eye, the temps increased by 10c +


It would idle at 35, 37c at default 40% fan duty and now its idling beyond 45c and the gain in temps from idle to max happens quicker and the max temp is a bit higher .

Why has it decided to idle at a higher temp now than before?

The room temp is still the same, its as if the summer has come already for my card temps. In summer you would expect that rise but not now

Fans, thermal paste, not overclocked everything is where it should be and doing what it should be doing except the temps.

Am all out of ideas, if anyone can let me know some good info as to whats going on here

regards

 

[3t3P]

cleaned it?

 

[BulletProofAfro]

ahh yeah man, it is well cleaned i just did it with MX2 paste aswel, i had the arctic on it before, but no better or worse

 

[rolypolyman]

You havn't put those new NV drivers on by any chance, LOL.

 

[BulletProofAfro]

Could it be possible for a bios to screw up? the idle volts of my card have increased to new number? 1.05 1.06 & 1.12 are the volts in Nibitor, could it be running off 1.12 all the time even when its idling at 300mhz when clocked down.

I havnt changed any of these volts or done any kind of volt mod or tweak the bios

 

[thebigak]

Yeah check that you didn't install the faulty drivers and try to keep an eye on the fan speed with GPUZ!

 

[BulletProofAfro]

You havn't put those new NV drivers on by any chance, LOL.

Yup I am using the beta ones 196.34

 

[thebigak]

I know the ATI drivers can play around with the voltages and fan speeds, might be the same for Nvidia cards, so if you installed the faulty drivers it could explain what you are describing.

 

[thebigak]

I think those beta ones were ok, it was the release after that which they pulled.

 

[BulletProofAfro]

Yeah check that you didn't install the faulty drivers and try to keep an eye on the fan speed with GPUZ!

I will give that a go i use HWMonitor, should i stick with that or use GPUZ


Cheers

I think those beta ones were ok, it was the release after that which they pulled.

ahh

 

[Phatzy]

EDIT: never mind

 

[thebigak]

Try uninstalling the beta Nvidia drivers totally and any overclocking utilities and roll back to the latest official version. The beta one only added a bug fix for overclocking Nvidia GPUs.

 

[rolypolyman]

Would that beta driver not be almost the same as the 196.75 given the previous driver was 196.21 and the beta was 196.34 if you know what I mean.

 

[BulletProofAfro]

Try uninstalling the beta Nvidia drivers totally and any overclocking utilities and roll back to the latest official version. The beta one only added a bug fix for overclocking Nvidia GPUs.

Nah same old temps burning away on that version aswell

Would that beta driver not be almost the same as the 196.75 given the previous driver was 196.21 and the beta was 196.34 if you know what I mean.

hehe good question