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Gainward GTX580 High temperature problem

strelok88

strelok88

strelok88

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Hello everybody,

I’m having some temperature issues with my Gainward GTX580 ‘Good Edition’ graphics card and thought I would try to seek advice from the forums.
When my card is idle it runs at a constant 43˚C which I have read is about normal for this card. When it is under load it can run anywhere from 85˚C to 100˚C, this is the part that concerns me.

I believe the average temperature people have been getting from this card while under load is around 85˚C. If I play Company of Heroes for an hour for example, the temperature quickly gets up to 85˚C and stays there. If I play Crysis or Arma 2 on the other hand, the GPU temp rockets to 96˚C within 10 minutes, and in Arma 2’s case, slowly continues to rise.

The card plays games on the highest settings at 1080p beautifully with no lag or frame rate drops, and has never actually crashed or shut down due to the heat. Although, I do keep my eye on Afterburner and quit to desktop at around 98˚C just in case.

Has anybody experienced anything similar? Or am I just being paranoid?

Here are my system specs:

- Case: Xigmatek Asgard Gaming Case
- Power Supply: Corsair 650w PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i7 950 3.20GHz Overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Corsair H70 CPU Cooler
- RAM: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Tri-Channel
- Hard Drive: 1TB HDD
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

If you need any more information just ask, although I am at work for the time being and won’t be able to post any photos or screenshots until I get home tonight. Oh, and few more things, there is an Apache case fan blowing straight onto the card and I haven’t overclocked it.

Any response appreciated as I really want this sorted before BF3. Cheers.
 
Bit toasty that is! Have you removed all the excess dust in your case?

Install MSI afterburner and change your fan profile, 1 basic one is matching c - %, ie 70c = 70% fan speed, All the way upto 85%.

That should bring temps down a bit.
 
Room temp is about 21 degrees. I have been playing with the fan profile for the last few nights and it hardly seems to make any difference to be honest. The best I have found so far starts at around 40% @ 40 degrees, up to 80% @ 80 degrees, and anything above 80 degrees the fans are on 100%. This seems to keep the temp at about 90 degrees while playing Crysis. But I still think this is too hot as my friend has a Twin Frozr and his never goes above 75 degrees.
 
StonedPenguin said:
Bit toasty that is! Have you removed all the excess dust in your case?

Install MSI afterburner and change your fan profile, 1 basic one is matching c - %, ie 70c = 70% fan speed, All the way upto 85%.

That should bring temps down a bit.
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Yeah definitely get MSI Afterburner and set a custom fan profile. My GPU temps were hitting the 85C mark running auto-fan, now I rarely hit the 75C mark even after hours of gameplay - you need to find a sweet spot where the fan speed will maintain a certain temperature, mine is roughly 70-72% fan speed which maintains temperatures of 70-72C with full load.

One other thing to note is the quality of your cable management/air flow in your case. Make sure you dont have cables lumbered anywhere becuase although it may not look like it makes a difference, it certainly impacts on the efficieny of the airflow through the case - poor airflow means hotter air the GPU fan will pull in.

I'm not sure how good Gainwards warranty/RMA service is so its probably best to keep the temps below 80C in order preserve the life of the card. The only other problem I can think is that you have unfortunately bought a card with a crappy TIM job.

For comparison: My EVGA 580 (OC'd to 880/2100) runs 35C idle and 75C max under load.
 
Hmmmm... I never thought of all those cables. My system was bought from Overclockers about 6 months ago and all of the cables are all wrapped up with that mesh that Overclockers use, but it is like spaghetti in there.

The weird thing is that the pc itself seems to run much cooler since I installed this card. My old card was a Gainward GTX460gs, and that did have an airflow problem. It used to fill may case with hot air, causing everything to run hot as the fans were just sucking hot air straight back in. The outside of my computer case was extremely hot to touch. It turned out that my front case fan was dead. Hence the Apache. Now though, the case feels cool and my CPU temp has also dropped considerably. But now according to Afterburner my new GPU is running hotter than ever. Any thoughts?
 
strelok88 said:
Hmmmm... I never thought of all those cables. My system was bought from Overclockers about 6 months ago and all of the cables are all wrapped up with that mesh that Overclockers use, but it is like spaghetti in there.

The weird thing is that the pc itself seems to run much cooler since I installed this card. My old card was a Gainward GTX460gs, and that did have an airflow problem. It used to fill may case with hot air, causing everything to run hot as the fans were just sucking hot air straight back in. The outside of my computer case was extremely hot to touch. It turned out that my front case fan was dead. Hence the Apache. Now though, the case feels cool and my CPU temp has also dropped considerably. But now according to Afterburner my new GPU is running hotter than ever. Any thoughts?
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If as you say, you've set a custom fna profile, your airflow is good through your case and you still get those high temps then it's probably down to shoddy TIM application, dust build up in the GPU fan or just a bad card.

Has the card been overclocked at all? If so try setting it back to default settings - high core voltage will certainly lead to higher temps.
 
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I haven’t oc'd it as I don’t think I have the headroom heat-wise. It I oc'd it now I think it would melt. I have certainly not changed the core voltage.

The card is only 2 weeks old so there is no dust.

I'm unsure what my next move should be as it is now 2 weeks since purchase and Overclockers won’t accept a return until it actually crashes my pc, and as of yet I haven’t let it. Even then they have to make it do it in their machine before they will acknowledge it as a fault. If it doesn’t fault in there machine I have to pay to have it returned to me.

I’m going to try adding some extra vent holes to my case and re-routing as many cables as I can tonight. I would literally cry if it dies halfway through my first game of Battlefield 3 so I’m not giving up on this. I appreciate all of your responses so far.

Cheers.
 
RESULT! I have added some extra vent holes to the side of my case and re-routed some cables that were obscuring fans and vents. The real breakthrough was when I noticed that my Apache case fan was blowing in the opersite direction to the exhaust vent on my video card. Flipped the case fan over, BOOM! A stable 78 degrees on Crysis. Thanks to all, especally Ginger-Menace who naild it in the first reply.
 
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