Hi, I recently noticed an unusual heating issue with my stock Gigabyte 680 2GB that I purchased at launch a couple of years back. It has never even been overclocked, but it's had plenty of use and has been rock solid, maxing almost all games at 1080p at 60FPS with no actual issues in games (no artifacts, etc) and is still as quiet as the day I first installed it.
When I first got it I would check temps a lot and it would generally idle at 45C, going into the low 70C's at high load. The other day I checked it again on a whim and it was up to 68C on idle, even only after my PC being switched on recently with GPU usage at 0%.
(I'm using both Aida 64 and Nvidia System Monitor to gauge temperatures.)
It's still playing games perfectly, and just to test the max temp I could get it to under normal use, even with those high idle temps was around 83C in BF3, so still well within operational use, but massively over what it should be.The weird thing is that I've noticed that when I very first turn my PC on, my idle temps are around 45C as they should be - but within half an hour or so they go up to around 68C even with just web browsing.
I suspected it could be a virus or even some kind of remote bitcoin farming using my 680 (if that's even possible?) I use MSE and Malwarebytes, both of which are updated and have had recent scans. I did have a security issue with a long dormant Apple ID account which I've now closed completely, but other than that no security issues of note.
I've opened my PC to check for dust, etc, and the card looks pretty much brand new, without any dust in the fans at all. I also haven't changed any fan settings at all and the fans are still operating just fine as I can tell.
I'm still under warranty but am pretty sure the card is fine, I'm almost certain a RMA wouldn't yield any faults. It's idling right now at 68C with 39% fan use at 1400 RPM, but according to Nvidia System Monitor the GPU use is at 0%, the warm air expelling from my rig suggests otherwise.
CPU idle temp is around 35C and I have decent ventilation in my rig, with 2 120mm fans in a push-pull set up venting out the back. At the 45C idle temp the air that vents is actually cool and I remember that being something that impressed me a lot when I first got it, and that I'd check frequently.
My hunch tells me the card itself is fine and that this is a software issue or even some kind of malicious problem as per my remote bitcoin mining theory.
Nvidia System Monitor reports the same temperature as AIDA 64 but still with 0% GPU use - it just doesn't seem that is plausible given the temps it's generating.
I don't know how long this has been going on, as even at 83C the card is barely audible, but clearly something is making it reach these higher than normal temps, and I'm thinking it's possibly something malicious.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
When I first got it I would check temps a lot and it would generally idle at 45C, going into the low 70C's at high load. The other day I checked it again on a whim and it was up to 68C on idle, even only after my PC being switched on recently with GPU usage at 0%.
(I'm using both Aida 64 and Nvidia System Monitor to gauge temperatures.)
It's still playing games perfectly, and just to test the max temp I could get it to under normal use, even with those high idle temps was around 83C in BF3, so still well within operational use, but massively over what it should be.The weird thing is that I've noticed that when I very first turn my PC on, my idle temps are around 45C as they should be - but within half an hour or so they go up to around 68C even with just web browsing.
I suspected it could be a virus or even some kind of remote bitcoin farming using my 680 (if that's even possible?) I use MSE and Malwarebytes, both of which are updated and have had recent scans. I did have a security issue with a long dormant Apple ID account which I've now closed completely, but other than that no security issues of note.
I've opened my PC to check for dust, etc, and the card looks pretty much brand new, without any dust in the fans at all. I also haven't changed any fan settings at all and the fans are still operating just fine as I can tell.
I'm still under warranty but am pretty sure the card is fine, I'm almost certain a RMA wouldn't yield any faults. It's idling right now at 68C with 39% fan use at 1400 RPM, but according to Nvidia System Monitor the GPU use is at 0%, the warm air expelling from my rig suggests otherwise.
CPU idle temp is around 35C and I have decent ventilation in my rig, with 2 120mm fans in a push-pull set up venting out the back. At the 45C idle temp the air that vents is actually cool and I remember that being something that impressed me a lot when I first got it, and that I'd check frequently.
My hunch tells me the card itself is fine and that this is a software issue or even some kind of malicious problem as per my remote bitcoin mining theory.
Nvidia System Monitor reports the same temperature as AIDA 64 but still with 0% GPU use - it just doesn't seem that is plausible given the temps it's generating.
I don't know how long this has been going on, as even at 83C the card is barely audible, but clearly something is making it reach these higher than normal temps, and I'm thinking it's possibly something malicious.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
