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Can a motherboard cause a gpu to overheat ?

pinki104

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I have just purchased and installed a R9 290 due to my previous cards running too hot but this card is doing the exact same thing and running hot enough to shut down my system. The last 3 cards i have had gave me this issue. GTX 580 / 7970 / R9 290. I have had the same motherboard for all of these cards (ASUS P8P67 PRO)

I have formatted countless times and i have also formatted today after installing the card.

I have the latest catalyst drivers 9.14.10.0.1029 Catalyst 14.4

I leave the side of my case open and there is plenty of room for circulation

On 50% fan speed the gpu idles at 60-65c
 
Can you have GPU-Z running for about 5 minutes 'as seen in my pic' and upload a screen shot for us to look at? thanks :)

 
sure, i dropped the fan speed down to the same as yours and here is the temps i got with just opera open and skype idle in the background, about 2min after taking this screenshot i had to increase the fan speeds again because the temps rose to 90c

 
Can you post a pic of card in case? Where it normally sits.

Despite having the side off, with three cards doing the same, I would be looking at air flow first.
 
There is plenty of room below and above the card, the card seems to run hot with any sort of graphics, on opera when youtube is open it runs super hot aswell as games

 
Clean your case! :)

How much space is there behind the case?

Is that a blower style card?

What front intake fans are there? And is it clean up front?

Whatmcase is that by the way?
 
Judging from the state of your case, I would guess your case doesn't have any dust-filter installed for the intake fans, and with the rad of your AIO CPU cooler, I think it is your CPU overheating that's causing the problem...

You definitely need to give that rad a good clean...

Also, get some dust-filter for your intake fans if you don't have!
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Judging from the state of your case, I would guess your case doesn't have any dust-filter installed for the intake fans, and with the rad of your AIO CPU cooler, I think it is your CPU overheating that's causing the problem...

You definitely need to give that rad a good clean...

Also, get some dust-filter for your intake fans if you don't have!
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Michaeljcox24 said:
Dude, buy yourself one of these:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-010-OP&groupid=702&catid=1568

They are an essential if you're a PC builder. Blow out the rad on the AIO cooler, and then blow out the graphics card.
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Your case is dusty, people underestimate how much that contributes to heat.

Also your card is blow-type- that means you need to dust it more often than others. Try to make it routine- for example I spray mine with compressed air every 2 weeks when I do a clean of the whole house.
 
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eyetrip said:
If that is just with desktop and opera, it looks like something is actually utilising you gpu quite actively.

Do you have the same with opera closed?

And what program's are inning in the background?
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I would be looking into this. Your card's memory speed hasn't dropped at all in the graph, and it's spending a lot of it's time with the core ramped up as well. How many monitors have you got attached to the card? If it's more than 1, that could explain the memory clock speed not dropping. If you have no programs other than GPUz running, does the speed drop to 300 Core & 150 memory? If not, sounds like something is using your GPU - any background programs running? I've heard of Bitcoin mining programs that can be sneaked onto PCs causing this problem, and a year or so ago my youngest installed some free game, and it turned out to came along with a P2P program to share the installer that actually caused both GPUs to wake and run at full speed!
 
With the side of the case open, a 76c idle temp sounds a bit stange to me. I think the case might be way too close to the wall or something.

Also, as others have said, you do not want dust in your case.
 
Do you have a 120+Hz Monitor, or multi monitor setup?
Try it @ 60Hz. Also in windows energy options balanced mode.
Disable hardware acceleration in opera/videos.
Reset everything in afterburner and CCC, you can also try deinstalling MSI AB.
 
Hi yes my case is abit dusty, the gpu is brand new so i dont think it would need a clean already as the fans are still clean. i see what you mean about the cpu rad but you cant see it without the flash from the phone :D although when i put my hand on it there is no heat so im not sure if it really is that causing my gpu to overheat

also i have 2 monitors connected at 60mhz both syncmasters

what is the best way to clean the rad as its a corair h70? watercooling i think and i have never taken it apart
 
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