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GFX Card fans don't seem to speed up....

Scania

Scania

Scania

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I have two GTX 580's in SLI, notoriously power hungry and they generate a lot of heat, I've noticed after a friend came over that his card audibly spools up when its working hard (GTA V etc) and you hear the fans spool down again once its idle, thing is, mine don't!

I can raise the fan speed and do before gaming vis MSI Afterburner but surely they should do this automatically? Instead, my fans seem to increase slightly if I don't manually set them but they turn no where near fast enough and I still get top card temps well up in the 90's which I don't want.

Am I missing something? Should I use something other than afterburner?

Any thoughts appreciated. :)
 
The noise depends on the type of cooler used and depending on the type of chip and firmware from the manufacturer will depend on the cards fan speed (without using MSI AB).
 
Gregster said:
The noise depends on the type of cooler used and depending on the type of chip and firmware from the manufacturer will depend on the cards fan speed (without using MSI AB).
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Hmm, I've tried just running with drivers and nothing like afterburner and both cards fry (to the point where the top card will throttle) one is a two slot EVGA which exhausts out of the back of the case the bottom is a three slot Asus Direct CuII which despite having a huge cooler and fan setup vents into the case, very little warm air comes out of the rear of the card at all.

I guess running two different 580's isn't helping matters. :/
 
Scania said:
Hmm, I've tried just running with drivers and nothing like afterburner and both cards fry (to the point where the top card will throttle) one is a two slot EVGA which exhausts out of the back of the case the bottom is a three slot Asus Direct CuII which despite having a huge cooler and fan setup vents into the case, very little warm air comes out of the rear of the card at all.

I guess running two different 580's isn't helping matters. :/
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You should put the ref style card at the bottom as the top card is exhausting the heat onto the top card which won't help so much and I would set a 1:1 MSI fan profile for both your cards, so 30c = 30% fan - 40c = 40% fan 50c = 50% fan etc and that will help keep the cards cool.

Also worth noting that over time, TIM gets old and dry, so might be worth removing the coolers and reaplying some new thermal grease after giving them a good clean up. It will help with temps overall as well.
 
Gregster said:
You should put the ref style card at the bottom as the top card is exhausting the heat onto the top card which won't help so much and I would set a 1:1 MSI fan profile for both your cards, so 30c = 30% fan - 40c = 40% fan 50c = 50% fan etc and that will help keep the cards cool.

Also worth noting that over time, TIM gets old and dry, so might be worth removing the coolers and reaplying some new thermal grease after giving them a good clean up. It will help with temps overall as well.
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I've tried the ref card at the bottom but it leaves the slightest of gap between the two cards making the temps even worse, I'll have a look at profiles again , I guess thats where I'm going wrong.

I'm a bit wary of dismantling the coolers, I can be quite ham fisted :o, then again both are old cards now so you probably have a point there,

Thanks for the help matey. :)
 
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