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GPU wildly hot after new build

OllieC

OllieC

OllieC

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So I just built my first PC. Purchased a ASUS ROG Strix B350 motherboard, Ryzen 2700x CPU, and Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM. Paired it with my old 550W PSU and my GTX 970, in a new Stormforce LUX case with new fans.

Since putting it together, my GPU temps have gone through the roof. I took it apart and applied some new thermal paste, but did very little to the temperature, and now i'm even hitting 90 degrees just on my character select screen on WoW.

I press one ability standing still, and my GPU jumps 4-5 degrees(MSI Afterburner). Also turning lighting on makes it go up by 8 degrees, turning off immediately sends it back down.

I was hoping the thermal paste would do the trick, as it's worked in the past, but no luck this time.

Any ideas? I'm afraid to play anything because of it, I wanted to enjoy the wonderfulness that is building my first PC with much better parts. :(
 
Is there actual airflow through the Stormforce case? google suggests it has 3 front fans, but looks like a big plastic window in front of them, so what's airflow through the case actually like?
 
String said:
Manually set them to 100% and see what temperature you get under load. This will confirm if the fans are capable of cooling the card in its current setup.
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Yeah sorry, what I meant was I normally manually set them to 100% when I go into a game. I was getting those temps with GPU fan at 100%.
 
String said:
Ah. Well, it sounds like air flow issues, could you post some pictures of your setup?
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FWIW, my 970 regularly sat at 84/85 deg in a well cooled case with fans at 100% when under load. IIRC, 90deg+ was not uncommon on GTX970's on air cooling.

Changed to a 1070ti and it doesn't get above 63deg.
 
Yeah, I'm just worried because last week in my old build it wasn't like this, it was sitting at 55-65 most of the time, then possibly 70+ on something like battlefield. Now it's just 80-90 immediately after booting a game. With it having new and much better parts I wasn't sure if something else could cause it to get so hot.
 
OllieC said:
Yeah, I'm just worried because last week in my old build it wasn't like this, it was sitting at 55-65 most of the time, then possibly 70+ on something like battlefield. Now it's just 80-90 immediately after booting a game. With it having new and much better parts I wasn't sure if something else could cause it to get so hot.
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55-65 deg is very cool for a 970 under load, your old case must have had excellent cooling. Blizzard games always seemed to push my 970 quite hard.

Don't wish to appear rude, I made the same mistake before doh, but you do have the case fans pushing/pulling in the right directions?

One other thing, my 970 used to go to full load just opening up Afterburner with no 3D games running. Maybe look at temps with GPUZ only and see if you are seeing the same just for a sanity check?
 
Right, you were running a i5-4460, whilst this isn't an ancient cpu its still quite slow and would frequently bottleneck even your 970, you've basically switched the bottleneck the other way around and now its the gpu (which it always should be).

That's why your getting higher temps. your new cpu is pushing the gpu as far as it can go now. A repaste with some good tim such as kryonaut will help.

Also make sure v-sync is enabled (unless you have it switched off for a reason)
 
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