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raggamuffin

raggamuffin

raggamuffin

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Hi all,

Just got my founders editions. Was trying out a few games and seeing huge FPS boosts.

However when I just tried Battlefront the card got up to 83C which seems way too hot to me.

Am I worrying over nothing or should I be looking at trying to improve cooling in my case?

Ed
 
raggamuffin said:
Hi all,

Just got my founders editions. Was trying out a few games and seeing huge FPS boosts.

However when I just tried Battlefront the card got up to 83C which seems way too hot to me.

Am I worrying over nothing or should I be looking at trying to improve cooling in my case?

Ed
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I would ensure a custom fan profile in afterburner. I believe nvidia was a little lenient on the fan speeds.

Something like a 70% at 80c fan profile should sort that out.
 
raggamuffin said:
As a side note - running a Z35 and i'm thinking maybe the high framerates might be the cause of excessive heat?
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Working flat out will of course make the card run hotter, but the FE just runs hot out of the box anyway. You'll have to set up a more aggressive fan curve in Afterburner to lower the temperature, although the trade-off is more noise of course.
 
I don't mind noise to be honest. When my 680 was on it's way out I had to use a custom fan curve on Pallit's software and it was loud as hell.

The default on afterburner shows 80% at 80C. I've not used afterburner before but I'll test it out on Battlefront now and see how it goes.

Ed
 
Ok that afterburner has got it working nicely. Thanks for the help guys. I'll look into getting a different case. I went from a Xigamatek Elysium with a row of fans on the bottom drawing air up into the GPU to a small Corsair Midi case with 1 front fan and one rear fan with the CPU heatsink mounted on it. I think the airflow leaves a lot to be desired.

On a side note, anyone got any recommendations for a case with decent cooling abilities and preferably some fan mounts on the bottom?

Anyone had any luck with the high speed fans for helping keep GPU's cool?

Thanks,

Ed
 
My Fractal Define s has a fan on the bottom as well as room for 2 at the front and 1 at the rear (and 3 at the top if you so desire)

Has sound proofing too to deaden the sound a little :cool:
 
Maybe this hot weather we've been having is causing the extra heat? Once we get some cooler weather it may help the ambient temps, unless you have AC and jazz in which case ignore my comment lol

Its been super hot with gaming for me the past few days, room feels like a damn sauna.
 
A good & big silent CPU cooler is worth investing in too - since I've adopted these, the airflow is significantly better throughout the whole case, regardless of the fact I have only one case fan at front & back.
 
beany_bot said:
The reviews for the reference cards on the rainforest site are terrible. Complete flop
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Don't go by their reviews. Half the people talking about marketplace sellers which can sell stuff at crazy prices, and the other 80% do not even have the cards.

OP, the card is designed to run at that temp. basically each time your give it more headroom by upping the fan, it will use said headroom to boost higher. By default the fan profile is set to run fairly quiet

The card will typically stop boosting without any tweaks to the core or power to about 1800-1900. so ramp up the fan to maintain 1900+ a few % and it will drop under 80 degrees. I find 50% manual fan profile will keep the card boosted to its normal boost speeds while maintaining under 80 degrees. Of course its all down to case airflow also.
 
As for a case, you just want something with a decent air intake on the front so the card has a nice feed of air coming inside.

Lots of cases limit the air it can pull in in favour of design. you could mount 3 decent 140mm fans to the front of some cases pulling air in, but if the holes for the air to physically get through is ridiculously restrictive, it'll make little difference.
 
raggamuffin said:
Hi all,

Just got my founders editions. Was trying out a few games and seeing huge FPS boosts.

However when I just tried Battlefront the card got up to 83C which seems way too hot to me.

Am I worrying over nothing or should I be looking at trying to improve cooling in my case?

Ed
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Its normal. Same temps with the 980ti and blower cooler when they were released. Its the compromise you have to accept for being an early adopter and going for a standard card with the standard blower.
 
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