1080Ti Overheating idle?

[faceman123]

Hey guys, Just a quick one,

my friends MSI 1080Ti Gaming X 11G is idling on 62c. His got a good airflow case.

the backplate is extremely hot to the touch. in games the card reaches 76c.

is it time to RMA?

should we replace thermal paste?

What should the idle temp/load temps be?

Thanks

 

[faceman123]

About 30/36 idle and 60-70c gaming. What are the fans doing at idle ?

they're spinning

 

[faceman123]

I've got the same model MSI 1080ti and the fans don't actually start until 60 degrees.

When idle it hovers about 45-50 without the fans going. (Thats in a Phanteks M Pro with 4x 140mm fans, 2 intake, 2 extract)

It reaches about 68-72 when gaming with the default fan curve after about an hour gaming.

What are his clocks at idle? are they stuck in 3d mode causing higher than average idle?

how do i check this? thanks in advance clocks are always on 1430 then boost to 1900~ when gaming

 

[faceman123]

hi guys im using these both the fans will spin up to cool the gpu down once in a while usally its 60-62c

 

[faceman123]

You can check in msi afterburner. The idle clocks are way to high if they are constantly on 1400mhz+, should be around 140mhz ish if it's a monitor with a refresh below 120hz.

Multiple monitors and high refresh rate (144hz etc) monitors can cause the idle clocks to rise, but nowhere near 1400Mhz. Chrome sometimes causes mine to jump to 3d clocks like 1400mhz sometimes.

thank you, i'm running it on

yeah, make sure full performance is not the global profile. If it is, then set apps like chrome and steam to adaptive. But better to keep global at adaptive or optimal power and then set specific games that need to full performance if thats desired.

Also the heatsink or case cooling doesnt sound optimal for those temps, my auros 1080ti with fans off, at these current ambient temps idles at about 28C at 135mhz, or if the clocks are performance 1567mhz it idles at about 39C.

Thanks for the replies, can't figure out for the life of me what's causing it to boost - i've got 165hz gsync panel 2k and a 2k ips panel, i updated nvidia global settings, it occasionally drops to 600~ but returns to 1430 and even 1544 O_O

 

[faceman123]

thank you very much all - Turns out if you have two monitors 1 high refresh 144> and another monitor it does this - Thank you nvidia...... Thanks everyone for your help saved me from an RMA!.

next question is 75c high for gaming? thank u.

 

[faceman123]

depends how long it's been going for. I don't really get much time to game longer than about an hour at a time, and I've seen it peak at about 72c if it's a particularly GPU intensive game, so not that far off really.

Thank you very much, you went out of your way for this. Saved me an RMA literally, everyone on this page

 

[faceman123]

70c is normal for a GPU on air.

Have had the card and those temperatures are normal depending on ambient etc.

75c is normal for gaming. Especially if the card is under a lot of load as the 1080Ti is a powerful chip and produces a lot of heat. Even with a cooler as large as the gaming x’s they still get reasonably hot.

75c still nothing to worry about for an air cooled gpu.

The cards fans don’t start until 60c and if you are using the card moderately on idle such as YouTube where the clocks rise then the fans will just start to run.

Thanks yeah The card is perfect, was tempted to use liquid metal on the GPU but not sure if this is worth the risk?

 

[faceman123]

To me 70+ is high, it maybe normal if you have a poor heatsink or an air blower, but since I got my palit which had proper cooling I got used to lower temps, and with tuning of the fan curves as well as undervolting I have my auros 1080ti nowhere near 70C now and thats air cooled.

My gtx 1070 would sit in mid to high 40s in most games, and in 50s in very demanding games.
My 1080ti sits about 5-10C higher on average as its cooler is inferior to the palit, but still havent seen it above low 60s yet. Most games its 45-55C.

I know the msi armour card had a really bad heatsink.

Noob question but how do I undervolt

 

[faceman123]

I already did that.

The thing is overclocked the lazy way will use stupid volts, if you undervolt you can get same clocks with less volts which in turn means less heat, and yes cooler quality makes a difference.

At 2025mhz (very respectable clock for a 1080ti) in a benchmark 100% gpu utilisation, vsync off so uncapped framerates the card hits 62C. Granted it will probably hit 70C in mid summer.

However I am talking about gaming, most games dont max out GPUs unless you for some reason play with uncapped framerates. In this respect benching and max load are both unrealistic expectations for a high end GPU.

hey again bud, did the unlock voltage controls but it just shows CORE VOLTAGE slider i can't set it to minus?

Also mines under load goes to 1987 with 105% power limit ( makes 0 dif if i increase), is this okay?

Thanks