570 too hot?

[liscoe]

Hi,

Bit concerned about my gtx 570 temps- from comments and reviews read online the card should idle at about 35-40 degrees C. Mine however seems to idle at over 60 and I can't see a reason for this.

I have the stock cooler on the card and it is set to automatic, currently running at 48% 1380RPM. Even when running the fan at a top (noisy) speed of 85% 3930 RPM the temperature only comes down to 44 degrees. When gaming temps hit 85 degrees!

My pc has been on less than an hour this morning, I have two 120 fans in the front of the case and one in the back so there should be decent airflow. My motherboard temp is 32 degrees and my cpu also 32 (noctua D14) so I don't understand why the graphics card should run so hot! I was hoping to overclock the card but concerned already that things are running so warm on stock speeds...

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Ah yes just been playing with settings and I do have two screens attached- disabling one of them drops temps dramatically down to about 45 degrees. Noticed though that my card only drops down to 405MHz instead of 50MHz as it should. Strange, time for more investigating...

 

[liscoe]

Thanks for all your help- when I disabled the second screen and rebooted the card now runs at idle and temp is 38 degrees which is fine.

Bit annoying about running at full speed just to power the second monitor though- I'll just have to enable/disable as required...