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85-98C GPU

Nokturnl1

Nokturnl1

Nokturnl1

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What can i do to reduce the heat of my card when gaming or is everything ok?

Battlefield 3 - Usually 80C to 85C / Max 98C

Day Z - Usually around 70C,goes no higher than 75C

Alan Wake - A solid 86C,drops to 85C every now & again

Bioshock Infinite Usual - 85C / Max 86C

Grand Theft Auto 4 Usual - 80C / Max 81C

Case - Sharkoon T9 w/Cable Management

Cables are pretty tidy in there.

2 Fans on front bringing air in
1 Fan on back chucking air out

It has been 28-34C all week and my room is very humid.
 
Confused Stu said:
What's the rest of your PC spec? Especially, which GPU are you running, how many monitors, and at what resolution?
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Intel Core i5 3470 3.2ghz
8gb RAM
VTX3D Radeon HD 2GB 7870 Black Edition
Cooler Master GX 550w

1 monitor running at 1920 x 1080

Just noticed you live in Gillingham lol I'm in Gravesend
 
Dude, expect 20*c plus over ambients and that's at idle. If your ROOM has poor airflow how is your computer expected to cope. We are in a heatwave as well. Air can only cool as much as the air around it. Increasing airflow increases volume, but doesn't decrease temperature. (Much!)

Try placing a fan, like a large household fan blowing directly onto the front panel.

And I wouldn't suggest removing the side of your case to improve airflow, as this completely negates your push-pull setup. (Unless of course you have an industrial sized fan running at breakneck speed directed at your motherboard!) But yeah, stick with push-pull and let it do the airflow legwork!

P.S. I stayed up until 12:30am last night and my temps fell to around normal, e.g. not summer heat! How are your temps, say, first thing when it's cool?

Heatwaves are unprecedented here, we live in UK! AM I RIGHT? Look forward to autumn then our eternal winter!
 
So today in Gillingham, according to BBC weather, it's going to be 28*c. If your pc is idling at or around 40*c, nothing is wrong! Enjoy your new system, man!
 
_corTEC said:
Dude, expect 20*c plus over ambients and that's at idle. If your ROOM has poor airflow how is your computer expected to cope. We are in a heatwave as well. Air can only cool as much as the air around it. Increasing airflow increases volume, but doesn't decrease temperature. (Much!)

Try placing a fan, like a large household fan blowing directly onto the front panel.

And I wouldn't suggest removing the side of your case to improve airflow, as this completely negates your push-pull setup. (Unless of course you have an industrial sized fan running at breakneck speed directed at your motherboard!) But yeah, stick with push-pull and let it do the airflow legwork!

P.S. I stayed up until 12:30am last night and my temps fell to around normal, e.g. not summer heat! How are your temps, say, first thing when it's cool?

Heatwaves are unprecedented here, we live in UK! AM I RIGHT? Look forward to autumn then our eternal winter!
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When its cool like 5am this morning,BF3 was running around 79-80C but by 6-7am it was hitting 84C and increasing,idle temps are about 35C
 
Get a copy of sapphire trixx and undervolt it. It must be running like a hair dryer!

You're looking at 1.25v on boost and about 1.18v normal in 3d mode. You should be able to run it at about 1.05V maybe 1.1V at stock speeds.
 
Meh.. to be fair that is a bit hotter than you should be getting. It's idling OK, so TIM application may not be an issue.

Tried a custom GPU fan profile?
 
Yeah, got to agree with most ppl here. Temps are a bit abnormal. +1 to undervolting! I used to undervolt a Q9550 @ stock and it worked wonders!
 
I had fan set to 70% through Catalyst Control Centre,i also made my own graph thing in MSI Afterburner and it was what made GPU hit 98C,i put fan back on auto and got the temps i mentioned in 1st post

@straxusii Yeh they are lol 1st thing i checked
 
I would go ahead and blame the card being VTX :p

Historically, the non-reference VTX cards are lower quality than the big boys like the Asus, MSI, Gigabyte etc. While VTX has join the party of providing custom coolers for their cards, majority of the times (or should I say all the time? :rolleyes:), their cooling capability is far worse than the competitions' custom cooling solution (and I think there was reported cases of some VTX custom coolers being even worse at cooling than the reference cooler :p).

Also, I recall people were having far more problems with the VTX cards than other brands (excluding the specific issue of the MSI 7950 Twin FrozR III issue of course).
 
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