85-98C GPU

[Nokturnl1]

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.

 

[Nokturnl1]

What's the rest of your PC spec? Especially, which GPU are you running, how many monitors, and at what resolution?

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

 

[Nokturnl1]

clean the dust...
leave your case open...

Done that,build is only 6 days old

is this the one with one fan in the middle?

usually this cards run hot, but not that hot.

YES IT IS

 

[Nokturnl1]

Anyone else got an idea of what to do?

 

[Nokturnl1]

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!

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

 

[Nokturnl1]

What's your card?

This is fairly normal for some models.

VTX3D Radeon HD 2gb 7870 Black Edition

 

[Nokturnl1]

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

 

[Nokturnl1]

So...my card temps are normal because my card is not very good @ cooling?

 

[Nokturnl1]

Sorry to say this, but that is not normal, especially for a 6 day build. Either you've screwed up somewhere with your cooling, the graphics card is faulty/underperforming or you've bought a card that has poor cooling to begin with.

The only time I've ever had temps close to that were on my X1900XT, which was hitting almost a 100C. Cleaning out the huge wads of dust and replacing the TIM, sorted that out completely.

Yes, air cooling can't make your GPU cooler than the air around it, but an effective air cooling solution can get very close to it.

Any tips? Items to buy? Anything?

 

[Nokturnl1]

Na i cant be dealing with returns all over again,i returned the 1st 1 they sent me over a week ago cos it was faulty and im still waiting for refund

 

[Nokturnl1]

My other temps are all fine as far as i know,its just my GPU on certain games are real high like Alan Wake is 86C and BF3 around 84C now but then Day Z or Euro Sim 2 are around 67C-74C

I am going to play BF3 now,will post CPUID photo after a round of that

Before Battlefield 3



Just finished a game of Battlefield 3 -It's cool at the moment,probably the coolest its been all week



Everything ok? Yay or Nay?