980Ti Load temps

[Borealis]

I recently bought the MSI 980Ti Gaming and I've been extremely happy with it. What temperature should it be running at under full load?

I had Far Cry 3 running on ultra last night and it was a steady 75C. I know that on the MSI Gaming cards the fans don't kick in until it reaches 60C. The card was at 75C and the fan was at 66%. I'm assuming that the fan would have ramped up to 100% if it needed any further cooling?

I'm not that familiar with the Maxwell chips, since I've been running a 7950 for the last 2 years. Any advice/reassurance would be helpful!

 

[Borealis]

So it looks like I'm around average on stock settings with no custom cooling/fan curve.

@setter. Yup, that's the exact same situation I've got on auto-fan settings. At least I now know it's 'normal' for this card. I'l probably mess around with the fan profile and my case airflow to bring it down a little.

 

[Borealis]

OK, so I've had a quick fiddle with afterburner. Now just to find the right balance!

Does anybody have any custom fan curves that work well? I take it that 1-1 ratio means 40% at 40C and 60% at 60C?

Sorry if I sound like a dummy but I've been going slightly insane this week. I'm at home on jury service and so far haven't been picked, hence I've been sitting around for 4 days doing nothing!

EDIT: Thanks setter, you're a star!

 

[Borealis]

Yeah, got your fan curve set and it's now a cool 63C so far. I've got all my fans, CPU and case, attached to the PWM hub on my new Enthoo Pro case. I'm tempted to get a 3rd party fan controller and hook all the case fans to that, so I can adjust the case flow without changing the CPU fan speed though.

 

[Borealis]

Mine's idling at 135MHz GPU clock, 202MHz Mem clock and 405MHz video clock. Now I've got the fan curve sorted, it's idling at 27C. Mine idled at 40C before I set a custom fan curve. With the MSI gaming, the fan is silent at 40% speed.

If you consider that without the fan it's a passive cooler, then I don't think 40C on passive cooling istoo bad. Bear in mind if you consider ambient room temp to be 21-25C, then that's only another 15-19C higher.