Another GPU under load query (GTX 570)

[IRLeetly]

Had a look in the forum search and not came across this problem.

A mate of mine has bought a few months ago a GTX 570 twin frozr III. Whilst over at his I noticed looking at his Afterburner (nosey beggar I am), that his peak temp whilst gaming was 96'C.

This lead to me asking was he trying to overclock it, and if so what settings etc. He replied this was at stock and thought it was normal as this is his first gaming rig venture; only thing he had changed was the fan profile to help battle the mentioned high temp.

His case is a CM Storm Enforcer with stock fans and a 200mm out-take on the top. All airflow seems to be in order back and top as exhausts with the front as an intake. HDD cage is removed and all cables are tidied away.

He is only running one monitor at 1920 x 1080 its native resolution & at 60 Hz.

Idle at 32'C (cool day) 39'C (Heating on in the house)

World In Conflict Max settings: 71'C

BF3 high/Ultra settings: 85'C

Skyrim Ultra settings: 88'C

Fallout : New Vegas Max settings: 77'C (Using texture and weather mods)

STALKER - call to Pripyat: 90'C

Deus Ex:HR : 86'C

Dawn of War 2 Max Settings - Retribution: 96'C (but it has no Vsync option)

With other games averaging the 90'C mark in under 10 minutes of playing. Although there is no performance drop or crashes yet.

The Idle temp seems ok, but hitting nearly maximum temperature in DoW2 is rather worrying. I did recommend trying out his temps with benching software or something but he can't get a hold of that due to broadband download limits and malarkey.

Any ideas, and suggestions are much welcome, I've tried to add as much info as I can from what I know.

Cheers and sorry for the novel

EDIT: Here is a pic of his fan profile in afterburner.

 

[Freddie1980]

Sorry edit should have read OP more closely.

 

[Space Monkey]

I see the pic of the fan profile, but did his fans ramp up to 100% when the temps got really high?

 

[IRLeetly]

I see the pic of the fan profile, but did his fans ramp up to 100% when the temps got really high?

Yeah the fans seem to follow the curve when needed unless you mean before he created the profile in afterburner?

The gpu did get noisy before he made the profile I presume for it ramping up in speed. Will get him to try a couple of games with the afterburner profile disabled.

 

[IRLeetly]

With a good few sessions with the fan profile disabled temps were a couple of degrees for the worse. Any info, hint or tips will be appreciated.

 

[Zolohl]

have same gpu here and high setting on Totalwar 2 is at 70c, but i probably have a worse air flow situation here.

 

[DarkHorizon472]

Assuming there is not a very,very high overclock going on I would contact msi to see what they say as it could be a faulty card or the heat sync / fans are not attached properly.

 

[IRLeetly]

Assuming there is not a very,very high overclock going on I would contact msi to see what they say as it could be a faulty card or the heat sync / fans are not attached properly.

Cheers for the replies so far.

The avenue of contacting MSI has been tried with an email reply from them with a link to the page they had already been contacted on, just sent him (my mate) around in circles even though the card is registered with them.

 

[Turb3k]

Hey mate had a problem like this while running two 6950's in xfire now while this maybe not solve the over all problem, in dow2 using fraps my fps on the menus and in game was hitting 300fps and my cards fans were going crazy my temps got high anyway but this just made it worse! Looked for a vsync option to try and stop the cards working so hard on just a menu and like you said no vsync option so i checked google and you can edit the game file to enable vsync its in an ini file i think. Says vsync off and you change it to on ofc, pretty easy to do 2min job, should be able to find a guide on google.

As far as the cards temps go, try removing it from the system and buying some air spray and blasting it out then replace it, if that doesnt help maybe try it in your system to see if its the card or his case?