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Card noisy in non-taxing games

Vertigo

Vertigo

Vertigo

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Strange one this.

The missus' machine has a 560Ti in it as she doesn't play much taxing stuff. What she does play is quite a few browser-based games, such as Facebook things and so on. Now, some of these are making the card absolutely howl, despite not being exactly taxing in the 3D department. She does play the odd "full" 3D game, such as the Lego games but, if anything, the card makes less noise playing those!

Anyone have any ideas what the issue could be?
 
I was going to say coil whine, but that should only occur if the game is running at 500FPS+. Can you use a program such as GPU-z, AIDA64, MSI Afterburner or HWMonitor to monitor fan speed and fan speed percentage as well as temperature?
 
Nah it's not coil whine, it's fan noise as the card is working hard and heating up, I just don't understand why such trivial little games are stressing it out so much, and more than a full 3D game like the Lego ones.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Nah it's not coil whine, it's fan noise as the card is working hard and heating up, I just don't understand why such trivial little games are stressing it out so much, and more than a full 3D game like the Lego ones.
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I don't know, it sounds very strange unless the games are making it do Crypto Currency mining in the background or something. Is the CPU being stressed as well?
 
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As an example, she's currently playing Rescue Team 5 on Steam and the card is howling.

How on earth is it working so hard on such a trivial game?
 
Same cause as coil whine even if it's the fan - non-taxing games without a framerate cap set will still max your card just drawing waay more frames than a more demanding title, and indeed the simpler the game the more it'll heat the card as the less time it's spending waiting on the CPU or new textures to be loaded or whatever. The card doesn't know if the game is easy or hard, all it knows is it's to draw the frames as fast as it can... it'll put as much effort into it as it can!

Set a cap & job done :)
 
Have you done as suggested and used some monitoring software to check GPU usage and temps to get an idea of what is happening?

If she's using Chrome as her browser you could try disabling hardware acceleration and see if that makes a difference.

If it were me I'd take the card out, take the cooler off and give it a good clean, replace the TIM with something decent and see if that makes a difference.
 
Thanks guys - I've just limited the framerate to 60 in NVidia Inspector and it seems to have cured the problem with Rescue Team, will see how it does with her other games.
 
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