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Deafult GPU fan speed curve became (?) lazy

Borsch

Borsch

Borsch

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Hello,

I have recently suffered a few grey screen crashes and found out that these are due to GPU memory overheat. I have then noticed that my gtx580 reference is near silent under load- which surely is not meant to be I thought. :) It's not the way it was in the past- I could definitely hear the swooshing of air - but last time on concentrated on that was in summer, since then I didnt game much and didnt pay attention to the fan noise.

GPU-z reports fan speed at 55% when temps are about 75C. I can use MSI afterburner to customise auto fan speed - and that works well, fan speed goes to nearly 70% and temps stay below 70.

THE question: how to make DEFAULT fan speed curve to (return to?) more aggressive cooling performance? I dont want to run MSI all the time.

Also, the card is not OCed at the moment, but when it was (through MSI Afterburner as well) - I did not need to have Afterburner running in the background for OC settings to work. But Afterburner custom fan profile DOES need Afterburner to be running in background all the time- what gives? Runnning latest 310.90, but spotted the problem with 310.70 (clean install, driver sweeper in safe mode, etc)
 
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You don't say if it's a reference card ?, but reference fan profile will not ramp the fan until in the 80's c thats why the run about 86c.

Modern highend games a brutal and I have a real problem running electronics over 60c so an aggressive fan curve will be required. If you have a good case you should be able to keep the card under 70c.

Nvidia used to do, think it was called system tools..real bugger to use but you can make an automatic fan profile which will be "fit and forget" if that will help
 
Thanks for the answer- downloading Nvidia System Tools right now.

The card is reference gtx580 and it grey screens with temps at 80-83C (I guess Vram heats more but has no sensor), so more aggressive curve is a must...

WHat I am wondering is could newer drivers mess up the fan settings? Like I said, all was fine until recently.
 
Borsch said:
Thanks for the answer- downloading Nvidia System Tools right now.

The card is reference gtx580 and it grey screens with temps at 80-83C (I guess Vram heats more but has no sensor), so more aggressive curve is a must...

WHat I am wondering is could newer drivers mess up the fan settings? Like I said, all was fine until recently.
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Not experienced that, but they did bump the voltages a while back now just before Kepler so about a year back (some of the oc cards were falling over)

Might be worth pulling the top cover and cleaning the cooler and maybe some AS5 paste also, nice simple job on those
Sounds like something has deteriorated with the prolonged heat but you may sort the old girl with a little tlc ;)
 
Nvidia System Tools solved the problem - many thanks for your help! :)

I've set the curve to a straight 1-to-1 temp-fan speed and all is well. The settings stick without any soft running in background. I dont believe the card should need opening up as I only bought it last May, plus it may void the warranty... My case is all clean too, hardly any dust there after I've put filters in it.

I guess I'll stick to Afterburner for OC (to save me from redoing it every driver update) and for fan it will be Nvidia System tools now. (I wish Afterburner was a single solution for all this, but oh well)

Thanks again!
 
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Borsch said:
Nvidia System Tools solved the problem - many thanks for your help! :)

I've set the curve to a straight 1-to-1 temp-fan speed and all is well. The settings stick without any soft running in background. I dont believe the card should need opening up as I only bought it last May, plus it may void the warranty... My case is all clean too, hardly any dust there after I've put filters in it.

I guess I'll stick to Afterburner for OC (to save me from redoing it every driver update) and for fan it will be Nvidia System tools now. (I wish Afterburner was a single solution for all this, but oh well)

Thanks again!
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No problem,
It's Great you never need to remember to turn it on ;) you will find it's totally fit and forget even when you update video drivers !
Very impressed you figured it out so quickly, you need to do a simple guide :)
I recall a bit of a battle a couple of years back when I used it .

I didn't realise you card was only 7 months old... sure it will be ok now, if not you have plenty of warranty left.
 
I think you had to deal with some older version, this one is pretty straight forward, everything is integrated into Nvidia Control Panel and is labelled pretty well.
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PS I also should mention that grey screens happened with gpu OCed after all. At stock everything the card is stable even with default profile.
 
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Yeah, that does look pretty straight forward, it was a couple of years back now and I don't recall the version. I might have to give that newer one a try on my 680.
Good news your card is ok :) don't doubt some newer games have dropped stability for many peoples OC !
 
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ltnmzh said:
I haven't tried but if you google "NiBiTor fan speed", you will find many tutorials on it. Not sure if will work on OP's card though.
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Unless something has changed in the last few months you 100% can not change the fan curve.... everything but !
 
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