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Fan speed running fast even at low load, PALIT GTX 1070

the_tobzster

the_tobzster

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Hi guys,

So for the last few weeks my 1070 has been acting a bit strange, the fans seem to suddenly become quite loud at odd times and will run at high fan speed for a while even when the PC is at low load. I can literally just be on the desktop or chrome and it will be running fast. Equally when playing high end games (when it should be working fast) it is sometimes quieter than it can be at low stress.

I feel like it's some sort of conflicting setting or bug with the card causing the fans to run fast when it isn't necessary. I was just curious if anyone had any ideas as to why it's doing this? It's pretty furstrating when it's running quite loud and I'm not even doing anything! I have to keep putting my computer to sleep just to get some piece and quiet!

Many thanks for any help or suggestions!
 
Is it an airflow problem, your case is building up heat in this summer weather?

You probably need to turn the speed up on your case fans to clear the air.
 
Have you updated drivers recently? I had exactly the same thing, turns out the new driver defaulted to the power setting of maximum performance, meaning that it was running at 1506 mhz on the desktop. Reset it to adaptive and it is now back at 106 mhz or whatever it is when just browsing.

I sacked off the stock shroud and fans, bought an adapter to run 120mm Corsair fans with PWM and strapped two of those to the heatsink. Much better, but I could still hear them ramping up before changing the above setting
 
If the card has a passive mode, it could be causing the fans to ramp up when the card heats up and then go off when it cools down. Setting a minimum 30% fan speed at all temperatures below 60° can help here.

Also make sure you're not running multiple fan control softwares as they will conflict e.g. Speedfan plus Afterburner
 
String said:
Load is irrelevant, what is the GPU temperature when the fans are high on desktop?
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This.

Need to find out what the temps are when the fans are ramping. Get CPUID HWmonitor or alike, will tell you temps, loads and fan speeds. Will give you a good idea if its a fault or not pretty much straight away.
 
I've got a 1080Ti, and thought that desktop stuff should not really be warming up the gpu like it was. Turned out it was actually Chrome that was using the gpu, and keeping the card clocked higher than it's resting clock. Going into Chrome and turning off 3D hardware acceleration sorted it. But do note that this will lessen the smoothness of YouTube videos played through Chrome and maybe other stuff.
 
heatonpkmassive said:
Have you updated drivers recently? I had exactly the same thing, turns out the new driver defaulted to the power setting of maximum performance, meaning that it was running at 1506 mhz on the desktop. Reset it to adaptive and it is now back at 106 mhz or whatever it is when just browsing.

I sacked off the stock shroud and fans, bought an adapter to run 120mm Corsair fans with PWM and strapped two of those to the heatsink. Much better, but I could still hear them ramping up before changing the above setting
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I have recently updated just simply because I thought it would solve the issue but it still hasn't. Looking in the Palit 'Thunder master' software it says the power setting is on 1506mhz, is that not the default as mine isn't overclocked at all. Sorry to sound like a noob but how do I change it to adaptive, via nvidia control panel or?

Wrinkly said:
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I've done a full malware and virus scan and nothing was found. This was my first thought, but unfortunately didn't help me.

Also my temps are only averaging 55c during heavy load which I don't think is too hot is it? I do need to sort the airflow in my case. Really dumb question but what is the best way to set up fans? blowing cool air in or hot air out?
 
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the_tobzster said:
I have recently updated just simply because I thought it would solve the issue but it still hasn't. Looking in the Palit 'Thunder master' software it says the power setting is on 1506mhz, is that not the default as mine isn't overclocked at all. Sorry to sound like a noob but how do I change it to adaptive, via nvidia control panel or?
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Yep, using Nvidia control panel, in manage 3d settings and then power management mode. In W7, I have it set to adaptive and it clocks down, in W10 what I'm in now it's set to optimal and also clocks down to 139Mhz. So it seems either of those and not the performance setting will do it. And no sorry necessary, you've come here for help and that's what I'll try to give you :)

That is a change from previous drivers I think, that it defaults to performance, always seem to remember it defaulted to optimal previously. I could be wrong of course..
 
And to answer your first question, 1506Mhz is desktop speed when the power management in the NVCP is set to performance mode, that makes sense. I reckon this should sort you, give it a go and come back to us.
 
heatonpkmassive said:
Yep, using Nvidia control panel, in manage 3d settings and then power management mode. In W7, I have it set to adaptive and it clocks down, in W10 what I'm in now it's set to optimal and also clocks down to 139Mhz. So it seems either of those and not the performance setting will do it. And no sorry necessary, you've come here for help and that's what I'll try to give you :)

That is a change from previous drivers I think, that it defaults to performance, always seem to remember it defaulted to optimal previously. I could be wrong of course..
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Literally thanks so much man! I can't believe it could be that simple I feel like a right tit haha. Changed setting to adaptive now it's beautifully quiet on the desktop as expected. Also turned up the case fans a tad just as it's been pretty hot recently. Also like a complete idiot I realised that one of the case fans wasn't even working as it was unplugged (must've been accidentally) and because it's a see through fan I didn't even notice it not spinning, probably didn't help! Needless to say it's all sorted and really appreciate your help, you guys are awesome!
 
the_tobzster said:
Literally thanks so much man! I can't believe it could be that simple I feel like a right tit haha. Changed setting to adaptive now it's beautifully quiet on the desktop as expected. Also turned up the case fans a tad just as it's been pretty hot recently. Also like a complete idiot I realised that one of the case fans wasn't even working as it was unplugged (must've been accidentally) and because it's a see through fan I didn't even notice it not spinning, probably didn't help! Needless to say it's all sorted and really appreciate your help, you guys are awesome!
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Glad you're sorted and happy to help :)

I'd had this a few days ago on W7 and I have the same card, albeit with different fans but it'll have the same controller. So i figured the same might be happening with you as well.

A happy ending :cool:
 
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