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Getting my GPU fans under control

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My Gigabyte 2070 super spins up it's fans to max speed whilst gaming and sits there until I shut my PC off. It's loud as hell and irritating as hell.

I've cleaned the GPU extensively, and the temps sit around 40-50deg, yet the fans sit there screaming like they're trying to cool the sun.

Any ideas? I'll see if there are any driver updates this afternoon but hoping I might get some other ideas in here.

Cheers :)
 
40 to 50 degrees is really cool for an air cooled card. I'd just use msi afterburner to create a custom fan curve to make the noise tolerable.

Thermal limits for those cards is around 89 degrees, I'd probably try to keep it under 80 degrees , 60 to 70 degrees under load would be fine.
 
Captain_Bosh said:
40 to 50 degrees is really cool for an air cooled card. I'd just use msi afterburner to create a custom fan curve to make the noise tolerable.

Thermal limits for those cards is around 89 degrees, I'd probably try to keep it under 80 degrees , 60 to 70 degrees under load would be fine.
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Cheers. Afterburner seems to have absolutely no effect on the control of the fans, they sit there at whatever speed they're running regardless of what I do. I'm currently reinstalling the drivers to see if that helps.
 
Might be stupid, but I recently put a brand new 4080 super in my PC. Turned it on, couldn't hear the fans at all.

Start a game up, within about 10 seconds it's on full blast and sounds like a jet. Thought maybe it's just how cards are now, but I could hear it over my headset with music/the game on and I was pretty ****** off!

Turns out, it was because I had a cable touching the fan very slightly, so it wasn't spinning at it's full speed, the sensors recognised this and put it into thermal protect mode.

Maybe worth a look to see if something similar is happening.
 
I would install HWINFO64 and check the GPU hotspot temperature. I had an issue with a 3090 where the GPU temps where normal but the hotspot temperature was over 100 degrees causing the fans to ramp up.
 
Sounds like it's either in full pelt mode due to a different/hidden temperature reading, or the fan sensor/control has failed so they are running at max.
 
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