GPU wildly hot after new build

z10m · 22 May 2018 at 11:11

From the pictures it looks like all of your fans are pushing air in to the case so you have no airflow.
The two fans mounted on the back of your case should be extracting the hot air out so you need to flip them over.

Kelt · 22 May 2018 at 11:14

Does anybody else have problems seeing those pictures?

I'm using Firefox and it won't load them at all.

Oh, working now, but FF is still whinging about the website.

Nah, FF locks up trying to load them.

Orcvader · 22 May 2018 at 11:17

Kelt said:
Does anybody else have problems seeing those pictures?

I'm using Firefox and it won't load them at all.

Oh, working now, but FF is still whinging about the website.

No issues with FF here, on the latest 60.0.1, even with an ad blocker. DNS maybe?

Kelt · 22 May 2018 at 11:26

Orcvader said:
No issues with FF here, on the latest 60.0.1, even with an ad blocker. DNS maybe?

Dunno. I keep getting that yellow bar with the warning that something is stopping the page from loading.

Only seen one other person using that host before on here, and that was the same.

OllieC · 22 May 2018 at 11:27

The fans at the front are the ones blowing out. I did remove the front panel though because if everything is covered with glass, but with small gaps, it didn't make much sense to me.
I am a noob though, someone from work sold it me, and I needed a bigger case than my old one, was assured airflow etc was good. Now I have doubts.

Kelt · 22 May 2018 at 11:29

OllieC said:
The fans at the front are the ones blowing out. I did remove the front panel though because if everything is covered with glass, but with small gaps, it didn't make much sense to me.
I am a noob though, someone from work sold it me, and I needed a bigger case than my old one, was assured airflow etc was good. Now I have doubts.

The front fans should be pulling air into the case, and the rear should be exhausting air out.

OllieC · 22 May 2018 at 11:30

darket said:
Right, you were running a i5-4460, whilst this isn't an ancient cpu its still quite slow and would frequently bottleneck even your 970, you've basically switched the bottleneck the other way around and now its the gpu (which it always should be).

That's why your getting higher temps. your new cpu is pushing the gpu as far as it can go now. A repaste with some good tim such as kryonaut will help.

Also make sure v-sync is enabled (unless you have it switched off for a reason)

I did consider this, and thought it might be a possible reason. Like I said last time I had this issue, it was when I cleaned my old pc out, put everything back together, and all of a sudden my gpu was too hot. Removed and put new paste on, and it did the trick. Didn't work this time though

Pulseammo · 22 May 2018 at 11:34

OllieC said:
The fans at the front are the ones blowing out. I did remove the front panel though because if everything is covered with glass, but with small gaps, it didn't make much sense to me.
I am a noob though, someone from work sold it me, and I needed a bigger case than my old one, was assured airflow etc was good. Now I have doubts.

Your front fans are currently sucking air in. You can tell because the spiral support bars are not visible in your picture of the front, all you see is the fan hub.

All your fans are currently set up to intake with no extraction, extraction is actually more important than intake, not to mention in your current setup the front 3 fans are battling the pressure of the back two.

Turn the top and back fan around.

Quartz · 22 May 2018 at 11:35

Let me ask a basic question: are you sure your GPU fan is actually turning?

Orcvader · 22 May 2018 at 11:36

OllieC said:
The fans at the front are the ones blowing out. I did remove the front panel though because if everything is covered with glass, but with small gaps, it didn't make much sense to me.
I am a noob though, someone from work sold it me, and I needed a bigger case than my old one, was assured airflow etc was good. Now I have doubts.

The fans in your picture looks like the front is pushing air in as well.

Ideally though, you want the front fans to push air in, and the rear and top fans to pull air out. Change them around and see what temps you're getting afterwards.

OllieC · 22 May 2018 at 11:39

Quartz said:
Let me ask a basic question: are you sure your GPU fan is actually turning?

Yes they are turning.

OllieC · 22 May 2018 at 11:41

Right, when I'm home from work I'll switch them up. The more I think about it though, the more uneasy I feel. Normally there's a glass plate at the front, and on top. I removed the front one because I had doubts about air. I was assured airflow and everything was fine. The fans were positioned like this when I bought the case. The more I look and think about it, the more I believe this case is actually terrible for airflow.

Orcvader · 22 May 2018 at 11:42

OllieC said:
Right, when I'm home from work I'll switch them up. The more I think about it though, the more uneasy I feel. Normally there's a glass plate at the front, and on top. I removed the front one because I had doubts about air. I was assured airflow and everything was fine. The fans were positioned like this when I bought the case. The more I look and think about it, the more I believe this case is actually terrible for airflow.

The case is actually fine, the main issue is none of your fans are exhausting the hot air so it all gets trapped inside.

mikedigitales · 22 May 2018 at 11:59

Yep just switch the fans so air is definitely coming in at the front and out at the back. Then recheck those temps.

darket · 22 May 2018 at 12:03

There is a simple solution that everyone is missing to check for airflow problems, take the side panel off and see if it makes a difference.

Dirk Diggler · 22 May 2018 at 12:56

darket said:
There is a simple solution that everyone is missing to check for airflow problems, take the side panel off and see if it makes a difference.

I already asked him to do that and he said it made no difference.

Freddie1980 · 22 May 2018 at 13:30

OllieC said:
Yeah, I'm just worried because last week in my old build it wasn't like this, it was sitting at 55-65 most of the time, then possibly 70+ on something like battlefield. Now it's just 80-90 immediately after booting a game. With it having new and much better parts I wasn't sure if something else could cause it to get so hot.

55-65 in the same game? Since you have a new build I assume your running a new/clean version of Windows with all the latest drivers. It might be worth checking to see if the power limit has been increased in the drivers which will allow it to achieve highers clocks at the cost of pulling more power (which results in more heat).

darket · 22 May 2018 at 14:47

String said:
I already asked him to do that and he said it made no difference.

Sorry i missed that , its not an airflow issue then. But 55-65 degrees is very low for a 970, its screams under utilisation , i would expect 75-85 degrees maxed in this weather.

OllieC · 22 May 2018 at 15:04

Freddie1980 said:
55-65 in the same game? Since you have a new build I assume your running a new/clean version of Windows with all the latest drivers. It might be worth checking to see if the power limit has been increased in the drivers which will allow it to achieve highers clocks at the cost of pulling more power (which results in more heat).

Yeah, I was running WoW at about 60ish, maybe more depending on what's happening. But now even on character select screen it shoots to 80-90. Stand still and press a single ability and it spikes up. Was definitely not doing that before. And yeah, I have taken the side panel off and the temperature didn't decrease.

Freddie1980 · 22 May 2018 at 18:17

OllieC said:
Yeah, I was running WoW at about 60ish, maybe more depending on what's happening. But now even on character select screen it shoots to 80-90. Stand still and press a single ability and it spikes up. Was definitely not doing that before. And yeah, I have taken the side panel off and the temperature didn't decrease.

Sorry did you quote the right person? I didn't say anything about taking the side panel off. Check the power limiter is at 0 or minimum in the driver's.