Graphics Card Idle Temp :( ?

[Buchanan0204]

Morning,

Well I've noticed my computer getting pretty loud recently. After checking the idle temp of my graphics card. It idles around 60°c which of course is far too high.

Is there any reason it would do this? My airflow is fine. Do you think I should reseat the cooler with MX4?

Could it be a driver issue?

 

[Buchanan0204]

Could be many things, but first I suggest getting one of those air dusters and blasting the fan and heatsink with it. Its surprising how much effect just a tiny little bit of dust can have on these things.

I already took a look at the fan and it's pretty spotless to be honest.

 

[Buchanan0204]

Sorry. Perhaps I should have listed some more information.

Bearing in mind I'm not a huge GPU buff. New to fancy graphics cards and gaming

Anyway. I bought the 6970 when it first came out, it's a Sapphire edition.

11.5 drivers

All my fans in my system are clean and working perfectly. As I said, airflow isn't an issue here. GPU is spotless with no dust on it what so ever.

My CPU temps are fine. Just the GPU getting a bit hot. It's not necessarily the heat that annoys me, it's the fan spinning faster to compensate.

I checked the temp in CCC. Didn't feel the need to look anywhere else, I'm sure HW monitor reports the same anyway.

Only program I run that uses hardware acceleration as far as I'm aware is firefox. I closed this however and it made no difference.

Think I should just bite the bullet and get some MX4?

 

[Buchanan0204]

well i have the same card and at idle i get around 35~38 c with 25~28% fan , and mine is overclocked quite heavily, so if there's no dust then either bad airflow but still should not be so hot or gpu is having bad contact with heatsink.

also did you check maybe at idle your gpu uses 3dclocks ?

Mines used to idle at those temps as well. I've mentioned before a couple of times now. The airflow of the case is fine, my temps were once low and the case hasn't been altered in any shape or form. So dust and airflow are out of the equation.

It's either a software issue or a physical hardware issue. How would I go about monitoring my GPU activity? Does MSI Afterburner have this feature?

 

[Buchanan0204]

yes msi afterburner has everything u need to monitor gpu activity

Cheers.

Well after some trial and error. It turned out to be a dock I was using. Had hardware acceleration enabled. I just presumed it wouldn't have needed it. Hardly an intensive program. MSI AB was able to source out the problem for me.

Thanks to all the people who offered their help. Much appreciated.