GTX 590 temperatures

[BillTheButcher]

Following on from a discussion that started here...

The official line from nVidia is that 97C is the maximum safe temperature for the GTX 590. Mine runs up to about 87/88 during some of the busier Dragon Age II cutscenes.

As you can see from the comments made in that thread, Damo thinks that this is too high a temperature for a 590 to run at for any length of time.

If this is the case then why does the built-in fan only ever reach about 60% even when the temps hit 87/88? Surely if it was dangerous to run near 90 or above the fans would ramp up to 100% as soon as the GPU temps got anywhere near that sort of temperature.

 

[subbytna]

Can you not use MSI Afterburner to set up a personalised fan speed profile? 590 fans are a bit whiney anyway iirc

 

[BillTheButcher]

I'm sure I could but what I'm wondering is why the nVidia fan control doesn't increase the fan speed automatically if as Damo says, it's a bad idea to run at these temperatures.

 

[Marine-RX179]

I'm sure I could but what I'm wondering is why the nVidia fan control doesn't increase the fan speed automatically if as Damo says, it's a bad idea to run at these temperatures.

They probably could set the fan profile rpm higher, but it will also be louder as well. Under 90C for a high power consumption dual-GPU card is not too bad to be honest...but if you want lower temp, you gonna have to set the fan faster with custom profile, which will lead to high noise level.

 

[BillTheButcher]

^ Thanks.

I had a play around with Afterburner last night and I've set up a custom profile as suggested.

With nVidia's full auto settings I was getting 87/88C at full GPU load with the fans at 60%.

I've set the fans to kick in a bit harder and a bit earlier (60% @ 60C, 70% @ 70C, etc.) and now the GPU temps peak at 75C.