GTX Titan X Maxwell - 83C when not in use

[19ninety]

After a few minutes of inactivity when not using my PC my graphics card will run up to 83C and the seems to be working when nothing is actually happening.

Anyone have any ideas why it's doing this? I don't have any mining/FAH software software installed.

 

[19ninety]

Looks like 4 minutes then it cooks up:

 

[19ninety]

Couple more screens:

https://ibb.co/gVOMvy
https://ibb.co/eoaqoJ

 

[flea.rider]

time to retim ..more paste plz that's what its saying

 

[AETAaAS]

Are those usage spikes in the second post you doing something to test it, or is there an unwanted passenger in your computer?

 

[Wrinkly]

Does sound like you have picked up a malware miner. Some websites can also employ mining, do you have a browser open when this happens?

Give the PC a scan using Malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.com) for a start.

 

[19ninety]

Cheers guys, did wonder if it was a TIM issue, but it's a stock cooler and didn't look to have been removed or tampered when I bought it, also the spikes in temp are too sudden for boiled/dried out TIM.
I had just opened task manager to see if something flagged in there when I thought I'd open my antivirus and start a full scan ... noticed a message, something about mint.exe hiding in IE history. Bit odd since I don't use IE or Edge, guess I picked something up from a scumbag software hosting site when downloading different versions of ASUS AI Suite the last couple of evenings, and it's default install is to IE?
Once the scan is done I'll run Malwarebytes too.

 

[Kaapstad]

Cheers guys, did wonder if it was a TIM issue, but it's a stock cooler and didn't look to have been removed or tampered when I bought it, also the spikes in temp are too sudden for boiled/dried out TIM.
I had just opened task manager to see if something flagged in there when I thought I'd open my antivirus and start a full scan ... noticed a message, something about mint.exe hiding in IE history. Bit odd since I don't use IE or Edge, guess I picked something up from a scumbag software hosting site when downloading different versions of ASUS AI Suite the last couple of evenings, and it's default install is to IE?
Once the scan is done I'll run Malwarebytes too.

I agree with the guys above that you may have picked up malware/virus.

I also think that people wanting to changing the paste on the GPU are jumping the gun a bit, this is something I have never had to do on any of my air cooled cards . Having said that I have had to change the paste on many cards when I add water blocks.

 

[Pooh]

I’d bet a pound to a penny you’ve picked up some malware

 

[19ninety]

Yup, see previous post, was mint.exe, All cleaned up now and no more issues.