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GTX570 Safe Temps

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

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Hi guys,

I am now in the odd position where my GTX570 idles at higher temps than it is at full load. The reason for this is that when I'm browsing the web and my CPU temperature is less than 40c, all my system fans are running on low. I'm also running the GFX card at 40% fan.

This results in an idle temp of 78c. This quickly reduces to 60c if I run the GPU fan at 50% instead of 40%, but with a slight increase in noise.

As soon as I kick a game off, the system fans spin up, the GPU fan speed increases and the temperature barely goes above 75c at full load.

Is it a good idea to have it sat at almost 80c idle?

I must say I am particularly enjoying the silence. I can barely hear the entire machine, it's blissful...
 
Although the card can is designed to handle temps in that area I still think that is unnecessarily high. I would've thought that the most a 570 would idle at would be around 50 tops.
 
There is a serious problem here as even with really high ambient room temps and bad case airflow that idle temp is just wrong, can u list the rest of ur system plz including psu and case and also ur ambient room temp.
 
Which case do you have and how many case fans?

I like to pack my cases with Xilence Red Wing fans (some at 7v)

Keeps a nice steady airflow with low noise
 
I have a Coolermaster ATCS201 with 4 fans. The rest of the system is an Asus P8Z58V-Pro, 8Gb XMS3, 2xWD Black in RAID0 and a Corsair HX520 fan. Room temperature is 20c.

The is almost no airflow into the case when the fans are turned right down - this produces an almost silent environment but results in high idle temps on the GPU.

I'm also running dual monitors which I beleive has some effect on idle temp.

I can quite easily return the idle temp to something more normal by leaving the fan settings alone but the point is I'd rather not as I enjoy the silence :p
 
What fans are they?

The stock fans on the ATCS cases were pretty loud and poor in terms of airflow

Mine's the ATCS110, I think it's practically the same layout

2x 80mm at the front
1x 80mm at the back
1x 80mm at the top

Xilence red wing stats..

Fan size (edge to edge) 80 mm
Manufacturer Xilence
Model XPF80R
Air volume at full speed (12V), CFM ±10% 19.6
Noise level at full speed (12V), dB(A) 15
Fan speed at full speed (12V), RPM ±10% 1500
Air volume at reduced speed (7.5V), CFM ±10% -
Noise level at reduced speed (7.5V), dB(A) -
Fan speed at reduced speed (7.5V), RPM ±10% -
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There may be better fans out now, in terms of dba/cfm
 
I cant remember what fans they are but they are not the stock fans, I've replaced them several times over the life of the case.

All I want to know is if my graphics card will explode if it idles at 80c. I know why it idles at 80c - because my fan profile produces no airflow inside my case :p

It's sitting at 59c now with the fans set to 'Normal' and the GPU fan on 50%, for example.
 
Can't see why you should have any problems fox. I run Folding@home on my GTS450 24/7 and have the fan set to 40% and sitting at a constant 80 degrees, my 8800GT was ran the same for 12 months and that was 2+ years old when I bought.

edit: meant problems with the temps causing issues, not why you have problems with it idle that high.
 
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That's seems far to hot for a 570. What have you got it clocked to?

I know its pretty warm today but somethings not right. Dual monitors will increase Idle temp but not to that level. Might be worth reseating the gpu and hsf.

My overclocked GTX 470 is idling at 35-40 degC with stock fan at 40% fan speed.
 
i'd say that your biggest problem is that if these are the temps now what are they going to be like later this month when predicitons are that the weather could break heatwave records?

80C won't immediately damage anything on the card but it will reduce the lifespan of the components
 
shadow_boxer said:
I know its pretty warm today but somethings not right.
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There is almost zero airflow in the case, for noise reason. It's back to normal when I put the fans back on.

ScottiB said:
i'd say that your biggest problem is that if these are the temps now what are they going to be like later this month when predicitons are that the weather could break heatwave records?
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We don't have heatwaves in Devon :p
 
The cards won't downclock running 2 monitors but with ppl running that kind of setup they never normally idle over 55c, tbh if u want silence then get ur hand in ur pocket and build a watercooling loop, ur never gonna have a silent pc running air cooling alone, ur problem is as u know bad case airflow from running ur fans too slow and starving the gpu of clean air and also the 2 monitor setup is not helping at all.
U can turn all ur case fans down to a minimum to keep it quiet but using the default fan profile the gpu will end up being louder than the case fans ever were, to fix this u run an updated fan profile which keeps the fan speed lower but is always gonna result in extreme temps, as mentioned above, 70c aint gonna break anything but it's not a 24/7 idle temp i would like to be running just to keep the pc a bit quieter.
 
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