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New GPU - High temps

twera

twera

twera

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Hi everyone,

I've recently built my new small pc, but I've got an gigabyte 7950 windforce 3x on stock and whilst playing dead space the temps are between 80-90c.

Is this right?
 
Case will be the problem, you most likely need more airflow.

Make sure there is room for the air to vacate (aka not against a wall).

Get yourself some low profile side fans to draw the hot air hot out, this will reduce your temps a little.
 
the temps are high and considering the cold weather might be a good idea to get some extra air over them, have you tried a custom fan profile..will be noisier but an easy way to knock 10C off of auto fan temps.
 
take the side off your case and try it if the temps are a lot lower, i guess ya need either more fans, or more powerfull fans, also make sure your fans arent been blocked by lots of cables, it could just be dust on the intake fan grills causing poor air flow.
 
twera said:
It's in a bitfenix prodigy.
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What's the exact spec of the rig?

When you say "stock" remember the Windforce has a 100mhz factory overclock. You can use MSI afterburner to over/underclock the GPU and also set a custom fan speed profile to help tame the temps. There is a GUI that can be enabled to show your FPS, temps, VRAM used etc which is handy ingame. "Tuning" your GPU is the free option ;)

The windforce cooler dumps the hot air into the case (your heatsink for the CPU quite possibly is too). Improving the airflow in the case will help. Bitfenix do mesh front panels which would allow more air in. When I do prodigy specs I do try to add a 200mm fan (£10ish) for the front intake if possibubble.

If you are on the stock heatsink then adding a CLC cooler might well help too. It's tricky to pick air coolers for the mini-itx mobos as they can overhang the PCI-EX lane :(
 
Ill try vsync thanks.

The spec is:

i5-3750k with stock cooler, ordered h80i but the rad screw holes werent 'screwable' so have to use this stock cooler. windforce 7950, 8gb ram z77n mb.

i understand it's 100mhz already oc'd. I've got the 230mm on the front sucking air in, going to have 1 top fan exhaust and rear exhaust as of tomorrow. That should hopefully help.
 
Hello, I have exactly the same GPU in a new build and my temps never go above 50 playing games. Even running Furmark the highest i've seen it go is 60 and that was after a while of 100% load.
 
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