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Nvidia GTX 285 overheating

mistercrabb

mistercrabb

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Hi,
My sister has been playing The Sims 3, and its getting a few artifacts, and every now and then it will crash.
I thought it was just a bug, but using CPUID hardware monitor it shows a peak of 84C after about 3 minutes of game play :eek:

Im pretty sure thats not good, but I dont see why its happening. The card easily handles the highest settings on Sims 3 with no lag, and its not overclocked.

Ill have to whack the case fan settings up a bit, and possibly leave the side of the case open, but I reckon this is a bit weird, surely the card should have its own fan powerful enough to cool it down?

I dont get this problem on other games, I can play Burnout Paradise on the highest setting for hours without problems..

Any comments?
Would it be worth getting an aftermarket cooler?

Cheers,
Rob
 
Download EVGA precision tuner and turn the fan speeds up. I have mine set at 80% for gaming.
 
Could be the card is pumping out 100s of fps in a simple game, which never seems to do GPUs much good, they often start coil whine, etc...

Check what the fan is doing as well - sometimes the 200 series get stuck on default fan speed and don't increase it with temperature.

EDIT: Forcing vsync on for sims 3 might help as it would cap the workload the card is doing.
 
Hmm, had another go and I am getting a little bit of lag when moving the camera.
Perhaps I have the setting up too high.

I see no vsync setting though.
Ill try playing around with EVGA Precision Tuner too.
 
Brillo, thanks.

Been playing around with that EVGA tuner thing, I see that my fan speed is stuck at 40%, despite the 'auto' light being lit up (with the OSD, you can see the temp rising at 1C/Second, and the fan still at 40%. Its quite amusing).

I shall have to investigate further.
 
The sims 3 is extemely buggy and known to produce poor frames im led to believe ,i have it but have not yet played it,you cant go wrong using evga tool for fan speed brill program.
 
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mistercrabb said:
Brillo, thanks.

Been playing around with that EVGA tuner thing, I see that my fan speed is stuck at 40%, despite the 'auto' light being lit up (with the OSD, you can see the temp rising at 1C/Second, and the fan still at 40%. Its quite amusing).

I shall have to investigate further.
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Its easy from there, just unclick auto and set the fan to around 80%.
works great for me.
 
imo, if you are getting artifacts on any game then the card is suspect. You should not have to manually increase fanspeed, it should plain and simple work.

What kind of artifacts are you seeing?
 
does it ever go any higher than 85? my 280 sometimes peaks at 85c and doesnt have any problems. it used to peak at 80 but probably got a bit more dust on it now! if it goes past 90 i'd start to worry and clean the dust off it but the cards have a max temp of 105c and its mostly reported on te net that allot of people are getting around 80.
 
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D13 said:
imo, if you are getting artifacts on any game then the card is suspect. You should not have to manually increase fanspeed, it should plain and simple work.

What kind of artifacts are you seeing?
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The artifacts are just brown lines occasionally flicking across the screen.
Not like my old card overheating, which caused random coloured triangles (on my old pc, not related).
I thought something was up with the game/Win7 until I noticed the heat.

I can manually turn up the fan speed, but its still not doing it automatically.

To the other poster, I dont know how high the temp goes if I leave it, it was going up 1C per second till I closed the game at 80ish.
 
mistercrabb said:
To the other poster, I dont know how high the temp goes if I leave it, it was going up 1C per second till I closed the game at 80ish.
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ok if its artifacting at 80c i doubt its the temperature of the card thts causing it in all honesty as i said the card can handle that temp fine. maybe your card is just faulty.
 
My 285 (EVGA SSC) was doing the same and I RMA'd it to a competitor (at £12 expense) and they say it's working fine. Haven't got it back yet, but I was under the impression the card should NEVER artifact, as its a sign of an unstable overclock. Regardless of temperature, it means it's unstable right?

When i ran Furmark on the card with whatever running so I could the temp in the app it rose to over 90C. If I upped the resolution it got worse and the app even crashed (like a minimise that wouldn't maximise again).

Guess I'll try this when i get mine back.

BTW I am on Win7 too. Maybe the fan speed is faulty on Win7 in general? Competitor said they used Vista x64. Could have used it in temp controlled environment though.

Try GTA4 though, that gets way more artifacts than any other game for me. Sims 3 was just occassional. Grid worked fine, but GTA has it almost immediately. It even buggered up right after a cut scene and Nikos hand was floating a little away from his wrist... And then it crashed. But the taxi driving at the start of the game after the boat, the headlights have a circular flicker around the shape of the beam. Impressive and distracting to watch.
 
when im playing warsaw i easily hit the 999 fps with 2 4850s but normally if i set it to 100fps it only increases by 1 degree but when i set it to 999 max it rapidly increases. gay
but make sure ur case had good air circulation etc and increase fan spee
 
Okay, thanks to Rroff it seems to be lovely now :)
Turning on Vsync has kept my card temp down at 67C with all the settings turned up full and fan at 40% still.
And there are no artifacts.

Seems good to me, thanks everyone!

I might give furmark a go, just to see how it behaves..

Edit: It artifacted a little bit at 90C (On extreme burn mode).. I closed it because I felt sorry for it :(
 
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