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Temperature problems!

Wolfe777 said:
This is almost identical to an issue I was having with my 680 - idle temps of around 70 showing 0% gpu usage. I even posted a topic here titled something like unusual overheating issue. I fixed mine after a lot of trial and error by installing new nvidia driver via a custom install option as a completely new install replacing any prior settings.

I have a strong hunch this is a virus or software issue for the topic creator and that replacing thermal paste won't improve anything. I think it's an advanced bitcoin virus that falsely shows 0% gpu usage to divert people's attention from it.

Anyway my pc is back to normal now and I did'nt have to reinstall windows or apply thermal paste. My advice is to run malwarebytes and unistall any gpu drivers completely before trying a clean install of the drivers to see if that helps at all.
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I've tried to run Malwarebytes and it came up with nothing, I'm going to try the thermal paste first...if that doesn't help I will just do a fresh install.

Thanks again.

Edit: Ok just finished getting the card put back together with new paste on, It's now idling at 50c ish...
Massive improvement in my opinion...

Anything else I can do?
Picture of how AMD Overdrive sits in idle; http://puu.sh/7GpAO.png

Thanks guys!
 
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Well it seems the thermal paste did help in this instance, but in my case I was having 70 at idle that went right down to 43 or so and has consistently remained at those idle temps since I did a clean install of the gpu drivers.

So hopefully the paste has solved the issue for you, but your idle temps are using 60% of the fan power that seems a little high to me, though I'm not that informed on what your card should be expected to idle at. Either way, hopefully the paste solved the problem for you and let's hope you get no more temp increases.
 
load temps are fine,idle temps should by high 30's/low 40's imo

it still isn't entering lower idle clocks of 300mhz core/150mhz memory
 
wazza300 said:
he has just one monitor,thats the puzzling part
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He said he was using multi-monitors.

OP if you aren't actually using the other displays, press windows key + p and that will allow you to cycle through display modes, which will disable the unused 1's if they are currently either on extended or clone mode. In single display mode, your clocks will drop to 300 core/ 150 memory (from recollection). This will lower the voltage, which in turn will lower temps.

For multi-monitor use though, your temps now are fine and as I suspected, the TIM had lost its effectiveness to allow the heatsink to function correctly.
 
change TIM - check
Clean dust in case ?
Make sure your airflow is good?
When you changed the TIM did you do it too thick/thin and did you screw the heatsink on nice and tight?
Check both fans are actually running?
 
murah said:
change TIM - check
Clean dust in case ?
Make sure your airflow is good?
When you changed the TIM did you do it too thick/thin and did you screw the heatsink on nice and tight?
Check both fans are actually running?
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Check all them, I seem to be having no problems now, Seems it was just the TIM that needed changing, You guys did a great job, Thanks for all the help! :D

Much appreciated, Andy.
 
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