Zotac 980ti amp edition (not extreme) 82 degrees when bench marking too high?

[justwondering]

Zotac 980ti amp edition (not extreme) 84 degrees when bench marking with unique heaven with no overclock in a case with good airflow.

When gaming, usually around 75 to 80.

Are my temperatures high, according to reviews they where generally hitting low 70's.

Should I be thinking of dissembling and reapply thermal paste?

Or are my temperatures okay?

How do I monitor throttling?

 

[hardkore]

I'd personally redo the paste. Most GPU manufacturers use shoddy TIM and do a bad job applying it. The temps are on the high side (more than I'd like) but it shouldn't harm it.

Give the heatsink a good dust out and bang some new TIM on. Monitor throttling using afterburner. You should see your core speeds step down with each temperature bracket it hits.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I have the 980Ti Amp edition. I haven't re-applied thermal paste.

Gaming, overclocked on a custom fan profile i see around 70-80c

Have you applied a custom fan profile?

 

[Simon Belmont]

Your temps are normal. Reapplying TIM will bring down temps a few C, but tbh your temps are fine.

 

[five8five]

Have you applied a custom fan profile?

Try this first.

You may invalidate your warranty by re-applying the thermal paste.

 

[justwondering]

Thank you for your replies, does anyone have a recommended fan profile for use with say afterburner?

I'm really liking the card, looks great in 2560 upscaled to 4k on my TV a great inbetween card, I'm too tight to buy a 1080 especially when it can't do 60 fps at 4k in ultra, guess I need to wait for the next round of cards

 

[five8five]

Just experiment to get a balance between acoustics and cooling that suits you.

You could try a 1:1 profile. 40deg - 40%, 50deg - 50% etc

 

[Roguey000]

I had one of those cards. But in my case the thermal paste was bad (as it would hit up-to 90c). When I redid the paste, it came down to 70c (what you see in reviews). However with zoatc do not allow to do the mod without voiding the warranty.

what is your fan speed under those temps? if they are average (40-50%), there might not be much wrong. You need to post you fan speed too.

 

[justwondering]

The fan speeds are at 90 percent during benchmarking when it quickly rises to 83 degrees, I ran heaven bench mark for 25 minutes last night, it was steady at 83 degrees with no droop.

When playing far cry 4 at 1440p everything on ultra temps where closer to 70 degrees but I didn't note the fanspeeds, I shall test further with more information to follow.

Ty all for your help.

 

[Roguey000]

The fan speeds are at 90 percent during benchmarking when it quickly rises to 83 degrees, I ran heaven bench mark for 25 minutes last night, it was steady at 83 degrees with no droop.

It doesnt sound as bad thermal application as mine, but it doesnt sound right (90% fan speed is pretty noisy - I know, mine was at 99%).

After my repair, the fan speed max at 60% with an average of 70c (when hitting 71, the fan went a little faster and brought it back to 70c).

I personally say its not right, but you wont get much help from Zotac/reseller (83c is within their margin of error, even if the fan speed is very high). If interested, see my blog. In the end I got it sorted, thanks to a special guy

 

[wedrum]

Temps look normal to me.