This will be a long thread, and while I will try to not post useless info I'd appreciate it if anyone willing to help would be able to read everything to understand my situation to know what I'm dealing with.
A few weeks ago, I've got my MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming (https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GTX-980-Ti-GAMING-6G.html) card and immediately once I got it, I fired up the games that I played to see how it performs @ 1440p. The card is excellent, it provides very high FPS (60+) in many games, boost itself to 1350 MHz when any game is opened, is quiet etc... But ofcourse there is a problem, and that problem are temperatures.
When the fan is at automatic mode (no custom fan curve), the temps of the cards were at 54-57C, when a game is opened and played for awhile the temps get very fast to the temp limit (83C). I posted this in another forum and was recommended to improve my cooling and reapply TIM. I do both things by buying additional 3 fans (all intake 2x front, 1x bottom) and disassembling my GPU and reapplying the TIM (X method was used here). After all of that was done, I can say that the temps while they did drop didn't drop by much at both idle and load (3-5C).
After this I still didn't like the 80C temps and have gone and set my own custom profile (https://imgur.com/C49Z4fO). Now the temps are at 37-40C at idle and 70-77C at load, and also the worst part about this is that the fans are spinning 95-100% at those temps and it's still in high 70's ?!?! Why ? .
This is the temp issue which I'm talking about, why would it require almost 100% of fan speed just to keep the temps at high 70's ? I have to mention that I tried to OC my card, and managed to go up to +115 on the core speed in Afterburner, but the temps then rise to 80-84C with fans still spinning at 100%.
Also me taking the side panel off doesn't change temps at all.
I hope anyone might know how to help me solve this issue, as this is the only thing that is stopping me from gaming normally since I'm too much worried about this.
Any questions on any info which I've missed, please ask.
Also my ASIC is 77.5% , I'm on stock cooling (Twin Frozr) and stock BIOS.
My specs:
CPU: i5 2500K @ 4.5 GHz
GPU: MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming Edition
Motherboard: AsRock Z77 Extreme4
RAM: Patriot 8GB (2x4GB) 1600 MHz
CASE: Fractal Design Define R5
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB HD103SJ
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex Gold 650W
Thanks.
A few weeks ago, I've got my MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming (https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GTX-980-Ti-GAMING-6G.html) card and immediately once I got it, I fired up the games that I played to see how it performs @ 1440p. The card is excellent, it provides very high FPS (60+) in many games, boost itself to 1350 MHz when any game is opened, is quiet etc... But ofcourse there is a problem, and that problem are temperatures.
When the fan is at automatic mode (no custom fan curve), the temps of the cards were at 54-57C, when a game is opened and played for awhile the temps get very fast to the temp limit (83C). I posted this in another forum and was recommended to improve my cooling and reapply TIM. I do both things by buying additional 3 fans (all intake 2x front, 1x bottom) and disassembling my GPU and reapplying the TIM (X method was used here). After all of that was done, I can say that the temps while they did drop didn't drop by much at both idle and load (3-5C).
After this I still didn't like the 80C temps and have gone and set my own custom profile (https://imgur.com/C49Z4fO). Now the temps are at 37-40C at idle and 70-77C at load, and also the worst part about this is that the fans are spinning 95-100% at those temps and it's still in high 70's ?!?! Why ? .
This is the temp issue which I'm talking about, why would it require almost 100% of fan speed just to keep the temps at high 70's ? I have to mention that I tried to OC my card, and managed to go up to +115 on the core speed in Afterburner, but the temps then rise to 80-84C with fans still spinning at 100%.
Also me taking the side panel off doesn't change temps at all.
I hope anyone might know how to help me solve this issue, as this is the only thing that is stopping me from gaming normally since I'm too much worried about this.
Any questions on any info which I've missed, please ask.
Also my ASIC is 77.5% , I'm on stock cooling (Twin Frozr) and stock BIOS.
My specs:
CPU: i5 2500K @ 4.5 GHz
GPU: MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming Edition
Motherboard: AsRock Z77 Extreme4
RAM: Patriot 8GB (2x4GB) 1600 MHz
CASE: Fractal Design Define R5
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB HD103SJ
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex Gold 650W
Thanks.