4GB R9 380 Running hot (85+) when playing games.

[Ben Thomson]

I've just got my new XFX R9 380 4GB Graphics Card and everything looks fantastic. However, when I play more graphically challenging games, such as Battlefield 4 or GTA5 then my temperatures go through the roof to 85 degrees and over. I have worked in IT before and I am no newcomer to computers by any means so I know that if this persists then it will GREATLY decrease the life span of my card. I also play games such as Dota 2 and my temperatures while playing Dota is around 60-70 degrees so there isn't much need for worry there. Also, my temperatures while Idle are around 35-45 degrees.
I've used MSI Afterburner to increase the fan speed at lower temperatures but it really hasn't made any difference.
If anyone could give me some pointers on what to do then it would be greatly appreciated.

System Specs:
OS
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-6300 23 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 970A-DS3P
Graphics
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 380 Series (XFX Pine Group)

 

[LucaFire]

Those temperatures are to be expected on the R9 series cards from AMD. As these cards are really just rebrands of the R9 200 series cards, they're designed to run at high temps (indeed, they are expected to run at 95 degrees Celsius under load).

 

[Quixit]

< 90C is actually low for a current-gen AMD video card. I wouldn't be worried about it. If you feel like hearing more noise you can turn the fanspeed up using a tool like MSI Afterburner (yes it works on XFX cards). I wouldn't bother.

 

[MarkW]

Download MSI Afterburner.

On the Fans tab, setup a cooling profile as follows:

40% at 45°C
50% at 60°C
65% at 70°C
70% at 75°C
80% at 80°C
100% at 85°C

Then check the checkbox near the top of that page to allow Afterburner to always control the fans on your video card.

That should keep the temps in the upper 60's or lower 70's.

 

[AreH]

Well Ben,

if you ask me the temps of your 380 are pretty high. AMD cards are probably designated to run at high temps as others said but the solution I am using with my msi r9 380 is to limit fps when play graphically demanding games. I had bad experience last summer with crisis 3 and metro last light and my gpu went over 70c which was pretty high and all the heat was pushed into the case (not out of it, like my old hd 6950 which commonly run between 80-90c, did), so as a result I had a high cpu temps (over 80c). I suggest that you try Frame rate target control included in the AMD catalyst software or Riva tuner which you can find as a part of MSI afterburner. I personally using Riva to limit fps to 30 in mentioned but also other demanding games like Forest and the results are that my gpu never go over 65c with default Afterburner profile.

Hope it helps!

 

[Ben Thomson]

Well Ben,

if you ask me the temps of your 380 are pretty high. AMD cards are probably designated to run at high temps as others said but the solution I am using with my msi r9 380 is to limit fps when play graphically demanding games. I had bad experience last summer with crisis 3 and metro last light and my gpu went over 70c which was pretty high and all the heat was pushed into the case (not out of it, like my old hd 6950 which commonly run between 80-90c, did), so as a result I had a high cpu temps (over 80c). I suggest that you try Frame rate target control included in the AMD catalyst software or Riva tuner which you can find as a part of MSI afterburner. I personally using Riva to limit fps to 30 in mentioned but also other demanding games like Forest and the results are that my gpu never go over 65c with default Afterburner profile.

Hope it helps!

Thanks for the help, I tried doing this and it didn't have much effect unfortunately. I did realise that AMD Overdrive was enabled though so I have disabled that and I've started running games with Vert. Sync enabled and it's reduced it to about 65-80 degrees. I'm going to reapply thermal paste to the card aswell since it's not uncommon for brands to not sue much of it, or the wrong type when applying it first time round. If anyone has any other solutions then I would be most appreciative.