Evga GTX 970 SSC very hot?!

[Jisann_]

So I've basically had this card for about 6 months and I've been running it in my rig ever since. I've never changed the thermal paste or overclocked it. The default settings on the bios has the fans on the cooler (ACX 2.0 cooler btw) to not start up until a certain temp. So this morning I decided to overclock it. While doing so I realised it was getting a bit uncomfortably hot (btw I have no air conditioning in my room yet and I live in the tropics) I changed the default settings on the fans so now they spin as soon as my pc starts up and it gives these temps:

While idle its around 36 deg cel. This is a good remp while fans are running since the ambient temp rn is 31 deg. (says siri)

The problem is when I run msi kombustor 3 (Gpu core burner furry donut) with default clocks My temps got to 90 deg cel. running it for 3 mins and then I shut my pc off. I really don't think this is normal.. Idk what to do can anyone help? All suggestions are welcome

Pc Specs:

i5 6600k Oc to 4.3ghz - hyper212 evo
Msi krait gaming 3X mobo
1 stick 8gb ddr4 corsair ballistix 2400mhz ram
Evga gtx 970 ssc
sentey xplus power 725w psu
and a pci wifi card

1 front intake fan
1 top intake fan
2 side intake fans (facing the gpu)
1 top exhaust fan
1 back exhaust fan

Please help! Sorry if it was alot of reading D:

 

[Ryan_78]

What are you overclocked to? What is your voltage, core clock and memory clock? It will be too hot if you put voltage too high
So how loud is the fan when running the test? The mechanic could be broken or something. Use msi afterburner or bios editor to set a manual fan curve that spins even on idle or certain temp. The curve may have been edited.
Don't use kombustor to test *facepalm*
Use ungine heaven benchmark to test. It stimulates real gameplay and real situations

 

[Jisann_]

What are you overclocked to? What is your voltage, core clock and memory clock? It will be too hot if you put voltage too high
So how loud is the fan when running the test? The mechanic could be broken or something. Use msi afterburner or bios editor to set a manual fan curve that spins even on idle or certain temp. The curve may have been edited.
Don't use kombustor to test *facepalm*
Use ungine heaven benchmark to test. It stimulates real gameplay and real situations

I'm not overclocked this is default! I didn't tweak anything besides the fan curve in msi afterburner so it would start spinning as soon as my pc starts. Define loud? What is loud? How loud is loud? I'll get heaven and test in a while.

 

[Ryan_78]

Tweak the fan curve so the fans spin at 100% at 70C

 

[junkeymonkey]

maybe a stress test that keep running hardware up and up until it hits a throttling point /shutdown / bsod/ part damage what ever ?? as long as the stress test got or sees headroom it just keeps pushing until ????

with out a safety setting it could push a part right up to damaging it

 

[Jisann_]

Tweak the fan curve so the fans spin at 100% at 70C

Okay, so I did that and tested with heaven and the temps didn't go past 80 deg cel. This is default without any overclocking the only thing I tweaked was the fan curve with msi afterburner. Is this good?

 

[Jisann_]

maybe a stress test that keep running hardware up and up until it hits a throttling point /shutdown / bsod/ part damage what ever ?? as long as the stress test got or sees headroom it just keeps pushing until ????

with out a safety setting it could push a part right up to damaging it

So what are you saying kombustor damaged my gpu ?

 

[dangus]

msi kombustor is basically just furmark. and it's quite common knowledge that furmark can be dangerous to a gpu. it puts such an unrealistic load on the card there's really no point in even using that program for any sort of reference. use something like unigine valley and just uninstall that program. it's known to heat the VRMs up to dangerous levels, and i've confirmed this myself with my old hd 7970.

 

[Jisann_]

msi kombustor is basically just furmark. and it's quite common knowledge that furmark can be dangerous to a gpu. it puts such an unrealistic load on the card there's really no point in even using that program for any sort of reference. use something like unigine valley and just uninstall that program. it's known to heat the VRMs up to dangerous levels, and i've confirmed this myself with my old hd 7970.

I used unigine and the max temp was 80 deg cel on the extreme preset, Is this bad or good? Is my gpu damaged ? D;

 

[dangus]

that's perfectly fine i'd say. my gtx 970 hits around 75-80 during unigine valley max preset on 2560x1080

you use the gpu for gaming i assume, and in that case if it doesnt go above, say 85C in games then who cares what kombustor does for temperatures, you know? it's doubtful you did any damage to the card. maybe if you had run it for hours and hours with kombustor....but otherwise it's highly doubtful especially if you didn't increase the voltage on the card.

 

[junkeymonkey]

seemed to me if you go look it up the throttling point maybe set for around 85c ?? [depending on the cards manufacture ]

http://forums.evga.com/Safe-temps-for-a-GTX-970-FTW-m2247504.aspx

it cant hurt any to get evga's pre,x and try your own custom fan profiles to see what gets things under better control ?

thing is if you run the card and monitor it and see its ''not'' throttling at them temps call it good ? it also can be a temp sensor not 100% accurate so its showing you 80c but it may not be quite that hot ??

so if its not throttling / bsoding / causing a shut down at them temps its working as expected I would think

 

[Jisann_]

that's perfectly fine i'd say. my gtx 970 hits around 75-80 during unigine valley max preset on 2560x1080

you use the gpu for gaming i assume, and in that case if it doesnt go above, say 85C in games then who cares what kombustor does for temperatures, you know? it's doubtful you did any damage to the card. maybe if you had run it for hours and hours with kombustor....but otherwise it's highly doubtful especially if you didn't increase the voltage on the card.

I use 1920 x 1080 so I guess I've got not so much a good card. So should I oc my card still or nah?

 

[Jisann_]

seemed to me if you go look it up the throttling point maybe set for around 85c ?? [depending on the cards manufacture ]

http://forums.evga.com/Safe-temps-for-a-GTX-970-FTW-m2247504.aspx

it cant hurt any to get evga's pre,x and try your own custom fan profiles to see what gets things under better control ?

thing is if you run the card and monitor it and see its ''not'' throttling at them temps call it good ? it also can be a temp sensor not 100% accurate so its showing you 80c but it may not be quite that hot ??

so if its not throttling / bsoding / causing a shut down at them temps its working as expected I would think

I used msi afterburner and i've set the fans to max out at 70 deg cel. LOL
I haven't really checked to see if its throttling.. I shall check to see

 

[dangus]

that's perfectly fine i'd say. my gtx 970 hits around 75-80 during unigine valley max preset on 2560x1080

you use the gpu for gaming i assume, and in that case if it doesnt go above, say 85C in games then who cares what kombustor does for temperatures, you know? it's doubtful you did any damage to the card. maybe if you had run it for hours and hours with kombustor....but otherwise it's highly doubtful especially if you didn't increase the voltage on the card.

I use 1920 x 1080 so I guess I've got not so much a good card. So should I oc my card still or nah?

i very much doubt you damaged your card. and it is a good card, im not sure why you say that it isnt. what are you temps in-game? thats what really counts.

also, id suggest reapplying the thermal paste on the card and see if that helps your temperatures. theres really nothing else you can do to make sure the temperatures are "correct" than to do this.

 

[dangus]

id highly suggest getting a new power supply too. sentey is......not a very good brand of psu (they do make a few good ones. yours is not one of them) which could lead to instability (or god forbid something worse) and could be feeding your card "dirty" power. replace that sucker as soon as possible

 

[Jisann_]

id highly suggest getting a new power supply too. sentey is......not a very good brand of psu (they do make a few good ones. yours is not one of them) which could lead to instability (or god forbid something worse) and could be feeding your card "dirty" power. replace that sucker as soon as possible

Yeah I'm planning to get a good psu soon. So change the thermal paste then oc ? Or don't oc ?

 

[Jisann_]

My temps while gaming are 80 deg del.
While playing bo3..

 

[Jisann_]

Guys I just found something really weird. I changed the thermal paste and then my pc boots up again and my fans weren't running so I started msi afterburner and then they started running at 2300 rpm but before I changed the thermal paste they wouldn't cross 1900 rpm, even at 80 deg cel. Did I accidentally fix something?

 

[dangus]

who knows...gpu boost works in mysterious ways sometimes for me. whats the temps now?

 

[Jisann_]

who knows...gpu boost works in mysterious ways sometimes for me. whats the temps now?

The temps are like 75-80 while running extreme on heaven and like 70-75 while playing games but thats with the fans running at like 2500 -3000rpm... What do your fans run at while under load?

 

[dangus]

you know...i've actuallynever checked the RPM. but in nvidia inspector i have them capped at 30% and my GPU goes to about 75-80C

 

[junkeymonkey]

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/420195-evga-gtx-970-ssc-temps/

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2738403/evga-gtx-970-ssc-uncomfortably-hot-playing-ark-survival.html


like said case air flow , room temp . fan profiles what ever can be or make a difference between your card my card and the guys down the roads card ? you cant compare like that he may be in a way colder room or got great air flow that you may not have

if it a concern start a RMA with evga and try the replacement ??

 

[dangus]

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/420195-evga-gtx-970-ssc-temps/

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2738403/evga-gtx-970-ssc-uncomfortably-hot-playing-ark-survival.html


like said case air flow , room temp . fan profiles what ever can be or make a difference between your card my card and the guys down the roads card ? you cant compare like that he may be in a way colder room or got great air flow that you may not have

if it a concern start a RMA with evga and try the replacement ??

well i didnt really ask him what temperature his room is at. generally speaking...in a "room temperature" room a decent temp for a gtx 970 at load is between 70C-80C. no need to over-complicate things. i'm saying it sounds normal. don't start an RMA til you try some things first is what i say. unless you want to be without a GPU for some time...experimenting without perhaps voiding your warranty will just just allow you to acquire knowledge and help you in life. i like to learn how things work, not just say "oh shucks doesn't work send it back it MUST be broken"

plus, linking some other thread about the same topic doesn't necessarily mean anything is proven

 

[dangus]

who knows...gpu boost works in mysterious ways sometimes for me. whats the temps now?

The temps are like 75-80 while running extreme on heaven and like 70-75 while playing games but thats with the fans running at like 2500 -3000rpm... What do your fans run at while under load?

hey just FYI, my fans run at about 1500-2000rpm at 30%. try those RPMs and get back to me on what the temps are while gaming.

 

[Jisann_]

who knows...gpu boost works in mysterious ways sometimes for me. whats the temps now?

The temps are like 75-80 while running extreme on heaven and like 70-75 while playing games but thats with the fans running at like 2500 -3000rpm... What do your fans run at while under load?

hey just FYI, my fans run at about 1500-2000rpm at 30%. try those RPMs and get back to me on what the temps are while gaming.

I have my fans set to 30% up until it hits 80 deg then I bump it to 40%
And my fans run 1500-2000 as well. While playing BO3 It gets up to 70-75 deg cel. And while running the heaven benchmark at extreme doesn't go past 80 deg cel. When the fan goes up to like 50% its gets kinda loud and when its running at 4000rpm its like an airplane.. is that bad?
Its true my room doesn't have Air conditioning but in about two weeks i'll be getting ac. so It should be better I hope I'm gonna test it with witcher 3 and see what temps im getting.