Fan control issue.

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

So I have a Zotac AMP! Extreme 1080 and I ran into a fan problem. I had been using MSI Afterburner to override the stop fan settings in Firestorm, and for a while it ran fine, I did run into a few software issues and ended up uninstalling AB, and reinstalling, but now I have run into a weird issue that limits me to only using the Zotac Firestorm app, (I am not sure if I can just uninstall this the stock fan profile seems to be locked into the VBIOS and occurs wether or not Firestorm is even running, even when I close it from Task Manager)

But anyways, the issue is that the fans will spin up and then stop in a very annoying cycle until I could no longer bear it and stopped using MSI:AB to control the fans. I hate Zotac's fan profile since it makes my card run much hotter than I want and then it spins the fans up quite loudly. The "advanced" fan profile is not advanced at all and is simply a tiered profile which spins up the fans to the same percentage as the temp. (will spin up to 50% at anything over 50C, will spin to 40% at 49C, etc.) It is completely stupid and I still hate my cards thermal performance, as it would rarely get up 55C when I was able to use my AB profile.

Anyways just wondering on how I can fix this, if it is a known problem, or if I may have to change a settings or two.

My main problem is that I am considering getting a second AMP! Extreme and the current thermal performance is not a strong point and instead of running fairly quite and cool, running the current profile is fairly noisy and pretty cool, If I add another card it will just be very loud and very hot, not exciting...

 

[The_Staplergun]

Did you ever just completely uninstall zotacs app?

I had to get rid of Asus GPU tweak because it was causing graphic instability. I solely use MSI afterburner.

I think I get why you have the issue though...only the app allows you to use the lights on it right?

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

Did you ever just completely uninstall zotacs app?

I had to get rid of Asus GPU tweak because it was causing graphic instability. I solely use MSI afterburner.

I think I get why you have the issue though...only the app allows you to use the lights on it right?

Yes that too, but I didn't think of that...
There has to be a way around it I'm fairly certain I was running my curve for a while with no issues. But there is the possibility it was always doing that and I only noticed it when I changed out my SP140 case fans with ML140's which are dead silent, as well as changing out my 2013 AX750 with a Seasonic Prime 850, which is also dead silent.

 

[The_Staplergun]

Heh, I have those ML fans, and I love them.

I actually use my AI Suite Fan Xpert program to run my GPU fan. I hate MSI's or GPU tweaks fan curve settings.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

I might have to try that. I haven't figured it out yet though, I have the same suite that was bundled with my board. How do you manually increase/decrease the fan speed? They are set to quiet right now and I'm trying to make them spin up a bit faster.

 

[The_Staplergun]

So, oddly enough the fan speeds for the card in AI Suite are actually under TPU. There's a second tab at the top for graphics card. You have to select the second of three options on the right side.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

I'll check that out when I get back home thanks!

 

[The_Staplergun]

No problem.

 

[Karadjgne]

Historically, Asus fan Xpert has been the absolute best fan control software, bar none. The only other software that came close was SpeedFan, and thats so intensive to manually set the fan curves that the hassle really wasn't worth it. I use Gpu tweak 2 on my 970 over the original gpu tweak it came with, much better results. No instability. The biggest advantage of SpeedFan is the sheer amount of setpoints on the fan curve, that can allow for a totally tailored curve, vrs most mobo/gpu software which gives 1-3 setpoints so has a linear curve between the points. Basically if it's set for 30% at 30° and 70% at 70° it'll do exactly what the Zotac curve does, no real curve, just straight line adjustments, % per °.
SpeedFan might be an option to look at.
I'd keep the Zotac software but disable the autostart, that way you can manually change the lighting by using it as an app, not a running program which should allow for other fan software to actually run the gpu.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

Well I was able to use the Fan Xpert 3 software to bump my fans up a bit higher and still keep them super quiet, sitting at a nice 900RPM now. so major props for that. I still can't find the GPU in there, and I tried MSI:AB again with no luck. Still the annoying spinning. For whatever reason AB shows the fans operating at the settings but when I turn it off the whirring goes away... its very frustrating.

EDIT: I found a workaround, If I keep the fans spun up at at least 30% at all times there's no whirring noise. Don't know how good that is for the fans but oh well, i'm hoping to replace it in a few months. maybe the Ti version will have a better fan profile so I don't have to do this crap.