Ok, So i have a Powercolor RX 570 4 gb, Its a big card with triple fans. In msi afterburner I changed the Fan settings so at 70c the fans would go to 80 percent speed and at 75c or higher the fans would go up to 100 percent to prevent throttling, and I wear earbuds while gaming so I would rather have a loud system that runs cooler if that makes sense. I ran a benchmark(the heaven benchmark free version dx11) and the settings I used worked just fine I could hear the fans rev up when It hit 70c and my card stayed below 72 c at 100 percent gpu usage. Today I was using those same settings on ark survival evolved while msi afterburner was open and the game seemed to completely ignore the settings, my card got well over 80 c and the fans stayed at a very low speed. So I uninstalled msi afterburner and clicked do not save my settings while uninstalling. Then i set up a new fan curve in the amd software and started up shadow of morador and had the same problem with a different game and the amd software. So I guess there are 1 of 2 problems, My gpu is ignoring the fan curve and using default settings which means at well over 80 c the fans are slow which makes no sense, or something is seriously wrong. I have an RTX 2060 arriving in 2 days so a new card and nvidia software might solve my problem but I plan on selling or re-purposing my rx 570 in my old pc that has no gpu so i want to figure this out. I have a feeling this is definitely software related because yesterday while running the benchmark my fans were very loud when my gpu hit 70c which is when they went up to 80 percent speed. just started up watch dogs while writing this, same problem except it took longer to get over 80 c probably because watch dogs doesn't murder my gpu as much as other games. Just set everything to default in amd settings and restarted my pc and played shadow of morador just now gpu hit 89c fans under 1000 rpm game ran ok but If the fans listened to me the gpu wouldn't throttle and I would get better fps plus 89 c has to be bad for my card. My pc is not the most cooled and ventilated which might be contributing but when the fan curve was working my gpu stayed very cool so i know my gpu can stay cool at max load if the fans are actually working/listening to me.
System specs
500 watt 80 plus evga psu
16 gb ddr4
i5 6500
cheap gigabyte micro atx motherboard
2 case fans one bringing air in the front and one fan exhausting air in back of case
So if i'm not able to figure this out (I hope I do) will the new gpu and nvidia software fix this? I didn't order the new gpu to fix this problem, I ordered it 2 days ago before this problem came to my attention. RTX, ultra settings/texture packs without fps dips was tempting haha. But i hope it fixes it if my gpu has some sort of problem even though i'm convinced its a software level problem.
System specs
500 watt 80 plus evga psu
16 gb ddr4
i5 6500
cheap gigabyte micro atx motherboard
2 case fans one bringing air in the front and one fan exhausting air in back of case
So if i'm not able to figure this out (I hope I do) will the new gpu and nvidia software fix this? I didn't order the new gpu to fix this problem, I ordered it 2 days ago before this problem came to my attention. RTX, ultra settings/texture packs without fps dips was tempting haha. But i hope it fixes it if my gpu has some sort of problem even though i'm convinced its a software level problem.
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