I noticed the other day that my PNY GTX 260 fan speed never moves past 40%, whether or not the gpu was at idle or full load. The gpu reached 75°C while playing a game but still the fan speed was at 40% duty cycle.
I check the nvidia control panel to make sure the fan control was set to automatic, not manual. It was set to Automatic. I started looking around in the control panel and I saw that I could make my own fan speed control Profile. So I made a profile called GPU Fan and modified the fan speed table so at 40°C (idle) the fan speed would be at 40% duty and at 75°C, the fan speed would be 100%. I made the table linear so fan speed would steadily increase between 40°C and 70°C.
This is all great in theory however, the profile GPU fan that I made does NOT load when windows starts even though I set the profile to run 'when systems starts'. The only way I get the profile to load is when I set the profile to start when a specific program (e.g. Crysis) starts. This is really not acceptable since I do not want to set the profile to start for every single application.
Is there a workaround for this? Is there better software to use for GPU fan control? Is the gpu fan only supposed to run at a single speed as a default from the factory??
I check the nvidia control panel to make sure the fan control was set to automatic, not manual. It was set to Automatic. I started looking around in the control panel and I saw that I could make my own fan speed control Profile. So I made a profile called GPU Fan and modified the fan speed table so at 40°C (idle) the fan speed would be at 40% duty and at 75°C, the fan speed would be 100%. I made the table linear so fan speed would steadily increase between 40°C and 70°C.
This is all great in theory however, the profile GPU fan that I made does NOT load when windows starts even though I set the profile to run 'when systems starts'. The only way I get the profile to load is when I set the profile to start when a specific program (e.g. Crysis) starts. This is really not acceptable since I do not want to set the profile to start for every single application.
Is there a workaround for this? Is there better software to use for GPU fan control? Is the gpu fan only supposed to run at a single speed as a default from the factory??