My GTX 670 (a few years old at this point) has been running VERY hot recently and I'm not sure why.
I tried playing Black Desert Online last night and within seconds of entering the character customization (especially the face customization), my GPU was hitting 90C+ and the fans went nuts. I noticed this, closed the game and waited for the GPU to cool down, it bottomed out at around 75C.
I knew this was still way too hot for an idle GPU so I called it a day and shut the PC down. 7 hours later I booted the PC up again, checked the temps and the GPU was sitting at 74C shortly after startup.
For reference, my CPU (i5 3570k) was sitting at about an average of 55C when the game was running and idles between 35-45C across the different cores.
I'm pretty sure this isn't an airflow issue, as I've never had these problems before and all my other temps seem fine. I cleaned out my PC fairly recently and double checked it last night, there is little to no dust to be found.
Is is just time to get a new GPU?
I tried playing Black Desert Online last night and within seconds of entering the character customization (especially the face customization), my GPU was hitting 90C+ and the fans went nuts. I noticed this, closed the game and waited for the GPU to cool down, it bottomed out at around 75C.
I knew this was still way too hot for an idle GPU so I called it a day and shut the PC down. 7 hours later I booted the PC up again, checked the temps and the GPU was sitting at 74C shortly after startup.
For reference, my CPU (i5 3570k) was sitting at about an average of 55C when the game was running and idles between 35-45C across the different cores.
I'm pretty sure this isn't an airflow issue, as I've never had these problems before and all my other temps seem fine. I cleaned out my PC fairly recently and double checked it last night, there is little to no dust to be found.
Is is just time to get a new GPU?
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