GTX 780 Idle Temp Of 55-69C Depending on how hot room is

[Priva]

I'm using EVGA's GTX 780 and at this very second the temperature is reading 57C and seems to be going up. I'm using the latest version of HWMonitor to monitor the temperature. Yesterday the idle temperature went all the way up to 69C. Which is really strange because when I first got the card it didn't even exceed 30C idle. Took the card off my computer cleaned it and same temperatures... It's strange because when I run MSI Afterburner and try to purposely get the GPU really hot, it doesn't exceed 83C. Running 1920 x 1080 maxed it gets to 79-81C then drops down to 80 then 79 then back to 80C again. And when it gets to weaker parts of the test it goes down to 77. So I closed the test when it got really hot and opened the test again and kept doing that to see how hot I can get it and the hottest I can get it was 83C which mean this card is actually performing at a normal temperature under load. 80-85C is considered acceptable under high load If I'm correct but usually stays at an optimum performance level of 80C while gaming. So under load the card seems to be reading normal temps but while idle scratch 57C it's now @ 58C and probably won't stop until it it's around 59C considering my room temperature is 72F. When my room temperature is 77C the card gets to 69C idle.

What is wrong with my card? I've left my computer on for probably 2 months straight but I haven't been playing any huge games even. Why is it running so hot?

Also, another very weird thing... I thought maybe it was the software driver is out to date. So I installed the newest version of Nvidia Driver (Beta) and the card dropped from 69C to 38C until the install was completed and I restarted my computer, back to 59C again.

What????
This problem just occured 1 day ago out of the blue I am constantly monitoring system temps. What's up?

I'll try a system reformat later but I don't think it'll do anything. I think it might be time for an RMA. This card is def not worth $500.

So what do you think? RMA?
Also, will my warranty expire if I RMA the card? When they fix it / send me a new one will the 3 year warranty it comes with be expired? Or will I be able to RMA it as many times as I want for 3 years. This is bullshit. I hope they fix this anytime it does this. I paid 520$ for this thing.

 

[cabudinen]

Do this and restart you computer, open Precision X and close all programs, web browsers,etc. you will see that the clocks of the card will lower to 324Mhz.

Restarted the PC. I was in Adaptive mode all along 53C and rising

Are you running beta drivers? or what drivers are you running?

 

[Priva]

Do this and restart you computer, open Precision X and close all programs, web browsers,etc. you will see that the clocks of the card will lower to 324Mhz.

Restarted the PC. I was in Adaptive mode all along 53C and rising

Are you running beta drivers? or what drivers are you running?

I'm running 337.50 Beta. I just upgraded to that yesterday hoping it would fix the temperatures

 

[cabudinen]

Do this and restart you computer, open Precision X and close all programs, web browsers,etc. you will see that the clocks of the card will lower to 324Mhz.

Restarted the PC. I was in Adaptive mode all along 53C and rising

Are you running beta drivers? or what drivers are you running?

I'm running 337.50 Beta. I just upgraded to that yesterday hoping it would fix the temperatures

Roll back to the latest WHQL and repeat what I told you. It should fix it, don't forget to restart. I know you dont want to do it, but give it one more try.

 

[Priva]

Do this and restart you computer, open Precision X and close all programs, web browsers,etc. you will see that the clocks of the card will lower to 324Mhz.

Restarted the PC. I was in Adaptive mode all along 53C and rising

Are you running beta drivers? or what drivers are you running?

I'm running 337.50 Beta. I just upgraded to that yesterday hoping it would fix the temperatures

Roll back to the latest WHQL and repeat what I told you. It should fix it, don't forget to restart. I know you dont want to do it, but give it one more try.

Going back to release driver and doing adaptive again. I'll see if it does anything

 

[Priva]

it seems to have fixed the temperature problem. But is this going to decrease gaming performance?

 

[cabudinen]

it seems to have fixed the temperature problem. But is this going to decrease gaming performance?

Nice! No, it should not, it will boost automatically!

 

[Kekoh]

Nope, when you start a game the clock speed will ramp up to what is required.

 

[Priva]

Thanks a lot! I thought for sure I was going to require RMA. I'm glad that it's working the way it should now

 

[cabudinen]

Thanks a lot! I thought for sure I was going to require RMA. I'm glad that it's working the way it should now

Glad to know, and remember we are here to help! 😉

 

[TitaniumAG]

I've found that running shadowplay when you're not playing a game, will cause my gtx 780 to reach temperatures of 49C to 55C even when idle. I turned shadowplay off and the temps went down to around 27C & 29C barely touching 30C. You may want to check if you have shadowplay running in geforce experience.


best of luck.