GTX 980TI High Temperatures and Load.

[Kayoru]

My GTX 980Ti recently got high temperatures and high loads. above 80 Celcius degrees and 95%+ Load. I dont know why this is happening. I did not change anything in my pc. It usually was at 60-70 degrees Celcius.
Is this normal or is my GPU dying?

 

[Ali Tauseef]

This is normal, many cards tend to go above 80C during heavy loads. Usually 90C is considered the limit so don't worry.

 

[Kayoru]

This is normal, many cards tend to go above 80C during heavy loads. Usually 90C is considered the limit so don't worry.

Thank you. I was worrying about it for a while.

 

[neieus]

I recently experienced a similar issue. These GPU's are rated for a max temp 92c according to Nvidia but I understand your concern. When I experienced this problem it was because I recently rebuilt my system and decided to use a big air cooler while I wanted for an AM4 upgrade kit. Apparently while the air cooler kept my cpu nice and cool it created a heat trap where the heat from the GPU was collecting between the top of the GPU and the bottom of the air cooler. Your situation maybe different but without seeing the inside of your case it's hard to determine what's going on. For me all the air from my front case fans were being sucked up by the big air cooler and not allowing the air to flow between the two objects which caused the heat to pool up.

 

[junkeymonkey]

when was the last time you check to see if dust was collecting in the cooler fins under the fans ?? I guess your saying the card was running lower temps even at full loads but now don't ??

did you update the driver and seen this ?? if so may go back to the driver that seemd to be cooler running ? [I still use 355.82 driver for this 980ti ]
how long have you had this card ?? I don't see how just out of the blue is normal

when my card are 67c average then just jump up to 80/90c something is up

 

[Kayoru]

I recently experienced a similar issue. These GPU's are rated for a max temp 92c according to Nvidia but I understand your concern. When I experienced this problem it was because I recently rebuilt my system and decided to use a big air cooler while I wanted for an AM4 upgrade kit. Apparently while the air cooler kept my cpu nice and cool it created a heat trap where the heat from the GPU was collecting between the top of the GPU and the bottom of the air cooler. Your situation maybe different but without seeing the inside of your case it's hard to determine what's going on. For me all the air from my front case fans were being sucked up by the big air cooler and not allowing the air to flow between the two objects which caused the heat to pool up.

I use a liquid cooling for my CPU. I have a fan in the back and a big fan in the front and 2 fans for my liquid cooler.
My GPU wasn't like this before. It was at around 60-70 Celcius degrees and had low loads.

 

[junkeymonkey]

just to add do you recall what your fan speeds and % were before this ?? maybe over time one /both of the fans may not be running properly anymore ? maybe there stuck at a lower rpm do to failing and not giving the proper air flow as when working correctly ?

 

[Kayoru]

just to add do you recall what your fan speeds and % were before this ?? maybe over time one /both of the fans may not be running properly anymore ? maybe there stuck at a lower rpm do to failing and not giving the proper air flow as when working correctly ?

It's been months and I do not recall what my fan speeds and % were. Now It's at CPU Fan Speed 814 RPM and GPU Fan Speed 451 RPM at Idle. When playing some games It usually starts to rise. My CPU is always around 50 Celcius and lower even with games on.

 

[junkeymonkey]

??? most of them air cards had that -0- fan thing like said here on this MSI 980 ti

''Idle fan noise is fantastic as the card completely turns its fans off in idle, media playback, and light gaming (up to 57°C)''

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_980_Ti_Gaming/29.html

to me you had ''It usually was at 60-70 degrees Celcius''

and now '' above 80 Celcius degrees and 95%+ Load ''

if not clogged full of dust I would wonder if the fans were failing to match the cards temps I had a card that did this [A AMD card ] and I replaced the fan with one from another card I had I knew was fully fine and that did the trick = fan was going bad [??] replacement fan all went back as it was normal and low temps once again and still cooling fine today

may see if they will sell you some new replacement fans or not may want you to fully RMA the card if needed to do so ???

 

[Kayoru]

??? most of them air cards had that -0- fan thing like said here on this MSI 980 ti

''Idle fan noise is fantastic as the card completely turns its fans off in idle, media playback, and light gaming (up to 57°C)''

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_980_Ti_Gaming/29.html

to me you had ''It usually was at 60-70 degrees Celcius''

and now '' above 80 Celcius degrees and 95%+ Load ''

if not clogged full of dust I would wonder if the fans were failing to match the cards temps I had a card that did this [A AMD card ] and I replaced the fan with one from another card I had I knew was fully fine and that did the trick = fan was going bad [??] replacement fan all went back as it was normal and low temps once again and still cooling fine today

may see if they will sell you some new replacement fans or not may want you to fully RMA the card if needed to do so ???

This is my card btw EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+
I also cleaned my PC today. Removed all the dust. I do want to replace the fan but I'm scared that I will break it lol.

 

[junkeymonkey]

well evga don't send out / sell fans. they want you to rma the whole card back if that was the case to resolve things

if you registered your card when you bought it [as you should with evga] your a member and can use there forum . may try a post there to see what there guru's have to say on your issue ?

https://forums.evga.com/


''Idle fan noise is fantastic as the card completely turns its fans off in idle, media playback, and light gaming (up to 60°C). ''

'' Given the card reaches 76°C under load, there isn't much additional headroom for additional fan tweaks before NVIDIA's 84°C power limit is reached''

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_980_Ti_SC_Plus/29.html


Thermal limits
Rated: 83.0C
Max: 91.0C
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/172890/evga-gtx980ti-6144-150527