GTX560Ti Overheating w/ 50% load

[Anthony Tedeschi]

Hi everyone. Longtime observer, first time poster.

I recently ran into some issues with my EVGA GTX 560ti. After about 30 minutes of playing a game (league of legends, 40% GPU load); my card starts to steadily increase in temperature until the system locks up and shuts down.

My idle temps are perfectly fine even if I leave my PC on for days. (47C idle temp, card locks out at 105C, takes about 20 minutes before the card reaches 80C and steadily increases 1 degree per minute from there).

PSU: XFX Pro 850w

I took to time this evening to take the fans off the card and clean out all the dust on the heatsync/tower/fans. I pulled my tower out farther from the wall and raised it 2 feet off the ground in-case it was residual heat from being too close to the wall. Unfortunately I've had no luck after all of this.

Some Background:
The card is about 1 year old at this point. I've never had any issues.
OC:
920MHz Core clock
1950 Memory clock
1.025V

I even under-clocked the memory and core clock from the OEM values to see if I could get some better temps, and this also did not help =/

I tried contacting EVGA, and unfortunately I can not RMA (1 year warranted OEM model). Any suggestions?

Edit:
My tower:
NZXT Guardian

 

[RanriZedd]

This may be a bit obvious but have you installed the latest drivers? It might be the drivers that are screwing up your system. Try downgrading a couple of drivers. But those temps seems a bit extreme though. You should check if the airflow is good enough. 47C is a bit too much for idle temp. And your GPU load is a bit low aswell. What CPU do you have? You might be bottlenecking but I dont see any reason to why that would increase your temps.

You could also do a clean install. Uninstall all NVIDIA drivers and reinstall them. Hope that helps :<

 

[Anthony Tedeschi]

This may be a bit obvious but have you installed the latest drivers? It might be the drivers that are screwing up your system. Try downgrading a couple of drivers. But those temps seems a bit extreme though. You should check if the airflow is good enough. 47C is a bit too much for idle temp. And your GPU load is a bit low aswell. What CPU do you have? You might be bottlenecking but I dont see any reason to why that would increase your temps.

You could also do a clean install. Uninstall all NVIDIA drivers and reinstall them. Hope that helps :<

This may be a bit obvious but have you installed the latest drivers? It might be the drivers that are screwing up your system. Try downgrading a couple of drivers. But those temps seems a bit extreme though. You should check if the airflow is good enough. 47C is a bit too much for idle temp. And your GPU load is a bit low aswell. What CPU do you have? You might be bottlenecking but I dont see any reason to why that would increase your temps.

You could also do a clean install. Uninstall all NVIDIA drivers and reinstall them. Hope that helps :<

Thank you for the quick suggestions.

I should have included that in my OP.
I tried to be thorough but this is the first time I'm dealing with these types of issues and mentioning that I did do a clean install of the newest drivers slipped my mind.

As for my CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700k CPU @ 3.50 GHz

Windows 7-64 bit OS

I do remember running the Nvidia updater last week, which coincides with the overheating issues starting up, but I haven't read any issues on the Nvidia forums of other users having a problem with the newer driver set.

I will post back after I've decided on an older, more stable driver, It's 8:30 am here and I haven't slept trying to get this thing cleaned/figure out what the heck could be wrong so I may not get it done until I get an hour or 2 of sleep. .


Thank you again,

Anthony

 

[RanriZedd]

This may be a bit obvious but have you installed the latest drivers? It might be the drivers that are screwing up your system. Try downgrading a couple of drivers. But those temps seems a bit extreme though. You should check if the airflow is good enough. 47C is a bit too much for idle temp. And your GPU load is a bit low aswell. What CPU do you have? You might be bottlenecking but I dont see any reason to why that would increase your temps.

You could also do a clean install. Uninstall all NVIDIA drivers and reinstall them. Hope that helps :<

This may be a bit obvious but have you installed the latest drivers? It might be the drivers that are screwing up your system. Try downgrading a couple of drivers. But those temps seems a bit extreme though. You should check if the airflow is good enough. 47C is a bit too much for idle temp. And your GPU load is a bit low aswell. What CPU do you have? You might be bottlenecking but I dont see any reason to why that would increase your temps.

You could also do a clean install. Uninstall all NVIDIA drivers and reinstall them. Hope that helps :<

Thank you for the quick suggestions.

I should have included that in my OP.
I tried to be thorough but this is the first time I'm dealing with these types of issues and mentioning that I did do a clean install of the newest drivers slipped my mind.

As for my CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700k CPU @ 3.50 GHz

Windows 7-64 bit OS

I do remember running the Nvidia updater last week, which coincides with the overheating issues starting up, but I haven't read any issues on the Nvidia forums of other users having a problem with the newer driver set.

I will post back after I've decided on an older, more stable driver, It's 8:30 am here and I haven't slept trying to get this thing cleaned/figure out what the heck could be wrong so I may not get it done until I get an hour or 2 of sleep. .


Thank you again,

Anthony

You shouldn't be bottle necking at all. Your CPU is quite good. Just try using a WHQL Driver - the beta drivers usually fuck up games for me. Good luck!

 

[Anthony Tedeschi]

Well I just went ahead and did it. The driver i had installed was the 332.21 WHQL released 1/7/2014. I rolled back to 327.23 WHQL from september 2013 and I'm about to test a game. I can't sleep without my baby working >.>!

 

[RanriZedd]

Well I just went ahead and did it. The driver i had installed was the 332.21 WHQL released 1/7/2014. I rolled back to 327.23 WHQL from september 2013 and I'm about to test a game. I can't sleep without my baby working >.>!

I know how you feel. But tell me - do you usually have this low GPU load in other games?

 

[Anthony Tedeschi]

Well I just went ahead and did it. The driver i had installed was the 332.21 WHQL released 1/7/2014. I rolled back to 327.23 WHQL from september 2013 and I'm about to test a game. I can't sleep without my baby working >.>!

I know how you feel. But tell me - do you usually have this low GPU load in other games?

Honestly I've never really watched my load in game because I've never ran into issues. I only recently installed GPU Z to monitor the load. I am able to push it well over 50% load through benchmarks, but have never bothered to look at it beyond that.

So I just tested a game. Tempts were stable at 70C (which is normal for me tbh) for about 20 minutes, then theyy started to raise. I closed the game once they hit 100C, as any higher causes the system to crash =-(

 

[Anthony Tedeschi]

I do also notice that in GPU Shark and MSI when I manually set my fan speed to 80%; the RPM hops. One moment it will show 180 RPM; the next minute it will show 1150 RPM. Could the fans on the card have gone bad or is this normal?

 

[RanriZedd]

Well I just went ahead and did it. The driver i had installed was the 332.21 WHQL released 1/7/2014. I rolled back to 327.23 WHQL from september 2013 and I'm about to test a game. I can't sleep without my baby working >.>!

I know how you feel. But tell me - do you usually have this low GPU load in other games?

Honestly I've never really watched my load in game because I've never ran into issues. I only recently installed GPU Z to monitor the load. I am able to push it well over 50% load through benchmarks, but have never bothered to look at it beyond that.

So I just tested a game. Tempts were stable at 70C (which is normal for me tbh) for about 20 minutes, then theyy started to raise. I closed the game once they hit 100C, as any higher causes the system to crash =-(

Well the only thing I can come up with is the fans. They might be broken or something. 70 C in idle is very high. My R9 280x is at 75 c while playing most games at max settings and 1080p and 35 in idle. Check if all the pins are connected to the card. I forget to connect all of them sometimes :<. If nothing works I suggest you get a new graphics card.

 

[RanriZedd]

I do also notice that in GPU Shark and MSI when I manually set my fan speed to 80%; the RPM hops. One moment it will show 180 RPM; the next minute it will show 1150 RPM. Could the fans on the card have gone bad or is this normal?

My GPU fan speed is set at 20%. The RPM is at 1020-1070 constantly. So I think your fans are screwing with you. The RPM shouldnt jump around like that - at least it doesn't do that for me.

Oh and set you your power plan to high performance. It might help. If its set to any lower it might turn off the PCI-E and the HDD-