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Guys, i have a zotac GTX 1060 6gb blower card that i got recently. On the MSI Afterburner my power limit is maxed out at 100 and my temp limit is set at 83 degrees. When playing graphic intensive games the temps on the gpu stay at 82 degrees solid, like there's no fluctuation the temp stays rock solid 82 degrees not a degree less and not a degree more. Can someone please explain this all ? Is my gpu underperforming or is temp too high ? I also want to mention that my casing is not that great and im planning on getting a new Cooler Master SB600 L for that very reason.
Your help would be massive guys!
 
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I have the Zotac GTX 1080 Amp and noticed it was sitting at 83 degrees while playing Madden 19 and that was with the fans at 80%. I wasn't happy with this, so applied some Thermal Grizzly...
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It's hitting the temp limit and throttling most likely (lowering core clocks and voltage to keep under that temp limit). That's what it's designed to do. It would likely perfom better if it was able to run cooler, but if that all your cooler is capable of then that's all it's capable of. It's not overheating, though it might if it did not have that temp limit.

If you tell me the GPU core clock under load when it has been at 82c for a while I could give you a rough idea of how much performance you are losing due to the GPU reaching it's temp limit.
 
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Okay will do that. What can i do to make the card run cooler though? Ambient temps are usually between 30-32 degrees celsius when the air conditoning is not on. Will update you on the core clocks under load. Also is this temp limit fine ? As in would this temperature damage my card ?
 
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A new case with better airflow could help assuming temps inside your current case are quite a bit hotter than ambient.

What zotac card do you have exactly? It doesn't seem zotac sells any blower cards in the US. I did find one model number: ZT-P10600D-10B. Is that your card? If so it looks like it has a cooler from a reference GTX 760 on it. Which is not what I would call the best cooler. So there may not be much you can do to improve temps. Changing the thermal paste might help a bit assuming zotac used some not so good thermal paste, which I would bet is the case.
 
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Yep its the same model. So a better casing then and some thermal paste? Also is 82 degrees fatal for my card ? I will show you my core clocks but im in another city right now but as a refrence i usually get around 60-70 frames on Far Cry 5 on ultra.
 
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No it should be fine at 82c. Pascal cards are very hard to kill with heat, they will throttle themselves back to a safe temp long before damage is caused.

Ultra 1080p? That sounds about right for a 1060 6gb paired with an adequate CPU. It cant be throttling back too much.

Yeah if you want, I cant guarantee a new case and thermal paste will do much however.
 
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It looks like it is boosting to 1911mhz with stock clocks and is dropping to 1860mhz or so as it heats up. That's really not bad at all. You are likely only losing 5-10fps at most versus a higher end 1060 running at around 2000mhz constantly.

Is vsync on in your game? GPU usage looks a bit choppy, it's no big deal if it's running smoothly or you have vsync on.
 
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Might be a slight CPU bottleneck, far cry 5 is pretty CPU intensive AC Origins is too. Firefights are typically pretty heavy on physics which is work mostly done by the CPU. So that could explain why it drops during firefights. But no problem if it still plays smooth.
 
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Do you have a 60hz monitor? If so I would turn on vsync personally, which will cap fps to 60. Or just let the framerate run uncapped and deal with the screen tearing. I wouldn't cap FPS via the game engine or something else without vsync on a 60hz monitor. But you can try it if you wan
 
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Yes its a 60 hz monitor. And i will try it with V sync ON. Maybe that will improve framerates even more.
Thanks man. You were very thourough with your explanation. Also planning on shifting the setup to a room with cooler temps. That should in theory make the card work more efficiently. Because of a lower ambient tempreture the heat dissipation gradient should in theory be greater and the card can go to normal clock speeds and run at a cooler temp. One more thing the gpu fan is set on an automatic config and i think its running on 27% speed.
 
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I have the Zotac GTX 1080 Amp and noticed it was sitting at 83 degrees while playing Madden 19 and that was with the fans at 80%. I wasn't happy with this, so applied some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste and the temperatures have now fallen to 73 degrees. It might be worth doing this and is fairly straight forward to do.

I would also suggest using the Zotac Firestorm software where you can adjust your fan speed (amongst other things). Having the fans at only 27% when the GPU is under load is pretty low. I've set mines to kick in at 50 degrees, with a step up of 60% for 60 degrees, 70% at 70 etc. Also might be worth a try to bring those temps down.

 
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