Msi GTX 1080 Duke Temp and Fan Problems

[blackjackone5]

I recently built a new PC, and I chose the Msi Duke GTX 1080. I've had weird problems with temperatures and the fans on the card. The temps while gaming in games like War Thunder or Wildlands hover around 65-75C and spikes up to 79C ish. These seem a little high considering my friend's PC has a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1080 with a similar cooling setup, but his temps run around Mid 50's to 63C max without crazy spikes. Another issue I have is occasionally the fans will run at 100% and be insanely loud and freak me out and will continue to do so until I reset my PC. I have not overclocked or messed with fan profiles in MSI Afterburner. This is my first built PC, my second time building a PC, so I'm still new to messing around with hardware and controlling software

 

[gussrtk]

I wouldn't mess with the GPU at all right now. You're hitting temps which are around OC levels. Did you look if all of your fans are spinning?

I think you should contact the vendor, if you still have a return policy with them (30 day ~ 3 month depeneding where you bought it). Otherwise contact MSI directly for an RMA (replacement).

But for sure, i'll say that not all 1080s are made equally... that's why all are different prices, not just the clock speeds change. If he would lets say.. have a Gigabyte Aorus... Then I think he definitely has an upper hand on yours. Many people had great experience with your GPU, but I also found some weary info about it, it's definitely pretty awesome still, but make sure you keep track of little bugs like this and RMA while you can.

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But, another question would be... how hot is your room? which PC case do you have? How many fans do you have? Maybe you're just running hot because of bad airflow in the case?

did you check where your CPU temp is?

 

[blackjackone5]

I wouldn't mess with the GPU at all right now. You're hitting temps which are around OC levels. Did you look if all of your fans are spinning?

I think you should contact the vendor, if you still have a return policy with them (30 day ~ 3 month depeneding where you bought it). Otherwise contact MSI directly for an RMA (replacement).

But for sure, i'll say that not all 1080s are made equally... that's why all are different prices, not just the clock speeds change. If he would lets say.. have a Gigabyte Aorus... Then I think he definitely has an upper hand on yours. Many people had great experience with your GPU, but I also found some weary info about it, it's definitely pretty awesome still, but make sure you keep track of little bugs like this and RMA while you can.

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But, another question would be... how hot is your room? which PC case do you have? How many fans do you have? Maybe you're just running hot because of bad airflow in the case?

did you check where your CPU temp is?

I have a Ryzen 5 1600x running around 60C in AIDA64 Stress test, and a Phanteks P400 TG case with 72 Fahrenheit ambient temps. Airflow doesn't seem to be the prob, so I think it has to do with the card. I just made a custom fan curve in MSI Afterburner and temps seem to be much better, but I'll have to keep monitoring them.