MSI GTX 970 Idle Temperature

[Arsenic - As]

Hi, my idle temperature is around 57c. I know that the fans won't kick in until 60c and the temp is pretty stable at 57/58c - but is this still a little high for the GPU to be reaching at idle? - It is also about a month old.

Many thanks

 

[spigias]

mine has 52c idle,same card same vendor

 

[spigias]

ooops mistake 43c

 

[Arsenic - As]

mine has 52c idle,same card same vendor

Maybe you have a better interior fan so i am getting just slightly higher idles, seems to be about right though would you say?

 

[spigias]

yes i have fans all over

 

[Arsenic - As]

yes i have fans all over

i changed the fan settings - i now have idle of around 45c. I think with the auto not kicking in till 60c and my lack of better fans on my case it was causing a slightly higher idle.

new case and fans ahoy!

 

[RealIsh]

Hi guys, made an account just to tell you how I lowered my MSI 970's temps back to original idle of 35~ degrees.

So first thing I noticed was that afterburner was telling me that I was using my full core bandwidth at all times...this was what was causing my GPU to be in use at all times (50 degree+ idle temp), even though it seemed like no app was utilizing my GPU. After a bit of reading I came across someone saying that there is an issue with Nvidia's ShadowPlay causing your computer to always create a backup record so you can backtrack and record the last 7-10 mins (or designated amount of time), even though de-activated it still collected a reservoir-record for you to be able to backtrack. The solution was to fully unistall nvidia drivers down to the registry. and reinstall.

1) I used the highly recommended DDU tool at 3DGuru.com to do this for me and make sure I didn't miss anything (have to enter safe mode to do so) , here is a link if you need it: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

2) Restarted my PC

3) Then simply reinstalled latest Nvidia drivers and poof...my idle clock went back down to 100-200Mhz instead of the 1300+mhz idle that was causing my GPU to heat up.

Anyways, this may or may not be the reason your card is running as hot as it is, but it's worth a shot. Will save some life on your card.

Hope this helps, good luck...

 

[spigias]

Hi guys, made an account just to tell you how I lowered my MSI 970's temps back to original idle of 35~ degrees.

So first thing I noticed was that afterburner was telling me that I was using my full core bandwidth at all times...this was what was causing my GPU to be in use at all times (50 degree+ idle temp), even though it seemed like no app was utilizing my GPU. After a bit of reading I came across someone saying that there is an issue with Nvidia's ShadowPlay causing your computer to always create a backup record so you can backtrack and record the last 7-10 mins (or designated amount of time), even though de-activated it still collected a reservoir-record for you to be able to backtrack. The solution was to fully unistall nvidia drivers down to the registry. and reinstall.

1) I used the highly recommended DDU tool at 3DGuru.com to do this for me and make sure I didn't miss anything (have to enter safe mode to do so) , here is a link if you need it: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

2) Restarted my PC

3) Then simply reinstalled latest Nvidia drivers and poof...my idle clock went back down to 100-200Mhz instead of the 1300+mhz idle that was causing my GPU to heat up.

Anyways, this may or may not be the reason your card is running as hot as it is, but it's worth a shot. Will save some life on your card.

Hope this helps, good luck...

thank you for the heads up. i will check it later

 

[LCTRgames]

Fixed mine without any additional tools....

I had this issue today. MSI 970 idling at 60C when it used to idle in the 30s.

Noticed that the Core Clock was 1113MHz under no load in windows desktop. That's *way* higher than it used to be.

I uninstalled the nvidia display driver (just through Control Panels > Programs), rebooted the machine. Let windows auto-detect the hardware and install an older driver, rebooted again.

The Core Clock is now 135MHz idling in windows desktop: MUCH more like it used to be.

I let GeForce Experience install the latest driver, but I used the "Perform a Clean Install" option in the installer (just to be safe).

Once rebooted everything is running right again. Core Clock 135MHz in windows, idle temp is 35C currently.

Had my MSI 970 almost since launch, never noticed an issue before. Guessing the drivers needed a 'clear out'? Or an issue created when upgrading drivers? Sounds like it was stuck in a higher "p-state".. either way, all fine now

Hope this helps

 

[Josef_]

Mine idles at around 47 degrees during winter. It will probably be 10 degrees higher during hot summer months. I really wouldn't worry about it, all that matters is temp during load. Once the fans kick in the temperature will stabilize anyway (mine maxes out at 60 degrees during furmark - GTX 970 gaming +200 +300)