r7 370 high idle temperature?

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I just bought a brand new sapphire r7 370 2g d5(single fan version)
link to the card: http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=06D0611B-8A1A-4916-986E-F899F5BA8835&lang=eng
and I'm worried about the idle temperature of the card, its about 55degree celsius with 25% fan speed(auto), when I'm watching vids on youtube and browsing on the net its ~60 degree celsius with 30% fan speed... is it ok for a card like this?

when I'm playing games like battlefield 4 the temperature goes up to 75 celsius degree with 50%fan speed, I read about a little and that seems okay to me. (sry for bad english and thanks for the answers)
 


I have a modular psu, so there are only a few cables in my case, and a big cooler for my cpu, so the airflow is good in my opinion.

But when I opened my case I saw that the gpu fan was turned off at 20% fan speed. it only turned on at gaming, is it normal? or I should retrive my card
 
double check at saphire website if your specific model include '0db' feature where the fan completely stop when gpu not use or lightly used. in some cases cards with this kind of feature only start spinning the fan when the temp reach 60-65c. hence will lead to high idle temperature. but you can always you third party tool to override that feature so the fan will always spinning. also for AMD user it is better to have the latest driver. the first version of Crimson driver have known fan control problem.
 
Just bought the same gpu (r7 370 nitro 2gb single fan) .

With fan left to auto i get:
-Idle temp from 50 to 60 C.
-Under load it hits 75 C max.

I didn't like these temps that much so i downloaded saphire trixx and created a custom fan usage.
Without getting above 60-70% fan usage under load now it cant even pass 60 C.
30-40% usage when idle and i get from 35 C to 41C.

I guess the fan is set by default to a low profile setting and its only goal is to keep the card from reaching critical temps.
The real question is what is best longterm?Using the fan a bit more for lower temps , or leave it with auto settings?
 
Apologize if this is a slight necro but I thought I'd add in a tidbit: I have an Asus STRIX R7 370 OCd 4GDR5 (has two fans on it with a full alum. heatsink system). You guys should DEFINITELY check your case airflows. I don't get over 60 degrees with 40% fan usage when playing games, and my GPU is right above my PSU getting air blown onto it from that. Idling I don't even need to use the fans and it sits at 26 degrees.
As for the question: If your card isn't going over the power limit then definitely use the fan. Yes, the fan will eventually crap out. Fans do that. But the fans that are now going on GPUs are actually fairly high quality given that they are now their own cooling systems. It's going to be WAY better for your hardware to keep it as cool as possible so that no hardware damage occurs over time. I'm using Asus GPU tweak II to set it, but a third party software will be just as good. I would either set it to be a stock % all the time (if you don't care about noise), or set it to up the % as the temp increases, but set those increments yourself so you'll get the coolest temp. You'll have to play around with the second one a bit more and monitor it to get it how you want it, but those are my recommendations.
TL;DR: cooler = better. If power to your GPU is sufficient, definitely keep it cooler. Also check airflow cause those idles are actually very high
 
They will skimp wherever they see fit. But they can't exactly skimp on something like this. A lot of third party sellers are selling all graphics cards in a few different models, like STRIX, like Nitro, like ACX, etc. to name a few. So, if you get an EVGA 980 TI and that ACX setup craps out on you? Oh dude, you're out $650 and EVGA is out a potential followup customer and probably a new GPU for replacement. That isn't something you can skimp on with new cards, they're just too big these days to still have an issue like that. Unfortunately, GPUs aren't like CPUs. There aren't aftermarket $30 heatsink-fans that are an easy install that are actually worth it. Most of them are over 50-75. And on an already pricey GPU, that can hurt.
I think 0db is more aimed at the complaint of "Holy god, my gaming rig is too damn loud".
 
Hopefully you were right. I got two leadtek 660s (in SLI) fan crap out on me when i have it for almost two year using custom fan profile. Finally decided to ditch them to single 960 when one of the card throttle hard in ACU. Though i believe this could be leadtek issue using low quality fan to begin with. my older asus 460 fan still working perfectly even after using them with my custom fan profile for 2 year plus.
 
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