The most overlooked aspect of installing a new graphics card...

[podico]

I got my new gtx 1060 today and installed it after a few days of help from this forum. BUT , after i started playing a game with my new card the temperatures were a bit high, going in the 70s and even at one time up to 83. Nowhere in graphics card installation instructions does it mention this very important detail- increasing your gpu fan speed through software such as MSI afterburner. I'm afraid i might have damaged or reduced the lifespan of my card by missing this important detail. My fan speed was at like 5 percent as default, with default temp limit 83. Thats right, FIVE PERCENT FAN SPEED. WHAT? I turned my fan speed to 50% and immediately saw my temp drop 15 -20 degrees on average. STOCK GPU FAN SPEEDS WILL REDUCE THE LIFESPAN OF YOUR COMPONENTS. How bad do you think this will end up for people who don't figure this out earlier?. I also reduced my temp limit to around 70. I had to dig in the internet to find this solution, fooling around with leaving the side of my computer open to no effect. It seems many people are novices in giving gpu installation advice everywhere online.

 

[Justiceinacan]

*buys GPU in 2007
*doesn't even know what a fan curve is
*system is still used daily in 2017

 

[podico]

Gpus from 2007 will not create significant enough heat to cause problems in your system or card, would probably work even if there was no fan at all. You need to put your components to their LIMIT to test heat. Playing habo hotel on a 10 year old computer will not stress the components to produce heat.I doubt what you were buying was a performance card, but nice meme. I was playing a triple A title game (rainbow six siege) with everything maxed out. That's where temperature will SHOW.

 

[Tadeh123]

this whole post is a bit extra those are normal temps for that gen graphics cards and people here seem to know what they are saying most of the time, it is in fact your post that is a bit repetitive with its unnecessary emotions. So what is your concern with your gpu's temp?

 

[podico]

*buys GPU in 2007
*doesn't even know what a fan curve is
*system is still used daily in 2017

this whole post is a bit extra those are normal temps for that gen graphics cards and people here seem to know what they are saying most of the time, it is in fact your post that is a bit repetitive with its unnecessary emotions. So what is your concern with your gpu's temp?
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I was at 83 degrees for like 10 minutes, could that have damaged my graphics card?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

You should absolutely not have to manually adjust the fan curve on a new card for the card to work correctly unless you bought a Founders Edition. I don't know about the 1060 but the FE 1070s and 1080s wouldn't maintain boost clocks due to thermal throttling. Even then they are designed to work at those temps. Maybe if you have a case with a single fan or no fans at all.

GPUs from 2007 made just as much heat as a modern GPU, that makes no sense. In fact cards today are not only more efficient they have better coolers.

 

[BFG-9000]

As it happens, I have GPUs from 2008, they are HD4870 with the reference cooler in operation for 9 years now.

They have a rated TDP of 150w and an astonishingly high idle power consumption of 60w (it was the first GDDR5 card). They have all of these years idled at 72°C at 24% fan and hit a maximum 83°C at 50%. Using a BIOS editor, you can see the fan curve goes to 100% fan at 104C. These are all perfectly normal temperatures and they are operating as designed.

Your card idles at 9 watts so 5% once warmed up should be plenty. Many modern cards keep their fans completely off until 60°C or so. How many hundreds of years longer than stock do you need the card to last?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Nothing new about heat. 😛