Video Card Overheating

[Brandon_172]

So basically, I received a Gigabyte GTX 580 from my friend since he upgraded. Currently, this card is overheating for me, and this was the reason he gave it away.

The problem is quite puzzling, to me anyways, since this specific model has 3 fans, overheating should NOT be anywhere near an issue.
Since my case, a cooler master haf 922 has tons of airflow, I assumed that this must be a problem with thermal conduction to the heat sink, so I went ahead and remove the heat sink, to find nice and dry thermal paste, so I cleaned it off and replaced it with Arctic Silver 5, however now it is seeming to still over heat, as it is at 82 degrees Celsius at IDLE with only google chrome running.

Any tips?

 

[Brandon_172]

Update - Upon further inspecting the video card, I noticed only 1/3 fans were active at the 83 degree celcius idle temp, which is quite high, so i have the other two a little light finger spin, one of them kicked on, the other turns via finger but almost feels like it wants to go backwards..

Now with the two running, idle temp is 72 celcius which is bareable, but still hot, and Open Hardware Monitor cant seem to detect the multiple fans, and setting its single detection of "GPU Fan" to 100% changes nothing.

Also looked at SpeedFan and it detects all three fans, however it states fan one is at 11 rpm, which is not accurate at all, and fan 2 at 2756 rpm which seems too high as they seem to be same speed, and then fan 3 0 rpm which is correct.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Looks like you just solved it yourself - the cooler needs to be replaced, plain and simple.

 

[dontlistentome]

if it's just the fans, you could open the hub and drop a tiny bit of oil in there to lubricate them. I use sewing machine oil, since it's made for high speed use. Youtube has many videos showing this.

 

[Brandon_172]

See, I'd open the hub and oil, which I might do, but I believe this might be some sort of software limitation for when the middle fan spins or something, however I cannot seem to find much information on Gigabyte's gtx 580.

Also - Does anyone happen to know or have a button on their VCard that says " X xtreme" on it? I have that on my card, and I've pressed it twice, it doesn't do anything that I notice, some elaboration on its function would be amazing.

 

[Brandon_172]

And as per ThatVietGuy's answer, I am not willing to replace an entire cooling unit on my GTX 580, as I currently lack the budget, and regardless would rather compromise so that I don't have to change it, even if I had the spare change.