[SOLVED] What can I do to decrease GPU's tempreature?

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Hi, I need to know MSI Afterburner settings to reduce GPU's temp without affecting the performance or any other ways to reduce GPU's temp
Thank you
 
Solution
A few things you can do to lower temperatures without losing much performance:
  • Ensure there's plenty of airflow in the case
  • Set an aggressive fan curve both on the video card and the case fans.
  • Consider setting an FPS cap to the monitor's refresh rate. Unless you're trying to go for benchmarking scores, there's little to no practical benefit of performance exceeding the refresh rate all the time
  • If you're using an NVIDIA card, use Afterburner's OC scan to figure out a higher VF curve to start, then cap it at some point. Yes, you need to do an OC scan because the video cards operate on a "what clock speed can I get at this voltage?" principle
  • Play around with the power limiter. Sometimes the video card may not offer an...
Undervolting the GPU
Reapplying thermal paste of higher quality and using higher quality thermal pads.
Improving airflow in your chassis.
Making sure the GPU isn't sagging, to ensure that the cooler is making proper contact with GPU die.
Lastly, making sure that all screws are torqued to spec and not overtightened.

Make and model of your GPU?
 
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Undervolting the GPU
Reapplying thermal paste of higher quality and using higher quality thermal pads.
Improving airflow in your chassis.
Making sure the GPU isn't sagging, to ensure that the cooler is making proper contact with GPU die.
Lastly, making sure that all screws are torqued to spec and not overtightened.

Make and model of your GPU?
Thank you sir, What settings should I change to undervolt?
 
Ramp up the fans and undervolt.

I'm using the same GPU but from MSI and indeed it gets hot. Word of advice though don't use Afterburner or any third party software to undervolt, use the drivers control panel (tuning under the performance section).
My setting right now is stock clock (1565) and 931mV for the core (vram untouched) but every card is different, yours could underclock more, it's a lottery.
 
A few things you can do to lower temperatures without losing much performance:
  • Ensure there's plenty of airflow in the case
  • Set an aggressive fan curve both on the video card and the case fans.
  • Consider setting an FPS cap to the monitor's refresh rate. Unless you're trying to go for benchmarking scores, there's little to no practical benefit of performance exceeding the refresh rate all the time
  • If you're using an NVIDIA card, use Afterburner's OC scan to figure out a higher VF curve to start, then cap it at some point. Yes, you need to do an OC scan because the video cards operate on a "what clock speed can I get at this voltage?" principle
  • Play around with the power limiter. Sometimes the video card may not offer an appreciable performance benefit operating at 100% power. In a personal example, I have a game that runs more or less the same at 75% or 100%, but it'll happily use 100%.
Also keep in mind that 75C-85C is an expected range for video cards to sit at when given a reasonable load.
 
Solution
A few things you can do to lower temperatures without losing much performance:
  • Ensure there's plenty of airflow in the case
  • Set an aggressive fan curve both on the video card and the case fans.
  • Consider setting an FPS cap to the monitor's refresh rate. Unless you're trying to go for benchmarking scores, there's little to no practical benefit of performance exceeding the refresh rate all the time
  • If you're using an NVIDIA card, use Afterburner's OC scan to figure out a higher VF curve to start, then cap it at some point. Yes, you need to do an OC scan because the video cards operate on a "what clock speed can I get at this voltage?" principle
  • Play around with the power limiter. Sometimes the video card may not offer an appreciable performance benefit operating at 100% power. In a personal example, I have a game that runs more or less the same at 75% or 100%, but it'll happily use 100%.
Also keep in mind that 75C-85C is an expected range for video cards to sit at when given a reasonable load.
Nice list!