High contrast between idle temps and while playing games (GPU)

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parkurtommo

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Here's my idle temperatures, they seem to be pretty normal.
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But then here's what happened when I was playing Sleeping Dogs (or any heavy game really):
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Specs: i5 2500k, 8gb DDR3 RAM, ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 mobo, 1023MB GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

What can I do to prevent this? The fan is definitely not the problem though, it's running at FULL SPEED (which is simply unbearably noisy) and yet the gpu is still at 80+ temperatures when under high load.
 
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Azrael47
It seems your GPU is just a one of badly made GPU, if it getting to 100 degrees playing Dota 2 then I would RMA. Could you take a picture of the inside of your PC, show us your fans configure, cable management. All possible aspects of over heating components.
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When was the last time that you cleaned out your GPU. How old is it.

See what the temperature of your GPU is in a program such as HWMonitor. Just to be sure that it is that hot.

That it is a hot GPU by any means (however the according to the manufactueres website the TJ max is 99 Degrees).
 
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parkurtommo

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This is my first PC that I've built, I built it last May I believe. So that's how old the GPU is. I haven't cleaned it yet, but will definitely do so as soon as I figure out where to get some compressed air in my area...

HWMonitor, FanSpeed, Speccy and Afterburner all give me the same temperatures.

 
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parkurtommo

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To be honest my main concern is the fact that the fan is running incredibly high at these temperatures and makes a lot of noise. And that doesn't seem very normal. I will try to clean out the heatsink, but I've never dealt with gpu heatsinks before, I'm sort of worried that I might break something. :p
 
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I also accidentally put auto fan control off in MSI afterburner and had the fan at about 40% while playing DOTA 2 for 5 minutes, the temperature went up to 100º fairly quickly, thankfully it appears that there was no damage. That seems like way too much heat from a source engine game (fairly easy to run).
 
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It seems your GPU is just a one of badly made GPU, if it getting to 100 degrees playing Dota 2 then I would RMA. Could you take a picture of the inside of your PC, show us your fans configure, cable management. All possible aspects of over heating components.
 
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As long as you don't beat on it with anything, you won't hurt it. :pt1cable:

Use caned air.
 
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It is a cheap make, had budget issues at the time so I had to cut down on some things. It's a Palit 560 Ti. But it only got to 100 because I put the fan control off (accidentally), it only goes up to about 80 when in DOTA 2.

I will bump this when I take the photo. since it's my first build, might look a bit ugly. :p
 
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A cheap GPU brand is probably using the manufacturers reference cooler.

How long have you had it? If you have had it for any length of time, and considering how hard you have to run the fan to keep it in a reasonable temp range, it's probable that the radiator fins on the heat sink are clogged with dust.
 
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parkurtommo

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Like I said I've been using it since May 2012, so there shouldn't be very much dust... But my house does seem get dusty quite quickly hah. I really do have to clean it out.

At least from the outside, it looks quite clean, most of my pc looks clean. Though, I recently took out the stock heatsink for my cpu and it was pretty much full of dust, but I replaced that with a better heatsink. So yeah, if gpu heatsinks behave in the same way as cpu ones... it probably would have a decent amount of dust. (decent in the bad way)

I think I don't really need anymore help, I'll try to get some canned air and clean it out, thanks for the answers.
 
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