Gigabyte Windforce GTX 670 heat issue at idle - help!

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lokota2468

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So I just built this rig, and temps have been fine for the most part. Using speedfan, at idle, GPU was usually 30-35 degrees celsius and CPU was 25-30 degrees. Fairly normal. This was for 2-3 weeks use.

Yesterday after the rig coming out of sleep, I started Skyrim - and frame rate was very low. I check temps after closing Skyrim. I would have expected the temperature to drop from about 45-55 degrees whilst in skyrim to normal idle temperature afterwards.

But it stayed at 55 degrees! So I rebooted and all was fine after. But this was yesterday.

Today I turn computer on (from a totally off state) and do some browsing, no gaming. Check speedfan. 55 degrees! And the flame icon is next to it.

Any idea whats happening/how to fix? Is it possible one of the 3 fans on the GPU is failing?


EDIT: Also, yesterday before rebooting, and right now, the CPU temp was/is 38 degrees which is ~ 10 degrees higher than usual at idle
 
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lokota2468

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Nothing is overclocked.

i5 3570k
8GB RAM
Samsung 250GB SSD
Win 7
Asrock Z77 Extreme4 mobo

EDIT: Getting the impression that one particular component is overheating A LOT so the 'average' idle temp is 55 deg. Because before when I ran Serious Sam 3:BFE the GPU gets to 66 deg with no lag in frame rate. Skyrim is now giving me low frame rate at 55 deg.
 
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nukemaster

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If you have that much of a heat increase, I think it is time to take off the side panel and check for extra dust in the case(not NOT remove the coolers, just clean dust with an air duster.).

Also, if the case has filters on the intake fans, they may need a cleaning.

In all honesty, the card should not have performance issues until a MUCH higher temperature at 70 degrees 1 level(13mhz) of boost drops off and again at 80 and 85/95 I think.

These a are boost drops offs and not actual base clock.

Something else seems to be happening for sure.
 
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lokota2468

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Thanks for your reply Nukemaster. I seemed to have unwittingly fixed it though - would still like to understand things however!

The rig has only been built for 2-3 weeks, so I really doubt that dust would have been an issue - at least, I looked inside with a torch and it seems pretty clean.

I just rebooted the computer and it DIDN'T FIX the issue - so I was like FUCK.

So I went inside CCleaner wondering if there were some startup programs I weren't aware of. I wouldn't have thought so as I had already trimmed down the startup programs after building my rig. But I found something

C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\data\control.exe

This was enabled at startup, under the program of 'system'. No publisher listed. So I go to find this executable, click on it (no particular reason) then I get a message along the lines of "the nVidia kernel has crashed and been closed". Now temperatures are normal. In fact, cooler than usual because its colder these days where I live. And Skyrim is running fine.

I disabled the exe at startup, rebooted, and temperatures after reboot are fine also.

But what the hell was that executable...?

INTERVAL

Ok. Just ran a MalwareBytes scan. Check this out

trojanbitch_zps3983e1ef.png


So apparently I had a trojan hogging my GPU to mine bitcoins. No fucking wonder...

EDIT: Now just wondering how that got there...
 
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nukemaster

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Yeah that makes ALLOT of sense.

You must have picked that up from either a website or program off the internet. Always watch what you download as well.

They turn people into miners and collect the money off of it.

I would ensure your virus scanner is upto date and make sure UAC is on if you are on Vista/7/8.

What web browser are you running as well?
 
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I use Microsoft Security Essentials, which I was under the impression was good enough...:fou:

I did have UAC off as it made me sad... Okay. Default or is the setting one level beneath that good enough?

I use Chrome mostly, sometimes Firefox.
 
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nukemaster

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I would use the default UAC settings at least then of something that is NOT supposed to need to modify the system comes up you can say no and kill it.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Security Essentials has had some issues for not having good enough detection. I would try something else. Maybe AVG or Avast as they both have a free version.

Please note other virus scanners sometimes have false positives, but better than just letting things into your system.
 
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