My GIGABYTE GTX 770 4GB x3 Windforce hitting high temps! Any help?

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Strasta

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Hey everyone! My card is a GIGABYTE GTX 770 4GB and it's been getting up to pretty high temps here lately. I'm not sure why it's doing this all of a sudden. It's idling around 40C and when I play Battlefield 4, it goes all the way up near 78C with the fan speed cranked up to around 65%. It's frustrating me because it shouldn't be going this high, especially with it's three fans. I have three decent case fans (One intake, one back exhaust, and one right beside of the GPU exhausting air out of the case.) My temps in my room are fine, there's no cables in the way to block airflow. So any suggestions? I'm not really sure what to do. /: I just want to play a few games but I don't want my temps to be that high since the, "Windforce" should be kicking in.
 
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80c is normal operating temps for that GPU under load. I have 2 cards of the same brand and model. You can run that card even hotter of you want. 90c is about the time to start worrying. Gigabyte shipped a driver CD with these cards. On that CD is a program called OC Guru. This program has a feature that lets you set a thermal limit on the card. If the card reaches a temp you have set in the program it will throttle the card back until it cools. I believe it is set at 80c by default. GPU 1 will always run hot since it does most of the work. It is also the one you have your monitor cable plugged into. Since heat rises try plugging your monitor cable into the bottom GPU and point your side fan as an intake, blowing fresh air on that GPU...
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Hey Strasta,

I would suggest changing the direction the side panel fan is spinning so it would blow air in rather than sucking it out.

With 2 exhaust fans plus the PSU exhausting air too and only 1 intake fan you could be creating a fresh air deprivation in your case. Or if you insist on keeping the side fan as exhaust then try (if you have a fan controller) to reduce the exhaust fans speed a bit and increase the speed of the fan blowing in air.
 
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80c is normal operating temps for that GPU under load. I have 2 cards of the same brand and model. You can run that card even hotter of you want. 90c is about the time to start worrying. Gigabyte shipped a driver CD with these cards. On that CD is a program called OC Guru. This program has a feature that lets you set a thermal limit on the card. If the card reaches a temp you have set in the program it will throttle the card back until it cools. I believe it is set at 80c by default. GPU 1 will always run hot since it does most of the work. It is also the one you have your monitor cable plugged into. Since heat rises try plugging your monitor cable into the bottom GPU and point your side fan as an intake, blowing fresh air on that GPU. As a matter of fact i'm going to try this when I get home. My 770's have been running a little hot since summer arrived and I have no AC! Good luck
 
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