GTX 550 TI GW GS temperatures going wild all of sudden on games, youtube and any other app

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Daniel Vartolomei

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Hello everyone,

My name is Daniel and since ive tried to update to the latest Nvidia Driver for my GTX 550 TI (335.XX) which failed btw, forcing me to go to the last stable driver 332.21 my GPU temperatures have gone insane up to 80 degrees C while gaming low demanding games like D3, Aion, WoW and this happens also when i watch a movie or go on youtube. Ive tried every version of Nvidia Drivers since 314.22 nothing worked until now (ive wiped the drivers and installed them on safe mode dozens of time), ive also cleaned my GPU fan with compressed air and push it slightly because ive read sometimes the fan can go out of place. If someone can help me with this problem or give other suggestions on what to do next i will apreciate it. Thanks in advance . THe rest of my PC : I5 3350P, 8GB RAM, 500GB WD Blue, Super Flower Gold Certificated PSU 500W (500P14XE(HX)).
 
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Have you tried tightening the screws to the heatsink on the card? Being a few years old, you might just buy a tube of Noctua NT-H1 and apply that to the card instead. The stock thermal compound used is generally not that good.
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Plusthinking Iq

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80 is normal for a gpu, if you want less get a non reference cooler gpu or find a fps cap or fps limiter, vsync may work if you get high fps.
80 on gpu in youtube is odd tho..... if it was a fan problem 80 is not the max, think 90 to 100 is the worrying temps.
 
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How long have you had the GPU? It may just need a set application of thermal compound, which you can buy for a few bucks. You can also try to just tighten the screws that hold the heat sink onto the CPU and see if that helps any.

Also, have you tried the latest beta driver?
 
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Daniel Vartolomei

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Ive had this GPU for over 2 years now (bought it around Oct 2011 if im not mistaken), ive forgot to mention also the case has no fans but i havent had any problems until now, the max temp was around 64 C (as listed in MSI Afterburn), i wanted to replace the video card anyway and go for r9 270x or gtx 760 since i dont feel its worth investing in such a dated GPU but this in like 2 months. Ive set my Fan Speed to 75% on MSI Aft. and now it wont go higher than 67 C. And one more thing when the GPU has such hight temps( goes over 70 C) all my PC starts to lag even if i navigate in Windows.
 
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Daniel Vartolomei

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No since it shows only 335.23 do you mean 337 ? But like i said ive tried pretty much every driver release since 314 to no succes.
Also ive tried to tighten the screw just now and everyting seems ok, i have some Noctua thermal paste(NT H-1)
for CPU's can i use that?
 
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How often did you monitor GPU temps before updating drivers? I get the feeling that it was running just as hot before but you never noticed. Have you noticed a performance difference? A driver update shouldn't affect temps.

Since the card is already 2 years and warranty probably expired, you should remove the heatsink, clean the old thermal paste, and reapply some new thermal paste. It should drop temps by a decent amount.
 
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Daniel Vartolomei

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True the warranty is over (2 years warranty), i have monitored the temps since the driver update failed but since ive rolled back to older drivers who worked great in the past after 5-10 minutes my games start to lag (even non demanding games like CS 1.6 or evenw when i watch youtube videos im getting lag spikes ), and now ive also noticed the temps arent coming back to normal not even if the fans is set to 90% in idle.
 
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I would take it apart and reapply thermal paste. It's not hard, just look it up. Depending on quality of thermal paste it could be old, dried out, and cracked and not as effective as fresh high quality thermal paste.

 
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