EVGA 780ti Idles at 55C?

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Hey guys, I'm a little worried. My EVGA 780ti idles at 55C, that's crazy right? This is a new card, had it for less than a week..
 
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Is it acx cooler or blower style?

Whats your case/case airflow like? As in like whats the average temperature inside your case? If its high, your gpu will be high. Otherwise open up evga precision x, and see what your fan profiles are like. Then make sure your fan sounds like its ramping up when its supposed to. Try and narrow down if its fan problem. If its not, probably thermal paste/heat sink of gpu core chips is bad, send it in for rma to where you bought it for replacement.
 
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It could only be NVidia drivers if theres gaming involved. At idle, drivers shouldn't have anything to do with it. It'd be gpu monitoring/overclocking software, which evga would be precision x, unless your running like msi afterburner or amd something or other.

It could be geoforce experience, like a setting for performance/quality or such, but at idle, with no programs open, there shouldn't be a single driver controlled software program running.

But other than just idle with no programs running, you'd be more than likely 100% right, im not trying to bash at all.
 
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the drivers will control both the idle clock speed and the conditions under which it hits idle, as well as the fan speed, so yes they will have an impact.
 
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Globally controlled and set drivers affecting one particular gpu?
 
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780 ti should run ideally high 30's to normally low 40's. At 50c, theres not so much cause for concern, but this could easily be explained by warm case, or fans. Opening/Running/monitoring your fan controlling software to see whats going on seems (at least to me) the best way to tell if its a fan problem. Whether fans themselves (since its a new gpu), or fan setting. Running precision x would also show clock speed, memory speed, clock/memory usage, ect.
 
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Always worth a reinstall, yes and no. A reinstall, if the install was bad, means a full removal of graphics driver from your system (meaning a program run to do just this which means downloading and installing that) and then a full reinstall. You can yes just go back and reinstall it, but if it was a problem with the driver, normally not going to be fixed unless you fully wipe it out, otherwise if you have the same problem after the fact, it could still be the driver so your really not fixing/ruling out the driver unless you do it right.

If you launch a program you should already have installed, it will show you exactly whats going on. Then, yes, if that leads to high core usage, the driver should be removed and reinstalled. But if it leads to fans running low rpm to keep down noise, then increase fan speed %, or leave it and at least know why/whats going on. Downloading and running gpuz would also show all this, but I find the program you should aleady have is normally the best option since it shows everything
 
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But drivers aren't user specific nor individual graphics card specific. So unless their is an outcry of 780ti owners, I don't think a globally controlled/distributed driver update is likely the cause.

Its probably just the fan ramp schedule and where the fan speeds are in revalance to temps. They're probably set to spin low at lower temps to keep fan noise down. Just modify and save your new fan schedule for it to run higher at lower temps.
 
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When your running multiple monitors, it takes more (a little over twice) resources to push those displays. Which is why it cant down clock fully, especially if your not running 'clone display', since at all times the gpu is deciding which goes to what screen and what screen needs to display what.

As I said before, the 50c is just over the normal idle temps. Great idle, changing fan profile just a tad, will get you high 30's. Normal idle leaving fans lower gives low 40's. I'm guessing leaving fans lower, and adding a second screen will easily leave a 50c temp. You could still go in and change fan profile. Instead of idle being, idk i'll say, 30%, then change it to 40% and check temps. If it didn't help or your not happy change it to 50%. Try and find that happy medium between what temps you want, and what fan noise your willing to have.
 
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The 780ti is a fully unlocked chip. Its got everything running, unlike 780/770/760 which are same chip just shaders and such chopped off card limiting performance giving a lower quality chip at a lower model number at a lower price. Those run cooler because theres not as much of a chip to cool. Yet the 780ti has the full chip, with everything going, still running the same cooler as any other chip. Not that the cooler cant handle it, it will just be warmer than a lower chip. If that makes sense?
 
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