My XFX Radeon R9 280X has been running at an idle temperature of 55°C on my new pc. I feel that is way too hot.
When I assembled it a month ago, it was around 45°. Back then I was still using the Intel stock cooler, so temperatures should have been higher. In all fairness, the weather in Germany then was noticably cooler, about 20-25°.
Today the ambient temperature is about 30°. I no longer have a stock CPU cooler, but instead a water cooling loop that blows air from the radiator outwards. And yet the GPU is idling at 55. Load temperatures are 75°, today and before.
1) Could it be a problem with the video card? FYI there was an odd mishap when I was installing the water cooling loop: the GPU failed to work after I finished it (could not be detected at all, although the fans were still spinning). I had to reinsert it in another PCI slot and reinstall the drivers for it to work again.
2) Could it be malware? Will hidden programs make use of the GPU? When it is idling, the GPU load is nevertheless at 0% in GPU-Z.
When I assembled it a month ago, it was around 45°. Back then I was still using the Intel stock cooler, so temperatures should have been higher. In all fairness, the weather in Germany then was noticably cooler, about 20-25°.
Today the ambient temperature is about 30°. I no longer have a stock CPU cooler, but instead a water cooling loop that blows air from the radiator outwards. And yet the GPU is idling at 55. Load temperatures are 75°, today and before.
1) Could it be a problem with the video card? FYI there was an odd mishap when I was installing the water cooling loop: the GPU failed to work after I finished it (could not be detected at all, although the fans were still spinning). I had to reinsert it in another PCI slot and reinstall the drivers for it to work again.
2) Could it be malware? Will hidden programs make use of the GPU? When it is idling, the GPU load is nevertheless at 0% in GPU-Z.
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