Possible Overheating Issues GTX 960, Phenom II x6 1090t

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chronicdarkness

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Hi,

I am currently unsure if I am having heating issues. Please see attached:
http://imgur.com/dUWnP2e
I am unsure if that max load temp for my cpu is high since it is close loop liquid cooled.
I have also recently bought the evga gtx 960 and that is hitting a high temp of 81, and I am not sure if there is something i can do to bring it down.

System specs are as follows:
AMD Phenom II x6 1090t 3.2ghz
-Cooler Master Seidon 120m (closed loop liquid cooler)
2x 4gb Gskill Ripjaw Series 4gb 240pin DDR3 1600
Asustek M4N98TD EVO
Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200rpm 32mb Sata 6.0
OCZ Onyx 64gb Sata 2.0 SSD
EVGA Geforce Gtx 960 4gb 128bit
Cooler Master Elite 460W
In a Sentey Extreme gs-6700 Spider

Thanks in advance.



Thanks in advance.
 
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MarkW
What is bothering me is that the fans on that video card were only running at 34% when that GPU hit 79c. I would like to have seen the fans at a much higher speed at that point to bring those temperatures down before the heat got that high.

I would recommend that you do download MSI Afterburner and define a more aggressive cooling curve for the fans on that card. I would want to see the fans kick up to about 50% at 70c, and 60% at 75c and 75% at 80c. By the time you get to 85c, I want those fans screaming at 100% trying to cool things down. I hope they get so loud at that point that you are hearing them and know you are pushing things too hard.

Another thing I have done. I play WoW too. When in the game, hit ESC, select System, and...
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What is bothering me is that the fans on that video card were only running at 34% when that GPU hit 79c. I would like to have seen the fans at a much higher speed at that point to bring those temperatures down before the heat got that high.

I would recommend that you do download MSI Afterburner and define a more aggressive cooling curve for the fans on that card. I would want to see the fans kick up to about 50% at 70c, and 60% at 75c and 75% at 80c. By the time you get to 85c, I want those fans screaming at 100% trying to cool things down. I hope they get so loud at that point that you are hearing them and know you are pushing things too hard.

Another thing I have done. I play WoW too. When in the game, hit ESC, select System, and then Graphics. Below the first box of settings, is a tab that says Base Settings. Lower the anti-alias settings there. Then click on the Raid and Battleground tab. On that page, lower most of the settings one level. It is on raids and in PvP where we push our systems the most, and its also when you generally have the least amount of time to look at the fine details of the game. I actually have the slider on Base Settings on Ultra, and on Raids and Battlegrounds at Medium. I get no slowdowns or stuttering in raids, and I spend a lot of time raiding.
 
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Looks like EVGA set the fans to keep the noise rather than temperatures down, AFAIK all the current Maxwell cored cards can run hotter but the Boost cuts back at or about 80C, so most makers try to keep below that temperature, otherwise the card effectively downclocks a little to stay below 80C (if the cooling system can't keep up that is).
As MarkW says, you can always set a more aggressive fan profile in Afterburner, I like a quiet rig so I'd initially set the third dot to 40%@75C and the fourth dot to 60%@80C leaving the first and second dots alone.
 
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Is it ok if I am a little more aggressive with the fan speeds that you guys suggested? I have no problems if my computer tower runs loud, I actually have about 7 fans in it one which is a 240m so it's already pretty loud. No worries on the noise. The default was 30% at 30 (pushed it to 50%) then 70% at 60, 90% at 70 and 100% at 80. Would this do any damage to the fan or significantly impact fan life? If not I'd prefer to be more aggressive, I like a cool system ;)
 
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