Recently I've noticed that my GPU has been getting quite a lot hotter than it used to. It idles at 42c, which I know is too hot, where-as it used to idle between 29c-35c (depending upon the temperature of the room at the time.)
I was looking into the issue when I noticed that there was no air being blown out of its vents in the back of the PC, so I checked the fan and it is spinning just fine and using the EVGA utility I can make it spin up (and it makes a lot more noise as it should,) but all the same, no air out of the back. The card (and every other component) has recently been blown out with compressed air to clear the dust also.
Lastly, it takes the card forever to cool back down once it has reached a high temperature. As in if it gets to 70c, it'll take it half an hour or so to finally cool itself down to 40c and that is with the fan speed maxed out. Pretty much any game newer than Oblivion causes it to get in the 90s and in a few cases it has completely shut the computer down to cool itself. I was in the past able to run Skyrim with many graphical mods and the highest I ever saw it get was 75c-80c, sometimes a bit more.
Any idea of what could be wrong? ... And if this is the wrong area of the forum I do apologize in advance. :/
I was looking into the issue when I noticed that there was no air being blown out of its vents in the back of the PC, so I checked the fan and it is spinning just fine and using the EVGA utility I can make it spin up (and it makes a lot more noise as it should,) but all the same, no air out of the back. The card (and every other component) has recently been blown out with compressed air to clear the dust also.
Lastly, it takes the card forever to cool back down once it has reached a high temperature. As in if it gets to 70c, it'll take it half an hour or so to finally cool itself down to 40c and that is with the fan speed maxed out. Pretty much any game newer than Oblivion causes it to get in the 90s and in a few cases it has completely shut the computer down to cool itself. I was in the past able to run Skyrim with many graphical mods and the highest I ever saw it get was 75c-80c, sometimes a bit more.
Any idea of what could be wrong? ... And if this is the wrong area of the forum I do apologize in advance. :/