Asus Strix GTX 960 DC II OC 2GB

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Diganta Das

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so i've bought the above mentioned card. The problem is the fan remain off most of the time. Even if the temperature is at 40C. My question- is this normal? is'nt 40C too high for the fan to start spinning?, i'm afraid this feature might reduce my cards life.?
 
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Well, it depends on what that constant rate is, and what the "high" temp is. If it's the max fan speed, then it's only a problem if the GPU temps are dangerously high like 90+C. You actually won't risk doing damage until you're up over 100C with most chips.

If you've got it at max fan speed and you're still cooking the GPU, you either have a poorly mounted GPU cooler, poor air flow in your case, or some sort of malfunction. The GTX 960 is not exactly a high wattage part, so cooling it shouldn't really be a challenge for the massive cooler that's on there, which is probably why you don't see the fans spinning up to jet engine speeds.
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i have that card and it's fan wont turn on do to the firmware for cool and silent feture of the card and it over sized heat sink. with chips 35-40c is standard temps for them. 50c and higher is when the gpu fan should come on. if you want to test your fans on the gpu you can use msi afterburner and set a new fan profile. the selling feature that got me on the asus card was it low noise in gaming. the card is quite when gaming.
 
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i have the gpu tweak, and it has default settings. do you recommend me to change the fan speed? but when i'm gaming it'll spin at this constant rate and even if temp go high , it will not increase this rate. so wouldn't that be a problem?
 
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Well, it depends on what that constant rate is, and what the "high" temp is. If it's the max fan speed, then it's only a problem if the GPU temps are dangerously high like 90+C. You actually won't risk doing damage until you're up over 100C with most chips.

If you've got it at max fan speed and you're still cooking the GPU, you either have a poorly mounted GPU cooler, poor air flow in your case, or some sort of malfunction. The GTX 960 is not exactly a high wattage part, so cooling it shouldn't really be a challenge for the massive cooler that's on there, which is probably why you don't see the fans spinning up to jet engine speeds.
 
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LOL worry when you hit 80 and the fans dont turn on then.
 
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