AMD R9 290X Heats A LOT and Fans Go Crazy After Waking Up PC

Flokada · Mar 11, 2016

I have been facing this issue for quite some time now. It is not a big deal (I think) but it certainly annoys me. The thing is, I use to leave me PC on all the time. I don't usually turn it off and sometimes (35% of the times, maybe) when I wake it up my R9 290X starts to heat up A LOT, and very fast, to the point that it reaches like 95C. I have no clue of what is causing it happen, but is very annoying to hear the Fan reving up to 100% and feel a lot of heat leaving the PC.

It's my first post, so let me know if I did something wrong!

Thanks

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

That is not good to leave your computer on that long unless you have a well ventilated case or if it is water cooled, how many fans do you have in the case and how warm is the ambient temperature? If the room is hot already, the fans can't cool it down as well because fans just push the heat out and the cold in but all it would be doing it pushing in more warm air.

Flokada · Mar 11, 2016

Stan1023 :

My case has like 6 fans and the ambient temperature varies a lot. But even at early morning after waking up, when the room is cold (I leave the A/C on, so I would say 23C) it happens. The thing is, it starts to heat up the moment I wake up my PC. It is VERY fast, like from idle temp. to 95C in 1 - 2 seconds. It is not like it is getting hot through time...

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

Flokada :

It could be two or more things,
1. A virus or windows bugs (especially windows 10) with waking up (a trouble area for a lot of windows users)
2. A hardware issue where the gpu's cooler has a flaw in it where it is not directly ventilating the heat from the gpu's pcb (separation between the two, mainly the processor)

What do you normally have running on the pc before you turn it off when this occurs?

Flokada · Mar 11, 2016

Stan1023 :

Flokada :

It could be two or more things,
1. A virus or windows bugs (especially windows 10) with waking up (a trouble area for a lot of windows users)
2. A hardware issue where the gpu's cooler has a flaw in it where it is not directly ventilating the heat from the gpu's pcb (separation between the two, mainly the processor)

What do you normally have running on the pc before you turn it off when this occurs?

I usually try to close everything except for TeamSpeak3 and Steam before going to bed and let it hibernate. But sometimes I leave Google Chrome and iTunes open... I am using Windows 8, fyi.

turkey3_scratch · Mar 11, 2016

What are temperatures when gaming? A PC should be capable of running 24/7.

Flokada · Mar 11, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

Temperatures goes to about 78C when gaming.

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

Impossible unless you have unlimited ram, ram runs out over time, it slows down and fills up until you reset it, this is the reason why I don't understand why people leave their pc's on over night, it should only take 10 seconds to boot anyways (if it really is a gaming pc)

turkey3_scratch · Mar 11, 2016

Stan1023 :

No, not true. What do you think servers do? If you make such a claim, provide a source.

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

Flokada :

Stan1023 :

I usually try to close everything except for TeamSpeak3 and Steam before going to bed and let it hibernate. But sometimes I leave Google Chrome and iTunes open... I am using Windows 8, fyi.

Google Chrome might be the problem, depending on how many extensions you have because each extension uses a process, leaving it on a long time (based on prior experience) causes it to use a lot of computer resources which can cause your gpu to over heat

turkey3_scratch · Mar 11, 2016

No, it should not cause any GPU to overheat, and RAM would induce no heat in a GPU. A computer should be capable of running a stress test 24/7 without a problem and without overheating.

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

A source? You should know this if you use your computer, this is why it slows down over time, it is proven, servers are different, they are made for staying online for long periods of time; however, computers are not optimized for this so it gets slower, your ram stores the programs you have used

turkey3_scratch · Mar 11, 2016

No, hardware does not slow down overtime. Software can, but hardware does not. Servers have hardware just like desktops.

Flokada · Mar 11, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

Yeah, IMO any computer should be able to run 24/7, and I don't encounter any problems doing so. The 'problem' only appears when waking up the PC.

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

I didn't mean the hardware slows down, I meant the software does because it uses up the ram (as it increases the amount of ram it is using as it sits there because programs create more resources as it sits (very slowly))
Here are some sources to back this up:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/377678-can-ram-get-slower-overtime/
and some other places that you can just google

Stan1023 · Mar 11, 2016

Flokada :

Yeah, well I was just saying that could be a cause, you don't have to all go against me for a possibility, I was weighing the reason towards windows it self

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