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Hello Tom's Hardware experts. Thanks for visiting my post. I'm willing to choose the best solution for the best answer.
I bought a GTX 970 reference EVGA model. It's not overclocked, it has a blower fan, similar to the reference model. It runs hot, really hot. When gaming it goes all the way up to the 80c which is it's TJmax, and starts throttling, going from 1200+MHz to 1070MHz, yeah this is the turbo boost going down, on idle it sits at 53c. I created a fan curve and it now runs at 76c with an overclock running at 1440MHz at turbo boost at 90% fan speed, and sits at 48c when idle. I then went to NVidia's control panel and changed the Power management mode from "Prefer maximum performance" to "Adaptive" idle temps go down from 48c to 32c, max temps stays the same. However, people complains that "Adaptive" power management can decrease the graphics card performance, since it will not use it's maximum power capability, even though on MSI Afterburner it says that the power usage is 101%. Tested on firestrike and the score with "Adptive" mode is 10563, on the other hand with the"Prefer maximum performance"mode the score is 10364 weird isn't it? I have to play with VSync on, otherwise it starts heating, and fan speeds have to go all the way to 90+% to cool it down. And the thing about VSync is that sometimes framerate drops happens, and it's annoying, the GPU usage is always at around 20/40/60%. I play on 1600x900 monitor, and FPS drops happens...
This card is weird, it's the first "Real" gaming card I've had on my PC gaming life. So I'm not used to how these higher range cards works. (I used to have mid/low range cards such as GTX 460s, 550Tis, 750Tis). I'm kinda disappointed. What I want to know is, is this how a GTX 970 performs? is it normal? What would you do on my situation? Open the card and change thermal paste? Buy another card? Any suggestion, or helpful information would be much appreciated. When I replaced my GPU I did not reinstall the drivers, I have no issues with drivers crashing, (I had the 750 Ti in here) but could that be the reason it's heating? Nah couldn't be.
This is my specs if needed:
OS: Windows 10 - Drivers up to date 364.72
CPU: Intel Core i7 4790 (non K)
RAM: 16GB RAM DDR3 1333MHz (4+4+4+4)
GPU: The weird GTX 970
Thanks in advance, sorry for the long text. I'm just worried, or anxious, or upset. Kinda.
I bought a GTX 970 reference EVGA model. It's not overclocked, it has a blower fan, similar to the reference model. It runs hot, really hot. When gaming it goes all the way up to the 80c which is it's TJmax, and starts throttling, going from 1200+MHz to 1070MHz, yeah this is the turbo boost going down, on idle it sits at 53c. I created a fan curve and it now runs at 76c with an overclock running at 1440MHz at turbo boost at 90% fan speed, and sits at 48c when idle. I then went to NVidia's control panel and changed the Power management mode from "Prefer maximum performance" to "Adaptive" idle temps go down from 48c to 32c, max temps stays the same. However, people complains that "Adaptive" power management can decrease the graphics card performance, since it will not use it's maximum power capability, even though on MSI Afterburner it says that the power usage is 101%. Tested on firestrike and the score with "Adptive" mode is 10563, on the other hand with the"Prefer maximum performance"mode the score is 10364 weird isn't it? I have to play with VSync on, otherwise it starts heating, and fan speeds have to go all the way to 90+% to cool it down. And the thing about VSync is that sometimes framerate drops happens, and it's annoying, the GPU usage is always at around 20/40/60%. I play on 1600x900 monitor, and FPS drops happens...
This card is weird, it's the first "Real" gaming card I've had on my PC gaming life. So I'm not used to how these higher range cards works. (I used to have mid/low range cards such as GTX 460s, 550Tis, 750Tis). I'm kinda disappointed. What I want to know is, is this how a GTX 970 performs? is it normal? What would you do on my situation? Open the card and change thermal paste? Buy another card? Any suggestion, or helpful information would be much appreciated. When I replaced my GPU I did not reinstall the drivers, I have no issues with drivers crashing, (I had the 750 Ti in here) but could that be the reason it's heating? Nah couldn't be.
This is my specs if needed:
OS: Windows 10 - Drivers up to date 364.72
CPU: Intel Core i7 4790 (non K)
RAM: 16GB RAM DDR3 1333MHz (4+4+4+4)
GPU: The weird GTX 970
Thanks in advance, sorry for the long text. I'm just worried, or anxious, or upset. Kinda.
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