- Apr 10, 2013
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Hi everyone-
Long post... this community has always been absolutely outstanding to me and extremely helpful and was indispensable last summer (June and July 2015) researching and learning and getting answers before I purchased and built my (new at the time) hi-performance rig, based upon an Intel i7-4790K, ASRock Z97 OC Formula, and MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G. So not the highest performance there is but sweet for someone who never even played any video games before I bought this.
Last fall I wound up downloading World of Tanks to test out the machine, and played it some. Usually gameplay would result in temps in the 60s. If you're familiar with these MSI cards, the fans kick on at 60. I believe I posted a few times back then looking for help, because the fans would kick on at 60, get it down to 58 or so, turn off, and it would happen again. I would solve this by just running the fan manually when gaming. No problems really. The GPU usually idles in the 30s. (The motherboard runs around 28, and the GPU would always be right over it. Mid 30s to 40s if I had a few different Chrome windows full of tabs open and playing some sort of video).
About a month or two ago I noticed temps getting higher so I decided to do a major cleaning of the machine... I bought a pack of canned air, took the tower outside, and went to town, and it was amazing to me the amount of dust. My Cooler Master Siedon 240M was just caked with dust, fans had a lot, I got a lot of dust out. Spent like 10 minutes and the entire can just getting dust out of the machine (and outside so it was not just going onto my desk and room again etc.)
Fast forward... a few weeks back I decided to try out World of Warships. I am not a video gamer but once in a while, I'll try some out like this. Nothing serious. Well I am pretty sure World of Warships does not tax the system *nearly* as high as World of Tanks, because in WoT the temps for my cpu and gpu would always be much, much higher than World of Warships.... HOWEVER...
I am noticing that now in the last week to two weeks that my GPU starts at about 30C upon boot, goes into the high 30s during just Chrome browsing, and goes up to 60 during gameplay - so I'll turn the fans on 50, 60, 75 even % and leave them on- but when I am done gaming, the GPU temps do not go down- they go up to 61 and stay there unless I turn the fan on manually. I can let it run for a few minutes, bring the temps down into the 40s, but when I cut the fan, the temp goes back up to 60-61 and stays there. Again, no more gameplay, no real usage, just idling/Chrome being open.
I am not sure what's up here. I sprayed a little more canned air to test, there is no major dust problem right now. So I can't believe it's a cleanliness issue. Could the thermal paste be going or bad? I use Arctic MX-4 on my 4790K/240M and it's been great -- but Google seems to suggest MSI uses very good thermal compound and it should not be an issue. There are videos involving the replacement of it, but I wanted to check with you folks about that first. I wonder if some issue is going on I am not considering. Case in point, I am up to 38C now simply having booted up, opened Chrome, (there are other tabs open but nothing involving a video or graphics really etc.) and typed out this post.
Any suggestions or anything like that? I just checked, it seems to suggest I have a 3 year MFGR warranty, but that would suck to have to take it out, send it back, etc. I have the integrated GPU on the i7 but obviously would not want to lose my card, especially if they take it and say either "nothing wrong" after 12 weeks or whatever it takes, or give me a refurb not necessarily new etc. etc.
Ok thank you very much for all your help. I am wondering about the thermal compound the most here, but certainly would like info if there is something else I am overlooking. Thanks again as always!@
Long post... this community has always been absolutely outstanding to me and extremely helpful and was indispensable last summer (June and July 2015) researching and learning and getting answers before I purchased and built my (new at the time) hi-performance rig, based upon an Intel i7-4790K, ASRock Z97 OC Formula, and MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G. So not the highest performance there is but sweet for someone who never even played any video games before I bought this.
Last fall I wound up downloading World of Tanks to test out the machine, and played it some. Usually gameplay would result in temps in the 60s. If you're familiar with these MSI cards, the fans kick on at 60. I believe I posted a few times back then looking for help, because the fans would kick on at 60, get it down to 58 or so, turn off, and it would happen again. I would solve this by just running the fan manually when gaming. No problems really. The GPU usually idles in the 30s. (The motherboard runs around 28, and the GPU would always be right over it. Mid 30s to 40s if I had a few different Chrome windows full of tabs open and playing some sort of video).
About a month or two ago I noticed temps getting higher so I decided to do a major cleaning of the machine... I bought a pack of canned air, took the tower outside, and went to town, and it was amazing to me the amount of dust. My Cooler Master Siedon 240M was just caked with dust, fans had a lot, I got a lot of dust out. Spent like 10 minutes and the entire can just getting dust out of the machine (and outside so it was not just going onto my desk and room again etc.)
Fast forward... a few weeks back I decided to try out World of Warships. I am not a video gamer but once in a while, I'll try some out like this. Nothing serious. Well I am pretty sure World of Warships does not tax the system *nearly* as high as World of Tanks, because in WoT the temps for my cpu and gpu would always be much, much higher than World of Warships.... HOWEVER...
I am noticing that now in the last week to two weeks that my GPU starts at about 30C upon boot, goes into the high 30s during just Chrome browsing, and goes up to 60 during gameplay - so I'll turn the fans on 50, 60, 75 even % and leave them on- but when I am done gaming, the GPU temps do not go down- they go up to 61 and stay there unless I turn the fan on manually. I can let it run for a few minutes, bring the temps down into the 40s, but when I cut the fan, the temp goes back up to 60-61 and stays there. Again, no more gameplay, no real usage, just idling/Chrome being open.
I am not sure what's up here. I sprayed a little more canned air to test, there is no major dust problem right now. So I can't believe it's a cleanliness issue. Could the thermal paste be going or bad? I use Arctic MX-4 on my 4790K/240M and it's been great -- but Google seems to suggest MSI uses very good thermal compound and it should not be an issue. There are videos involving the replacement of it, but I wanted to check with you folks about that first. I wonder if some issue is going on I am not considering. Case in point, I am up to 38C now simply having booted up, opened Chrome, (there are other tabs open but nothing involving a video or graphics really etc.) and typed out this post.
Any suggestions or anything like that? I just checked, it seems to suggest I have a 3 year MFGR warranty, but that would suck to have to take it out, send it back, etc. I have the integrated GPU on the i7 but obviously would not want to lose my card, especially if they take it and say either "nothing wrong" after 12 weeks or whatever it takes, or give me a refurb not necessarily new etc. etc.
Ok thank you very much for all your help. I am wondering about the thermal compound the most here, but certainly would like info if there is something else I am overlooking. Thanks again as always!@
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