980ti Amp! Extreme fans revving and stopping repeatedly

Embidd · Nov 30, 2016

I've had this Zotac 980ti Amp! Extreme since around February of this year, and I've had no problems out of it; until now. Literally a few days ago the fans just started revving to about 30% and back down to 0% non-stop, I had a custom fan curve setup in Afterburner which didn't tell the fans to kick on until about 60ºc and then slowly increase fan speed as the card got hotter. I've been fooling around with the curve and other fan settings to get it to stop, and it will for a little bit, but as soon as the card gets around 55º it starts freaking out and won't stop until it cools down a bit.

Like I've said, this is a recent issue, the card has never had this problem before now and I haven't been fooling around with any software OR hardware in the computer for a few months. I got it how I liked it and just left it alone.

Also, of course the fans were acting fine when I wanted to take this screen shot lol

chemmajorp53 · Nov 30, 2016

Do you always have afterbuner on? Because the fan curve you have set in the program will only work if the program is open. I have mine set to open minimized with windows.

Embidd · Nov 30, 2016

chemmajorp53 :

I assume so yeah, I have it set to "apply overclocking at system startup", is that the same thing?

chemmajorp53 · Nov 30, 2016

Nope, go to settings and click "start with windows" and "start minimized"

Embidd · Dec 1, 2016

chemmajorp53 :

Okay I did that, thanks, I hope that fixes the problem. Why would this happen all of a sudden though? Could Nvidia drivers be causing an issue like this? Because I recently installed a driver from 2014 so that Borderlands 2 would run at a decent framerate.

chemmajorp53 · Dec 1, 2016

No idea tbh, computers are fickle with all the software being updated all the time

Embidd · Dec 2, 2016

chemmajorp53 :

Okay, that's kind of what I thought. Maybe remove this version of Afterburner and install 4.2.0 again.

Your suggestion seems to have worked somewhat; the fan doesn't freak out by itself anymore, though it does kind of freak out when it hits the temperature threshold that actually kicks the fans on. TBH though, I can kind of deal with that for now.

junkeymonkey · Dec 2, 2016

this guys lasted about a year as well ?

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3253024/zotac-980ti-amp-extreme-working-properly.html

I think zotac tried to over do it a bit

good luck

chemmajorp53 · Dec 3, 2016

what do you have set as the fan speed when it first spins up in the afterburner fan curve? Might want to make it 15-20 and maybe it won't make so much noise

junkeymonkey · Dec 3, 2016

my 7850 fan went crazy but just replacing the fan did the trick nothing wrong with the card but something in the fan motor I guess went bad ?

may contact zotac to se if they will mail you a replacement fan/s or if you got a old gpu that's got a known good fan pull it out and try it to see how it behaves [pretty much what I did to determine the 7850's issue ] so that showed it was not card related just fans went bad ?

looks like a few zotac fan issues just from here ?

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/all.html?refine=zotac+fans+

Embidd · Dec 3, 2016

chemmajorp53 :

Yeah, that might work, but I like the fanless mode of the 900 series cards. It was one of the main reasons I switched from my 780ti.

Embidd · Dec 3, 2016

Question to everyone: If I didn't have Afterburner installed would the GPU BIOS have it's own default fan curve? And if so, is there a way to access that BIOS?

EpIckFa1LJoN · Dec 3, 2016

Might be a conflict with the stock fan profile and the Afterburner profile. I have the 1080 AMP Extreme and I know 2 things. 1.) Unless the Afterburner window is open and on the screen the fan profile will not work. 2.) the stock profile can and will override the Afterburner profile if you adjust the Zotac software AFTER adjusting the MSI software.

EDIT: Nevermind, I've been testing my stuff since and my MSI just overrided my Firestorm lol

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2016

yes all card have a default fan curve and a lot of these newer cards have that -0- fan thing where the fans may not come on or spin up until the card reaches a certain temp like say 60c for example

when the card reaches 60c [or what ever its set to ] they come on and spin up to what ever RPM's and then increase as the card gets hotter . so sau once more the card hits 60c and the fans start out at 33% speed then the card heat up to now 70 c the fans may spin at 45% and so on to maintain ....

so what your seeing may be all due to that

like I was saying above your card got 3 fans one may be bad and causing the rest to goof ??? or just not working properly??

look around your not the only one

http://www.overclock.net/t/1565278/zotac-gtx-980-ti-amp-unstable-fan-rpm

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4s66yb/zotac_1080_amp_extreme_fan_revving_can_anyone/

''However, every now and then the fans pulsed to higher RPM levels for a split second before settling down again. To show what’s happening, we graphed the fan speeds below. ''

''For whatever reason, the fan controller kicks things up a notch to double-time at random intervals''

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/69824-zotac-gtx-980-ti-amp-extreme-review-5.html

Embidd · Dec 4, 2016

junkeymonkey :

I looked into the links you sent, and I've done a little bit of Google searching (though TBH it was for replacement fans) and I came across a video where the guy is having problems with his on-card fan controller, and apparently that is a major issue with the Amp Extremes.

Damn it, I knew I should have just stuck with the Asus cards! Anyway, that seems to be the issue here, either the fan controller or an actual fan(s), either way this is an issue for Zotac now. I'll contact them tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks for the help.

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2016

well in my opinion those who know NVidia know evga .. your like the 4th zotac guy I tried to help in 3 days ?/

Embidd · Dec 4, 2016

junkeymonkey :

While I have you here...

What do you think about the EVGA cards? I've always like the Classified cards but they were just so expensive.

junkeymonkey · Dec 5, 2016

well it times like this if you need service and rma there there and easy to deal with .. all I use is evga I use a 980 ti hybrid now .

there all NVidia cards under the cooler but it who if you get a lemon will take care of it quick and the least hoop jumping to do so ?

about all evga truns down is physical damage to the card [end user abuse ] then I seen them be a little forgiving on that at times .

of course where you live makes a diff. like having to ship it back to them in the U.S.A in my opinion no one comes close

I guess you have to google it up and see how they treat there customers ? or ask in a new thread here

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