ASUS Nvidia Geforce 6gb 1060 Video Card Overheating

Cherroc5870

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Dec 11, 2016
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I recently built my pc around a month ago (which consists of: Intel i5 6500, Samsung 256 ssd, 1tb HDD, the graphics card as stated above, gigabyte h130 gaming 3 motherboard, and 8gb of ram) but as of a few days ago I've been having severe fps drops during certain games. I initially thought it was a driver issue so I installed a new driver and it was working wonderfully for a while. After about three minutes of playing or so, my fps would drop from 140 fps all the way to 30fps. After messing with the settings in my game for graphic quality I realized there was an option to display gpu temperature and I saw that my gpu was at 90°C and higher while playing. After noticing this I looked to see if what looks like a fan on this video card was spinning and it wasn't. Idk if it's supposed to spin or not since this graphics card has a different cooling system than most, so I wanted to see if anyone had any advice or if they knew if this actually is the problem.
 
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at 90'c reported temperature and considering it will shut down at 97'c the lost of fops is cause by the gpu protecting itself by trying to slow things down to cool down before it burns up. none of this is Good ...

1. if you overclocked the card, reset it to defaults.
2. if the fan is not running at 90'c then you need to shut your computer down, disconnect power and take that card out and make sure the fan is not simply blocked by debris, and moves freely with the light spin of your finger (don't press down on it its cheap plastic)
3, reseat your card and look at the video card fan when you restart computer, normally it should spin for a moment then stop that is normal, start a game but remain idle and see if the fan spins, if it...
at 90'c reported temperature and considering it will shut down at 97'c the lost of fops is cause by the gpu protecting itself by trying to slow things down to cool down before it burns up. none of this is Good ...

1. if you overclocked the card, reset it to defaults.
2. if the fan is not running at 90'c then you need to shut your computer down, disconnect power and take that card out and make sure the fan is not simply blocked by debris, and moves freely with the light spin of your finger (don't press down on it its cheap plastic)
3, reseat your card and look at the video card fan when you restart computer, normally it should spin for a moment then stop that is normal, start a game but remain idle and see if the fan spins, if it does not spin, and since it has a few months, it is probably not a returnable item to store, but Nvidia customer service should be able to help you out in this case as a warranty item.
 
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