My Graphics are over heating from normal use

Salt-City_Slasher

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When I boot my computer I'm under 30 C. With just MSI After Burner, Razor Synapse, Steam and AI Suite running in back round with several basic webpages I'm around 35 C. I also have MSI afterburner setup to run faster as GPU gets hotter, I got a physical fan controller with every fan at max, a side panel fan feeding right into the graphics, and have zero OCing. I've cleaned out dust multiple times


Problem: Under Task Manager's Performance, Even if my CPU usage is under 10%, anytime my Memory gets above 50% my graphics get into +40 C. If I get Memory usage into 60% I hit over 50 C on my graphics and this isn't even while gaming. Then last night, while playing Rise of Tomb Raider, I played for an hour or two, and my AI Suite told me my CPU was at 70 C. My CPU was always +10 C under my GPU any other time I've ever looked, and since yesterday its been consistently above equal to it.

Questions:

1) Will expanding from 8gb to 16gb keep my graphics card from heating up? I assumed my graphics overheating is directly tied to my memory and I'm sure my graphics head is reason why my CPU has been hot.

2) Is there a way to make both fans on my 390x run, cause the second one only kicks in around 60 C, I don't mind the noise cause my office is nothing but quiet.

3) I'm using stock Wraith Cooler, and my case is kind of old. I'm just wondering how much performance in cooling I'd see for my Graphics Card, by getting a bigger case with a better CPU cooler?

4) Anything that isn't mentioned that might be of use? I mean my cool device from the Sharper Image store says my room temperature is 20 C.

Specs:
CM 690 II Case (CM fans in front and back, 2 up top and 1 on side)
FX8370 (using the stock Wraith Cooler which is suppose to be as good as aftermarket)
Gskill 8gb 1866 RAM
XFX 390x
Asus M5A99FX
WD Black for OS
 

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1) No it will not. GPU is a stand alone component.the only update you can do to avoid it heating up without actually modifing anything of your GPU is to watercooler your CPU and avoid any fans throwing hot air to the GPU.
2) Yes and its called MSI after Burner, you have to download it and start messing with your GPU config with it.
3) Actually that impacts a lot... a bigger case will help but i think actually a case that has a good airflow is even more helpful than just a bigger one... Also, you should definitly get a watercooler for that FX8370 it is a processor that runs extremly hot and the air you discipate makes the GPU and all components you have way hotter.
4) Finally ANY AMD product will run way hotter than any intel build. it will be of great help if you tell me what Exact PSU do you have... Maybe you are also forcing too much that PSU and it heats like hell and its causing to boil other components.
For GPU - i dont know the exact max allowed temperature of that model in particular... But 70 Degrees Celcius should be ONLY during heavy load temps...
For CPU - Anything above 50 degrees is just way too hot.
For ambient- Ambient will only cause troubles or give adventages if you have extreme ambient temps EX: 0 degrees celcius or even less or 30 and even more degrees in the room...
 

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Case

^-This is actually a mid-case and now where near as good as its HAF brothers (I built my Mom's with a (912 which is tucked inside a desk yet her temps are bomb, and she HX650, R9 380, but the Intel i5 6600k.

GPU

^-Before I upgraded to 8370, I was using Phenom X4 965 using 212+. I would OC this GPU in the exact same case but was using a Cx750 psu, so maybe there is something to that PSU thing and definitely this cooler isn't as sufficient as I expected.

PSU

^-I have the Corsair Link plugged in, but I just realized I haven't had the software installed (cause I rebooted my PC in January).


I have MSI Afterburner, but I haven't adjusted any settings on it outside the how much % the fan should be at what temperature, aka I have everything else at stock settings. But I see zero places to make both fans run, like I rather both fans kick in at 50 C, rather than the 60-70 C.

Like I said in original post my AI suite said my CPU hit 70 C which I have no clue how, but then last night on Rise of the Tomb Raider, my CPU was straddling 50 C and GPU was 60-70 C, I know cause I had HWi/Rivatuner setup to keep track. Well I got this "0x887a0006 DXGI_Error_Device_Hung" error that crashed the game twice, and I ran a performance monitor the second time and my RAM was 80% when it crashed. It said I couldn't play the game at these settings Yet, I played the two previous nights near max with 30fps, and the night it crashed I had tons cranked down to get solid 50-60fps yet I get his message when everything is turned down.

1 thing I didn't consider is my Kraken headphones, they were headphones I was using with its backround app running when Tomb Raider crashed. They have given me big problems when running OBS Studio and problems some games, so stopped using them, but last night was the only real change between crashing and not crashing.

Well I kind of ordered another stick of RAM basically as I wrote those questions, simply cause it was cheap and wanted to get it before they disappeared anyway and was ordering a laptop charger anyways. But I think I'm gonna go to Best Buy and get the Corsair H100i GTX, I just think my case is kind of shit. Yet the only case I considered was HAF 932/HAF-X, and they are 200$, and for that much, I rather pick out something really good.


Options:

1) Need to find a good self-contained water cooler that will work with CM 690 II Advanced Case (120x2 up top would be perfect as seen in owners threads). I like the H100i V2 cause in event I upgrade to Skylake I can use it, but also if I ever get real water cooling, it could go in my Steam Box's Phenom X4 965 BE.

2) Find an awesome combo of CPU water cooler with awesome case. Quite honestly I probably have one of the best mid-towers you can buy, at least nothing that will really trump it.

3) All my fans are 5+ years old, maybe I need better fans.

Fan Config:

Top Fans: 2 x 140mm in exhaust (this is where I'd put a 240 radiator, in the pull configuration).

Front Fans: I'm so stupid, I just pulled off front panel to see the size of the fan (140mm thats suppose to be intake), and my front intake is actually backwards aka exhausting air. It must have been like this since September/October.

Back: 1 140mm in exhaust but last night flipped it to suck air out back and push on CPU, but all the air behind my PC is hot from the GPU. Meaning right now I'm intaking from back and exhausting in the front, so after I fix this situation things might go to normal

Side: 1 140mm and 90mm intake. The 140mm is lower so its getting open air and shooting it right at the side of my GPU. The upper one is right in front of the CPU and since its a Wraith Cooler the fan is parallel with the CPU fan.

Bottom: I inserted a 90mm intake fan that is really loud, but its sucking cool air from underneath and is parallel with the GPU fan, so both CPU/GPU are getting straight shots of air.