GPU heat levels shoot up if wireless card is installed?!

mohadhafez81

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Hello and good afternoon to all you fine ladies and gentlemen here, I'm going to cut to the chase and make this question very short, hopefully someone would thankfully guide me towards the correct solution because I'm outta idea here really, so my graphics card heat up when I run windows if my wireless network card is installed! as weird as it might sound this doesn't happen when the wireless card is not installed at the same time with the graphics card. To make this even weirder but clearer to the reader this only happens when I leave the "lock screen", so even if both are installed and the pc is on but I'm on the lock screen nothing heats up, I know because my card has the "fan" "stop" indicators and they only are off when the fans work and then the heat rises, as when I'm during playing games -high end-. When I install either one of them on the pc alone, nothing heats up and the levels of heat stay stable. I don't know is this a hardware issue? or is it software? and how is it hardware if nothing heats up when installed on its own nor that it heat up if installed together but remaining on the lock screen. wireless card is pci express, and other wireless card which was installed "near" to the GPU which was pci was removed, purchased new pcie card and installed far away from it, so heat is not generated due to being close, it appears as if my GPU is treating "desktop" usual activity and internet browsing as games, graphic acceleration, I don't know how to stop this shit, only solution is to remove either one of two cards, if wireless is not installed GPU never heats up.. If any of you fine gentlemen can shed some light on this I'd be in your debt and very thankful, thank you so much in advance. I use HWmonitor to measure heat, usually my processor is around 37 degrees and graphics card is around the same or 40 degrees, when the heat starts to rise - without nothing even running no games nor hd stuff, I don't know what the hell is running in the background to cause this issue- heat levels reach 67 or even 70 for GPU and 50 degrees for CPU which is relatively on the high end of hot.

My PC specs:
a. Intel Core i5- 4460 3.2GHz
b. 12 gigabyte ram Corsair Vengeance LP
c. Asus b85m-e
d. Gigabyte GTX 960 g1 gaming 4gb ram
e. nomal fans for cooling, Cooler Master case, 3 fans, one in front, one in the back, and one of the processor.
f. Wireless card TP link TL-WN781ND
PC state new, used it for only one year, windows 10 64 bit fully updated and GPU fully updated as well as wireless card.
 
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I don't know you from Adam. I have NO way to know what technical skill level you have. When troubleshooting you start with the basics. It is the Occam's razor principal.

70C for a graphics card is not on the "high end of hot" That card is rated to 98C -- https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/specifications
50C for a CPU is also not that hot.

I think you are obsessing about trivial data. IMO the...

mohadhafez81

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Did all this, nothing changes, like I said, no one seems to know how to solve this, even geeks, it's really weird, like I said, if the graphics card is installed on the motherboard on it's own it won't heat up even if the case is closed, and my case has sufficient air flow, it is a tweek, but I don't know what, something software maybe..
 

mohadhafez81

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Wow, some wizards and professionals on this forum.. "Start by taking the side panel off the case to get some air in" how primitive...just for the record the only solution that actually worked is to disable the wireless card! I still have no idea what's the connection, and I doubt anyone here would know.
 

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I don't know you from Adam. I have NO way to know what technical skill level you have. When troubleshooting you start with the basics. It is the Occam's razor principal.

70C for a graphics card is not on the "high end of hot" That card is rated to 98C -- https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/specifications
50C for a CPU is also not that hot.

I think you are obsessing about trivial data. IMO the best answer to your problem is to stop watching the temps.

If you don't like what a PCIe WIFI card does then switch to USB or better yet switch to a wired interface.

Now I will put on my moderator hat and say that if you don't like the "quality" of the technical answers, you are free to find an alternative. Belittling the advice you do get is not going to get you better answers it will only get you ignored.
 
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