ASUS geforce gtx 1080 strix gaming a8g temperatures

edwardvader · Jan 19, 2018

Hello everyone,

I have recently got a new pc with an GTX 1080 A8G and I'm a bit obsessed with temperatures because my old GTX970 got fried. I have noticed that my gpu is at 50-53°C while idle with 0% fan. I have installed MSI Afterburner and set it to auto which keeps the gpu fans at 40% and turns them up if the temperature goes higher. With afterburner the gpu sits at 33°C.

My question is, is it normal for my gpu to be at 54°C at idle with 0% fan? And is there any risk for using afterburner like this? Would my fans get damaged in time or any other "danger"?

Thanks!

toshibitsu · Jan 19, 2018

You'd be surprised at how hot higher end graphics cards can get. I had a GTX Titan X that upon touching it, felt like touching a boiling kettle. That was just how the card got while gaming. It never fried on me, but eventually when I got my newer 1070 card I decided to install a 3rd party GPU water cooler just to make sure.

piechockidocent9 · Jan 19, 2018

edwardvader :

I understand how you're worried about it since your old one got fried. First off I see absolutely no point in setting fans to 0%, don't know what caused your previous gpu to fail but it is very unlikely it was the fans. Set them up high as heavenly 100% should you need to, easier and cheaper to exchange fan or entire cooler then gpu itself, my old rig is tuned to running with 65 C max temp while gaming and fans automaticly tuned themselves to 70% in order to maintain that temp. Beside little noise there is nothing wrong with it. Just put them on auto, speed of your choice or auto with temperature limit and unless you have some massive heat problems it should be fine. As to msi afterburner I see no harm it can possibly do to your gpu/fans unless you go batshit on overclocking but that will be your doing and not the app. You can always try the correct manufacturer's app like "gpu tweak" for asus since afterburner is for msi but honestly all the options you manage through it are the same, exception being led lighting effect etc. I also have been using afterburner for quite some time and on different gpus with no problems, right now I'm running it along with aorus graphic engine just so I can use osd of rivatuner in games.

edwardvader · Jan 19, 2018

piechockidocent9 :

edwardvader :

I understand how you're worried about it since your old one got fried. First off I see absolutely no point in setting fans to 0%, don't know what caused your previous gpu to fail but it is very unlikely it was the fans. Set them up high as heavenly 100% should you need to, easier and cheaper to exchange fan or entire cooler then gpu itself, my old rig is tuned to running with 65 C max temp while gaming and fans automaticly tuned themselves to 70% in order to maintain that temp. Beside little noise there is nothing wrong with it. Just put them on auto, speed of your choice or auto with temperature limit and unless you have some massive heat problems it should be fine. As to msi afterburner I see no harm it can possibly do to your gpu/fans unless you go batshit on overclocking but that will be your doing and not the app. You can always try the correct manufacturer's app like "gpu tweak" for asus since afterburner is for msi but honestly all the options you manage through it are the same, exception being led lighting effect etc. I also have been using afterburner for quite some time and on different gpus with no problems, right now I'm running it along with aorus graphic engine just so I can use osd of rivatuner in games.

Thanks a lot for the info!

I ran Battlefield 1 for a few hours and it's set on ultra so it's pretty demanding. I've noticed that the cpu and gpu ran (especially the gpu) at 80% load and above but the temp didn't get above 63-65°C either of them. Would you say that this is a safe temp for them? I'm asking to see if I need to tweak the fans more trough afterburner or if my current setting would do just fine. Thanks again!

piechockidocent9 · Jan 19, 2018

About safe temps it's pretty much a matter of personal experience/preference. Ones will tell you "keep it as cool as possible" while other "if you don't smell anything burning you're fine" ;-) I for that matter like to keep my gpu under load in 55-65°C range so I guess my go to is never let it get average temp >70°C. If you're really worried you can always ask at the source by which I mean you gpu manufacturer. Lately I contacted msi about my new motherboard mos temperature getting way too hot for my taste, turned out I it was completely fine.

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