gigabyte gtx 660 high temperature

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im playing Need for speed Payback and Battlefield 1 they are running good but the temperatures getting too high is there anything i can do? sometimes it reaches 91c in Battlefield 1 and Need for speed Payback reaches 87c

planning to get Gigabyte GTX 1050 4gb maybe is there going to be any difference in performance?
and temperature specifically??

Power supply: HEC TE-WX Series 600w
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P75-D3
CPU: i5-3450 3.1GHz
VGA Card: Gigabyte GTX 660 GV-N660OC-3GD
RAM: 2 x Kingston 4GB 1600MHz DDR3

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pete_101

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The card shouldn't be running that hot. First thing to do is blow out all the dust from the cooler. If you've done that and it's still hot, check the fan/s speed, make sure it's running fast enough. If it's still hot, then you probably need to remove the cooler and replace the thermal paste....there are many Youtube videos on how do to this.

The GTX 1050 performs a bit better than the 660, uses way less power and would run a lot cooler.....you should probably be looking at the 1050ti, your CPU is more than good enough to run it, as is your PSU.
 
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I had a 660Ti (and still do - not using it anymore) and I don't recall it ever getting that hot. It is, after all, a 2GB card and it's right on the bottom of what is even playable on the game. Do you have anything on it overclocked or is it all stock settings? How old is it? I'm wondering if your thermal paste is dried out on it and not conducting the heat to the sinks well enough to be vacated?

A move to a newer series card with more RAM would certainly help in the performance side of things.
 
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A few things you can do.
1. Blow out the heat sink if you havent done that in a while.
2. Apply some fresh thermal paste, I'm sure the stuff thats on there is old and dried out by now.
3. Download MSI Afterburner and tweak your fan curve to be more aggressive.

I did this with a GTX 670 and it was maxing at around 88C and idling around 50. After these steps it idles around 36 to 38 and loads around 72.
 
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I find that the thermal paste in Gigabyte cards lasts about 5 years which your 660 is probably past. Clean out the cooler (fan and heatsink) with air and a toothbrush, getting as much gunk out as you can. Remove it carefully (saving any thermal pads and noting their locations) and clean the contact point of the heatsink and GPU with 99% isopropyl alcohol. Replace the old thermal paste with something non-conductive and non-capacitive like Arctic MX-4. This is important because GPUs don't generally have Heat Spreaders and any excess paste on parts can cause electronic issues if it is somethign with conductivity or capacitance. Put the cooler back on carefully putting any thermal pads back where they were. You will often see a 20C drop in temps just from that.

If you are not comfortable doing that at least blow the cooler down with compressed air really well and consider installing afterburner or something to increase fan speed.
 
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Thank you guys for the great solutions i tried to clean the gpu fan and heatsink and replace thermal paste but the heat didn't drop that much i got the GTX 1050 ti 4gb now it's all better :)
 
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