So I brought MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB, and i have some questions about temperature limits and how fan operates.
I will start with the problem i faced to make me come to the conclusion that my PC is overheating.
I have had this Graphics card for a week now, and during this week i faced one problem that my screen would freeze on the last picture it stayed on, no sounds, no power to keyboard or mouse, fans are working but it feels like the computer has shut down or something. All i can do is to hard shutdown my computer from my case power buttons, and when i open it again it boots normally. This happened randomly ingame and not ingame.
The first time it happened was when i left my computer open during night downloading something and my screen after 10 minutes shuts off to conserve power until someone clicks on the keyboard or moves the mouse. So, when i woke up i found the screen stuck on the last thing which was black screen and nothing was working.
At first i didn't understand what was happening or why, and then it happened again ingame.
Another time, after I hard reset my PC, it just wouldn't boot up again. I looked at my motherboard and i saw this blinking LED on DRAM. I looked it up and found that it means there is something wrong with my ram. So, i thought maybe that was the problem all along. However, when i changed the ram slot i was using before it booted up normally. So, i put it back in the old slot thinking that the slot was damaged, and to my surprise it booted up normally too. This made me think that it wasn't a ram problem, or a VGA problem, and it was a temperature problem. The motherboard didn't boot up until it cooled down.
Also, i tested my ram using memtest and made like 1000 loops with no errors.
So, i moved my PC to a room with air conditioning. Also, I configured the fan control curve in MSI Afterburner to suit my comfort zone. Before that, on idle my GPU's temperature would be at 60°C , now it is 45°C when the air conditioning is off, and 40°C when the air conditioning is on.
When i am ingame it jumps to 50-55 at most according to the game.
Also my CPU temperature is 41 on idle, and goes up to like 50 on load.
Taking into consideration, i don't have an intake fan, only one exhaust. I left the case door open when i moved it. The weather conditions are normally hot here like 35°C to 45°C in summer. Also, I don't always have a good airflow in the apartment.
The problem is not occuring anymore too.
So my questions are:
- Was it really an overheating problem? Is there some kind of mechanism that locks everything until it cools down for safety measures?
- Without the fan control curve i set on Afterburner, the GPU temperature would rise to 60°C even in the room without air conditioning on idle. Is this normal because it looks to me that it is hot?
- Also, how does the automatic fan works without any curves being set? Meaning that my GPU is at 60°C why doesn't the fans operate faster to cool down to 50°C for example? Could this be a faulty GPU or just settings in auto fan and that i should just stick to my fan control curve?
I will start with the problem i faced to make me come to the conclusion that my PC is overheating.
I have had this Graphics card for a week now, and during this week i faced one problem that my screen would freeze on the last picture it stayed on, no sounds, no power to keyboard or mouse, fans are working but it feels like the computer has shut down or something. All i can do is to hard shutdown my computer from my case power buttons, and when i open it again it boots normally. This happened randomly ingame and not ingame.
The first time it happened was when i left my computer open during night downloading something and my screen after 10 minutes shuts off to conserve power until someone clicks on the keyboard or moves the mouse. So, when i woke up i found the screen stuck on the last thing which was black screen and nothing was working.
At first i didn't understand what was happening or why, and then it happened again ingame.
Another time, after I hard reset my PC, it just wouldn't boot up again. I looked at my motherboard and i saw this blinking LED on DRAM. I looked it up and found that it means there is something wrong with my ram. So, i thought maybe that was the problem all along. However, when i changed the ram slot i was using before it booted up normally. So, i put it back in the old slot thinking that the slot was damaged, and to my surprise it booted up normally too. This made me think that it wasn't a ram problem, or a VGA problem, and it was a temperature problem. The motherboard didn't boot up until it cooled down.
Also, i tested my ram using memtest and made like 1000 loops with no errors.
So, i moved my PC to a room with air conditioning. Also, I configured the fan control curve in MSI Afterburner to suit my comfort zone. Before that, on idle my GPU's temperature would be at 60°C , now it is 45°C when the air conditioning is off, and 40°C when the air conditioning is on.
When i am ingame it jumps to 50-55 at most according to the game.
Also my CPU temperature is 41 on idle, and goes up to like 50 on load.
Taking into consideration, i don't have an intake fan, only one exhaust. I left the case door open when i moved it. The weather conditions are normally hot here like 35°C to 45°C in summer. Also, I don't always have a good airflow in the apartment.
The problem is not occuring anymore too.
So my questions are:
- Was it really an overheating problem? Is there some kind of mechanism that locks everything until it cools down for safety measures?
- Without the fan control curve i set on Afterburner, the GPU temperature would rise to 60°C even in the room without air conditioning on idle. Is this normal because it looks to me that it is hot?
- Also, how does the automatic fan works without any curves being set? Meaning that my GPU is at 60°C why doesn't the fans operate faster to cool down to 50°C for example? Could this be a faulty GPU or just settings in auto fan and that i should just stick to my fan control curve?
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