Having some Temprature problems and i really need help!

[Tarroth]

First off i am not good at english so excuse my lenguage. 
 

The problem i am having is that my gtx 780 reference card has suddenly started so be at 50 degrees celcius at idle. My cpu is overclocked but the air from the case is used to cool it so the hot air from the rad i getting out into the room. My room is around 20-25 degrees depending on the time i have been in the room. 
 

I am open to suggestions reguarding how i can make the gpu cooler. I am thinking of maby applying some new thermal pase or taking off the cooler and removing the dust that migth have been building upp. 

 

Please help. I have never done this before and i am afraid to wreck the gpu. 

[Rorgash]

mine is at that or higher on idle and there is NO problem, simply due to the fact that my fan is running at 31% at those temps

[Majestic]

Did you, by any chance, added a second monitor?

[nanowatt]

Usually reference cards don't have good coolers and i don't think it's unusually to have these temps.

[SeanBond]

Set a custom fan profile in msi afterburner. Sometimes the card does not idle like it should and your pc will pump a lot more electricity into it than needed at idle and the fan profile is set super low for silence at stock. It's not necessarily an issue unless load temps are going past 85. Typically I set the fan to run at about 65% by the time it hits about 78C I don't mind the noise because it never usually gets that hot. Unless im playing crysis 3. 

[Clyne]

Well reference cards don't have good coolers and around your temps would be okay. You can clean the dust from the graphics card and reapply thermal paste if it would help by getting lower temps. I think you shouldn't worry unless your gpu around 80c or higher during full load. You can adjust fan speeds on your case and graphics card to see if it would your temps would be lower.

[Tarroth]

i got an fan profile and yes i added a second monitor to my setupp. My fan is also running at 50% at 50 degrees

And the cooler is good. Before i was a 30 degrees on idle with 30% fan speed. 

I have ramped upp the fans after i noticed how hot it was getting. It was a 5 degree difference.         

[KemoKa]

i got an fan profile and yes i added a second monitor to my setupp. My fan is also running at 50% at 50 degrees

And the cooler is good. Before i was a 30 degrees on idle with 30% fan speed. 

I have ramped upp the fans after i noticed how hot it was getting. It was a 5 degree difference.         

No, seriously, NVidia does high-quality reference cards, but the coolers on them suck. It's not a huge issue as graphics cards have a high tolerance for temperature, but it's still better to have a non-reference card.

[CyanOG]

My R9 280 runs 35-40 celcius at idle at 20-30% fan speed ... i would turn up the fans and sadly your card is a reference card so expect higher temps still though 50 is not tragic whats your load temps?

[Mick Naughty]

Perhaps its something else, I assume you never took it apart, you have cleaned it already and you have tried putting the default clock back on?

 

Even when I ran my card with three monitors it wouldn't idle that high, 37° max, 65° under load with the same room temps you speak of, sometimes higher.

[Tarroth]

I have turned it back to the base clock and is still at 50 degrees. And the reason i dident get a non reference card is bacauce i got it 1 week after it's release in norway.   And my load temps are around 70 degrees

 

I do think that i have to clean it for dust bacauce i havent cleaned it in 1,5 years. 

[Mick Naughty]

Well that's one thing I noticed, stepping up to a filtered case makes the inside maintenance much easier. Id also replace the thermal paste. I always do it about a month after initial use to really notice a difference. 

[Majestic]

i got an fan profile and yes i added a second monitor to my setupp. My fan is also running at 50% at 50 degrees

And the cooler is good. Before i was a 30 degrees on idle with 30% fan speed. 

I have ramped upp the fans after i noticed how hot it was getting. It was a 5 degree difference.         

 

Nvidia handles downclocking on multi monitors poorly, atleast it used to.

Last couple of drivers it appears to have been fixed. But check your coreclock during idle and compare it to single monitor. Good change it's higher, which means higher idle.

 

If this is the case, use nvidia inspector's multi-monitor display savings feature.

[UnknownDepths]

You could always take the cooler off the PCB and apply new thermal paste, I have a reference cooler myself which I replaced with a Windforce X3 cooler. The temps were bad considering they used so much thermal paste on mine that it went around the GPU core which was a pain to clean.

[Tarroth]

Majestic

 

Nvidia handles downclocking on multi monitors poorly, atleast it used to.

Last couple of drivers it appears to have been fixed. But check your coreclock during idle and compare it to single monitor. Good change it's higher, which means higher idle.

 

If this is the case, use nvidia inspector's multi-monitor display savings feature.

Theanks for the tip about nvidia inspector! It got the temps town to 30 degrees at idle!