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1 minute ago, Koka458 said:

My case is not even a case anymore. Both panel covers are pointless since cables and Hyper 212 takes all space.

Upgraded everything but the case years ago, bad decision. Even a modest $100 is case is too much for me. (Peasant gamer)

That's kind of odd. I guess if you're fine with the noise, those reference coolers sound like a jet engine at 100% speed.

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I still have a blower style GTX 760 in 2018 and it overheats like hell. Reaches 84' C instantly.

I use Zotac Firestorm to adjust GPU fan speed and I set it to 100% while gaming only.

Temps get improved slightly, about 70-74' C.

Is it okay to do so?

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If you can put up with the noise level of doing so, you should be fine.

 

Probably time to clean the heatsink and repaste though, my reference 780 doesn't reach even 80 while gaming

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

If you can put up with the noise level of doing so, you should be fine.

 

Probably time to clean the heatsink and repaste though, my reference 780 doesn't reach even 80 while gaming

I've done that actually, but I don't have GPU thermal paste and used CPU one instead.

And I don't mind the noise.

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3 minutes ago, Koka458 said:

I've done that actually, but I don't have GPU thermal paste and used CPU one instead.

And I don't mind the noise.

There's no specific thermal paste for GPUs vs CPUs, as long as it's good quality it'll be fine.

 

Did you blow out dust?

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you can do it, if you dont mind the noise and shortening the fan's lifespan.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

There's no specific thermal paste for GPUs vs CPUs, as long as it's good quality it'll be fine.

 

Did you blow out dust?

I opened the plastic case and brushed away the dust.

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2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

you can do it, if you dont mind the noise and shortening the fan's lifespan.

It's only while gaming[45-60 minutes] and I don't mind the noise.

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1 minute ago, Koka458 said:

I opened the plastic case and brushed away the dust.

Weird, those temps seem really high.

 

How's your case airflow?

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Weird, those temps seem really high.

 

How's your case airflow?

My case is not even a case anymore. Both panel covers are pointless since cables and Hyper 212 takes all space.

Upgraded everything but the case years ago, bad decision. Even a modest $100 is case is too much for me. (Peasant gamer)

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1 minute ago, Koka458 said:

My case is not even a case anymore. Both panel covers are pointless since cables and Hyper 212 takes all space.

Upgraded everything but the case years ago, bad decision. Even a modest $100 is case is too much for me. (Peasant gamer)

That's kind of odd. I guess if you're fine with the noise, those reference coolers sound like a jet engine at 100% speed.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

That's kind of odd. I guess if you're fine with the noise, those reference coolers sound like a jet engine at 100% speed.

It's fine. Thanks for the replies.

Time to sleep, its 2:00 am here. 

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14 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

you can do it, if you dont mind the noise and shortening the fan's lifespan.

Running fan at its rated speed doesn't shorten its lifespan. It will work same time as it would if you run it constantly at 100% or only speed up to 100% while gaming. Running it at constant speed that is considerably slower or change speed rarely might give bit more to fans life. Running it with voltages and speeds that are over what is rated WILL shorten lifespan and probably kill it very quickly.

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25 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Running fan at its rated speed doesn't shorten its lifespan. It will work same time as it would if you run it constantly at 100% or only speed up to 100% while gaming. Running it at constant speed that is considerably slower or change speed rarely might give bit more to fans life. Running it with voltages and speeds that are over what is rated WILL shorten lifespan and probably kill it very quickly.

I'm comparing 100% while gaming to say, 70% while gaming.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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5 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

I'm comparing 100% while gaming to say, 70% while gaming.

Still not shortening anything. Fans are rated to spin at full speed all the time, or probably also to do power-ups and power-downs like they would in normal use. Running it slower might make it last longer, but in real world use card becomes obsolete before fan dies.

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7 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Still not shortening anything. Fans are rated to spin at full speed all the time, or probably also to do power-ups and power-downs like they would in normal use. Running it slower might make it last longer, but in real world use card becomes obsolete before fan dies.

I never see fan life ratings for those on graphics cards, but hot blower cards like Thermi and Hawaii are killing fans before users replace them... Though cards get replaced just because of that, so you can kinda say the fans lasted as long as the card being used (by the first owner)

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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