New graphics card heating up

[Reddaye]

Recently my dad got me a MSI RTX 2060 Super Ventus OC. I've noticed it's been heating up quite a lot after playing some games, like it going up to 83 c while playing Black Mesa. It's also around 41 c when not doing anything. Is my graphics card not getting enough air? Or is the cooling on this card not very good or just faulty? Please help.

[martward]

About the idle temperatures: you should check whether the fans are spinning. Some GPUs have fans that won't turn on u til the GPU reaches 60C.

83 is the temperature limit by default, what it does is "overclock" itself until it either reaches a powerlimit or a temperaturelimit (83c). My gigabyte 2060 does exactly the same, it does reach 200mhz more than the advertised boost clock if I let it do that. I'm actually not sure if this means the card is bad, but it shouldn't hurt it since the "dangerous" temperatures are 88+ degrees AFAIK.

 

What's you can setup and case like?

 

[Slottr]

Ventus cooler sucks to begin with, so the temps are expected

 

83 isn't bad though. I'd start worrying if it goes up about 5 more.

[kelvinhall05]

83 is fine and probably expected with that cooler.

[Reddaye]

7 hours ago, martward said:

About the idle temperatures: you should check whether the fans are spinning. Some GPUs have fans that won't turn on u til the GPU reaches 60C.

83 is the temperature limit by default, what it does is "overclock" itself until it either reaches a powerlimit or a temperaturelimit (83c). My gigabyte 2060 does exactly the same, it does reach 200mhz more than the advertised boost clock if I let it do that. I'm actually not sure if this means the card is bad, but it shouldn't hurt it since the "dangerous" temperatures are 88+ degrees AFAIK.

 

What's you can setup and case like?

 

I got a small pc case that's fairly closed off, the card barely fit in when my dad replaced the old one.

[martward]

1 hour ago, Reddaye said:

I got a small pc case that's fairly closed off, the card barely fit in when my dad replaced the old one.

I wouldn't worry about it. You could install MSI Afterburner and set your temperature limit to 75, also dropping your powerlimit to 90 or something, but you don't have to. It's what I did for that extra peace of mind but it won't harm you GPU if you don't. You could also set a custom fan curve so the fans will blow faster and produce more noise. However in my case the latter option didn't lower the temperature but did just raise the clock speed a bit.

[Reddaye]

9 minutes ago, martward said:

I wouldn't worry about it. You could install MSI Afterburner and set your temperature limit to 75, also dropping your powerlimit to 90 or something, but you don't have to. It's what I did for that extra peace of mind but it won't harm you GPU if you don't. You could also set a custom fan curve so the fans will blow faster and produce more noise. However in my case the latter option didn't lower the temperature but did just raise the clock speed a bit.

Would turning on my AC help out? I forgot to mention it's currently Summer here in Australia and it can get quite hot in my room, maybe the room temperature is contributing to the heating? Sorry if that's a silly question, I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to PC parts. 

[martward]

1 minute ago, Reddaye said:

Would turning on my AC help out? I forgot to mention it's currently Summer here in Australia and it can get quite hot in my room, maybe the room temperature is contributing to the heating? Sorry if that's a silly question, I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to PC parts. 

Yes ambient temperature is a major part of you components temperature! If the air is hot that means the air the fans are using to cool your GPU is also hot. AC could help, but it could also just raise the speed of your GPU since by default it will just boost until it hits 83c or a power limit. But like I said, it's not dangerous and 83c is within specifications.