Graphics Card Overheating and Causing Freezes?

calmcalmcalm123 · February 4, 2020

Hi,

I built a pc for gaming with an Oculus Rift S. I want to play with high resolution, but my computer keeps freezing after a few minutes of gameplay. Among other steps, I used Open Hardware Monitor and my GPU gets up to 80°C and then the pc freezes. No other components get over 50°C.

So I suspect an overheating GPU is causing the freeze because: I set all the fans to 100%, which prevents a freeze for longer, but again, when it gets over 80°C it freezes. I also played with the case open, which keeps the GPU temp at 71°C max, and no freeze.

My questions are:

Am I right? Or could it be something else? What else should I check?

And, if I’m right, how do I fix the cooling? I’ve moved the fans around, and set the fans at 100%. Is this a matter of changing the case? Or is it even about going with water cooling? (That seems pretty intense.)

Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700k 3.6 GHZ 8-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo

GPU: Evga GeForce RTX Ti Black Edition

MOBO: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC

PSU: Evga SuperNove 750 G3

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB

SSD: Samsung Evo 1 TB 2.5”

Case: Corsair 110Q (It has one case fan in back.)

Two additional fans in front: 140mm Arctic PWM.

Thanks for your help.

Jurrunio · February 4, 2020

Surprised that it froze instead of throttling. I wonder if Precision X1 can show more temperature readings

Do all case fans speed up?

Tristerin · February 4, 2020

Well sounds like you have isolated it to the GPU (case side panel off, no problems, temps not hitting over 80c). Assuming you can keep side panel off, put it through its paces with benchmarks so we know its stable - it sounds like a case of getting a less optimal card from the manufacturer. If there was no Warranty I would personally just replace the TIM with TG Kryo to troubleshoot, or try an undervolt. But with a new GPU like that (Im not sure if OCing of any sort blows a Warranty on a new card) in its price bracket I would contact the manufacturer - but not sure how much that will help since it works open air.

EDIT - what is your ambient temp?

jones177 · February 5, 2020

EVGA 2080 ti Black doesn't throttle or freeze at 80c if it is healthy. At 100% on the power target it throttles at 84c and at 112% on the power target it throttles at 88c.

Here is a video on it.