Hi, I after a long period of time no gaming wanted to start gaming again. So I opened my steam started this game called 'Hellblade: sensua's sacrifice' and opened GeForce experience to recommend me the correct settings. GeForce basically said just set everything to high on 2560x1440p . The game starts fine, but when gaming for like 5 mins the GPU start overheating (which is my term for 80 degrees celcius and higher) and at that point I am scared to continue because I don't want to blow the GPU up. I would assume my GPU would be able to do this game also my frames are between 60-80 on 256x1440. I have also tried it on 1080p but it shows the same result. Is my GPU too weak to handle the game or is there another reason for an overheating GPU ? These are my specs just subtracted from speccy: Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 @ 3.60GHz 41 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1070MHz (15-15-15-36) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME Z370-A (LGA1151) Graphics VG27A (2560x1440@144Hz) 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Gigabyte) 50 °C Storage 232GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB (Unknown (SSD)) 3726GB Seagate ST4000DM004-2CV104 (SATA ) 39 °C 476GB Crucial_CT512MX100SSD1 (SATA (SSD)) 37 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Realtek High Definition Audio

GPU overheating

By Swiebertjeee
August 19, 2020 in Graphics Cards

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1236349-gpu-overheating/

Go to solution Solved by maartendc, August 20, 2020

17 minutes ago, Ankerson said:

But it's not just the GPU inside the case...

If the GPU is 50C it will heat up everything else inside the case....

That's 122 F...

Around 30C is better....

You are wrong.

If the GPU is outputting lets say 50 watts on idle, then it is just adding 50 Watts of heat energy to the case. Regardless of the fan curve of the GPU. That is just the laws of thermodynamics.

You can have an aggressive fan curve, and have the GPU run at 30 C, or have a really relaxed fan curve and have the GPU run at 50 C idle. Heat output into the case is still exactly the same.

That being said, your temperatures are totally normal, don't stress about it. 50C idle is on the hotter side, but won't damage your GPU. 80-90C on load is again perfectly normal. ALthough lower temp on load will have the GPU boost higher and give you better performance, as GPU boost is a function of the running temp. So you will possibly get more FPS with a more aggressive fan curve. But also more noise...

good luck!

Posted August 23, 2020

14 hours ago, Swiebertjeee said:

Probably these days dealing with room temps of between 20-30 degrees celsius so no that is not helping at all. It might eb the case is not letting pass enough air in the small gaps it actually wants to draw air from but I am not experienced on airflows at all.

Pictures for the airflow as attachments, you can see the where the airflow has to come in the top and front is aluminium so no air passing there

Well I can see what the heat issue is...

With the AIO in the front all you are doing is blowing hot air into the case. The air is warmer once it passes through the radiator than the air outside of the case.

Cool air into the radiator and hotter air into the case.

So, you have 2 choices here.

1. Move the radiator to the top of the case with the fans blowing hot air out. Put 2 or 3 fans in the front blowing cool air into the case. That way you have good air flow, cool air coming in from the front and moving from front to back and the hotter air being moved out from both the rear fan and radiator fans.

2. Just put 2 or 3 fans in the top of the case blowing air out.....

Option one would be the better one with MUCH better airflow and will lower your case temps overall more so than option 2.

That said there are MUCH better cases with MUCH better airflow than the one you have so it's also something to think about.

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