Something causing my GPU's to hit 65 C on idle

[techkydecky]

I recently bought a RTX 3090 Trinity and noticed that the temps are 65 C and the fans never stop spinning even when I'm not gaming. I contacted Zotac and they adviced me to get my card serviced as there could be a overheating issue. Shortly after that i realized that my old MSI GTX 1080 also hit 60 C at idle. Is there a possibility that my system or OS is causing the issue or I just had bad luck with the 2 GPU I've gotten? Could anyone advice me on what to do as idle temp should be around 30-40 C right? i live in a country where my ambient temp are 30 C - 26 C.

I have tried DDU the drivers and reinstalling them nothing works.

I left my case open and the temps are the same.

 

[WhitetailAni]

What is your ambient temperature?

[Abzilla]

2 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

What is your ambient temperature?

it says 

 

12 minutes ago, techkydecky said:

i live in a country where my ambient temp are 30 C - 26 C.

 

[RageTester]

GPU could be getting hot air intake from other computer parts, or there might be a crypto mining virus...

[techkydecky]

4 hours ago, RageTester said:

GPU could be getting hot air intake from other computer parts, or there might be a crypto mining virus...

I've left the case open and I dint see any difference. 

[Stockholmes]

I would try reinstalling windows (if you can) and see if it helps any. If you can't, try DDU'ing the drivers first. See if that helps any?

[Mark Kaine]

5 hours ago, techkydecky said:

Could anyone advice me on what to do as idle temp should be around 30-40 C right?

approximately yes. 

 

So let's look at this for a second? 

 

first, your gpu is *not* idling 

 

1600+ MHz is boosting way above idling frequency. 

 

for reference this is idling 

 

 

 

Also im curious what's using up your cpu and disk... while "idling"? 

 

I would suggest doing a thorough AV test with malwarebytes, all disks, with root kit scan, full scan. (it's a free trial version) 

 

But also can you check this setting and post a screen shot of yours please? 

 

[techkydecky]

7 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

approximately yes. 

 

So let's look at this for a second? 

 

first, your gpu is *not* idling 

 

1600+ MHz is boosting way above idling frequency. 

 

for reference this is idling 

 

 

 

Also im curious what's using up your cpu and disk... while "idling"? 

 

I would suggest doing a thorough AV test with malwarebytes, all disks, with root kit scan, full scan. (it's a free trial version) 

 

But also can you check this setting and post a screen shot of yours please? 

 

Hi, everyone I just reinstalled windows and the outcome is still the same.

For some reason its even worst after reinstalling windows

[Mark Kaine]

22 minutes ago, techkydecky said:

Hi, everyone I just reinstalled windows and the outcome is still the same.

For some reason its even worst after reinstalling windows

Lol, all you needed to do is set power management to "adaptive" 

 

And uninstall this firestorm thing, those programs often are buggy, use MSI Afterburner instead, but more importantly set power management to adaptive or even "optimal power" 

 

 

[techkydecky]

20 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Lol, all you needed to do is set power management to "adaptive" 

 

And uninstall this firestorm thing, those programs often are buggy, use MSI Afterburner instead, but more importantly set power management to adaptive or even "optimal power" 

 

 

I managed to get the clock speeds down. Apparently by changing the led it somehow applies a OC to the card.(I'm not jking)

Temps are still not to my liking and the card still does a boost for no reason from time to time which increases the temps.

[ageekhere]

It could be the nvidia 460.79 driver, it is causing all sorts of issues

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/417924/geforce-46079-game-ready-driver-feedback-thread-re/

[Mark Kaine]

9 minutes ago, techkydecky said:

I managed to get the clock speeds down. Apparently by changing the led it somehow applies a OC to the card.(I'm not jking)

Temps are still not to my liking and the card still does a boost for no reason from time to time which increases the temps.

well at least something!  

[techkydecky]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

well at least something!  

At this stage should I go back to my local vendor and ask for a replacement or should i contact zotac instead?

[Parker1155999]

I had the same problem. (GPU running 65c on idle) I went to Nvidia control panel > Display > set up G-sync, and enabled G-sync on both my monitors (they did claim to not be verified as compatible) this immediately took my GPU clock and cut it to 1/3 of its clock speed and lowered it to 50c.