GTX670 FTW

[Jakekuchiki]

Alright guys a few months ago I built my pc

 

i5 3570

gtx670 ftw

8GB corsair ram

1TB WD Blue

Asus H77 board 

TX550m

 

3 corsair SP120 fans and 1 200mm bitfenix fan in the front so cooling has not been an issue,

 

etc

 

Today I added a 80GB WD Raptor drive to my pc and nothing else has changed,

 

My GPU temps are easily 10c higher than before.

 

Nothing has changed besides adding this drive.

 

I blew out the whole card, took it apart and put some arctic silver on the gou thinking it might have messed up or something.

 

After all of that the temps went down a little bit, but I am still concerned. I am panicing because this 400$ gpu might be messing up and I would really appreciate some help.

 

Would adding my new drive really increase my temps this much? I can't imagine it would.

[ShiverMePenguins]

if you are blocking airflow, quite possibly. 

 

its a 200mm bitfenix fan, which in my experience 200mm anything is pretty horrible right now.

 

if you can, provide a picture of the inside, and if it seems like airflow is being blocked, i'd suggest trying some good sp fans, like the silverstone ap123, or noctua nf-f12. or even cooler master blademaster.

[Jakekuchiki]

Well honestly since it's the blower style fan it's just sucking air from the side panel and blowing it out the back.

 

The 200mm just moves a lot of air while still being quiet.

 

I don't know why you would suggest different fans. The corsair ones are respectable.

[josh_05]

What are the temps your getting under load and idle?

[killerx525]

The Raptor does produce a lot of heat hence increasing the GPU temperature.

[Jakekuchiki]

Well an example of it was 77c in minecraft as oppose to around 45c before. Changing the thermal paste did help and I guess the increase is the hard drive as it is close to the card.

[killerx525]

Well an example of it was 77c in minecraft as oppose to around 45c before. Changing the thermal paste did help and I guess the increase is the hard drive as it is close to the card.

Yep and it blocks the front fan hence reducing the airflow in the case.

[josh_05]

Hmm that's a big difference, I would not think that a bit of heat coming from a raptor could make that much difference... I guess one way to rule it out would be to take the raptor out and see how it goes. If it is the raptor you will have to look at your cases airflow options and see if you can improve it but to me it seems unlikely that it could have that much effect... Btw if your getting 77 in minecraft than I wouldn't recommend running anything demanding like the likes of crysis 3 etc until you resolve the problem.

[ShiverMePenguins]

Yep and it blocks the front fan hence reducing the airflow in the case.

which is exactly what i said. a 200mm fan doesn't have that kind of pressure. 2 120mm ap123's or corsair sp fans would be pushing at least the same amount of air at a higher pressure.

[killerx525]

which is exactly what i said. a 200mm fan doesn't have that kind of pressure. 2 120mm ap123's or corsair sp fans would be pushing at least the same amount of air at a higher pressure.

Yep but i don't think it would make a huge change in temperature.

[Emorphasis]

 

[Jakekuchiki]

When I took out the card the thermal paste might have come loose or something of the sort. After replacing it with arctic silver the issue seems to have resolved itself. I really  don't think airflow is a problem and even if it was the gpu is taking fresh air from out the side of the case and out the back. 

[killerx525]

When I took out the card the thermal paste might have come loose or something of the sort. After replacing it with arctic silver the issue seems to have resolved itself. I really  don't think airflow is a problem and even if it was the gpu is taking fresh air from out the side of the case and out the back. 

As long your GPU is within the temperature limit then everything should be good :)

[Jakekuchiki]

Alright guys I figured out the problems but I don't know how to fix it.

 

My 670 will almost never downclock itself to a certain point. it will go up to 1241mhz but it will never go below 850ish now.

 

This thing used to idle at like 30 degrees and now it's usually at 50 and I need to keep the fan speed at 50% to keep it under control.

 

I've tried the older drivers, got rid of EVGA precision, made it so it's adaptive on the power management part of the nvidia driver but nothing works.

[Jakekuchiki]

ALRIGHT I FIXED IT.

 

I had to download nvispector and followed this guide.

 

 

http://pcgamesbeat.blogspot.ca/2012/08/enable-power-saving-mode-on-nvidia-gpus.html

 

I finally got the damn thing to downclock to the right amount. I am very pleased.

 

I had to turn on "Enable multi display power saver mode"

 

This was a very tough thing to figure out but it worked.