2070 Will occasionally thermal throttle when idle

[eastqrn]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this or know what the problem could be, any help is greatly appreciated

 

Every once in a while my 2070 will randomly start to reach temps of 80°c or 81°c while idle. All I have open is Discord and Spotify. If/when it does happen it occurs when I have had my computer on for a while, however 99% of the time this never happens and when it does it's just frustrating since I can hear my GPU fans start to spin really loudly every few seconds, which as you can imagine is somewhat annoying.

 

After a couple of minutes the temps drop back down to 45°c-50°c and act as if nothing has happened, very confusing.

 

Any ideas? Thank you for the help

[PDifolco]

Repaste time !!!

Maybe you're also having very bad airflow so the card keeps getting hot over time

[-rascal-]

More modern cards, including your RTX 2070, has a "0 dB" mode.

The fan does not spin up until the GPU, typically, hits 60*C+.

Once the temperature drops below 60*C, the fans will shut off again.

 

I'm wondering, whatever you are doing it causing the GPU to ramp up the GPU Core frequency / GPU Memory frequency / GPU utilization, making the temperatures jump; therefore, the fan to spin up.

 

@PDifolco suggested, you can try replacing the thermal paste on the GPU.

The other thing is to disable the "0 dB" mode.

If your RTX 2070 has a dual BIOS mode, one is usually "quiet mode" and another is "performance mode." Switch it to the "performance mode" BIOS.

Otherwise, you'll either need to go through MSi AfterBurner (or whatever manufacturer software your GPU usages) to disable it and set a custom fan curve.

[eastqrn]

4 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Repaste time !!!

Maybe you're also having very bad airflow so the card keeps getting hot over time

Ironically I purchased a new case a few weeks ago for this exact reason, airflow wasn't great in my other case hence the purchase of a new one, still does it, just confused as to why 

[eastqrn]

3 hours ago, -rascal- said:

More modern cards, including your RTX 2070, has a "0 dB" mode.

The fan does not spin up until the GPU, typically, hits 60*C+.

Once the temperature drops below 60*C, the fans will shut off again.

 

I'm wondering, whatever you are doing it causing the GPU to ramp up the GPU Core frequency / GPU Memory frequency / GPU utilization, making the temperatures jump; therefore, the fan to spin up.

 

@PDifolco suggested, you can try replacing the thermal paste on the GPU.

The other thing is to disable the "0 dB" mode.

If your RTX 2070 has a dual BIOS mode, one is usually "quiet mode" and another is "performance mode." Switch it to the "performance mode" BIOS.

Otherwise, you'll either need to go through MSi AfterBurner (or whatever manufacturer software your GPU usages) to disable it and set a custom fan curve.

I'll make sure to have a look. I never knew that modern cards wont have the fan spin until they hit a certain temp