GTX 780 too cold?

[ASSympt0te]

I have had an EVGA GTX 780 for about a month now. In the time I have had it, before and after overclocking it, the card has not gone above 65 degrees Celsius. I have the GPU overclocked to 1.11 GHz, and the RAM clocked at 6.5GHz effective. The over voltage is +38. Even while running Fire Strike or Furmark, the card does not hit anything above 65 degrees. I am worried that the card is throttling itself at a lower temperature than what I specified (85 degrees), because other people seem to have been getting much higher temperatures. The graphics card has EVGA's ACX cooler, and is in a Fractal Design R4. I have 2 Noctua fans on the top, one is blocked by the CPU heatsink, but the other does provide some airflow over the graphics card. AIDA64 is saying that I am reaching my max clock speeds, but I am worried that my performance is still being throttled.

[AlwaysFSX]

@ASSympt0te They can get that cold, unless you have the blower card and not the ACX cooler.

[jmaster299]

I have had an EVGA GTX 780 for about a month now. In the time I have had it, before and after overclocking it, the card has not gone above 65 degrees Celsius. I have the GPU overclocked to 1.11 GHz, and the RAM clocked at 6.5GHz effective. The over voltage is +38. Even while running Fire Strike or Furmark, the card does not hit anything above 65 degrees. I am worried that the card is throttling itself at a lower temperature than what I specified (85 degrees), because other people seem to have been getting much higher temperatures. The graphics card has EVGA's ACX cooler, and is in a Fractal Design R4. I have 2 Noctua fans on the top, one is blocked by the CPU heatsink, but the other does provide some airflow over the graphics card. AIDA64 is saying that I am reaching my max clock speeds, but I am worried that my performance is still being throttled.

No, if you are reaching your max clock speed, that means your performance is not being throttled in any way. There is no other way for the card to limit performance beyond adjusting the clock speed. Most people who get higher temps have never set their own custom fan curve, or their are using a curve that favors lower noise over lower temps.

[KenXeiko]

i have a GTX 770 Palit Jetstream and i've had it for 2 months every game i play i stay at 39-47 degrees so why worry about yours? probably your temperature is fine since i haven't had any problems with mine just yet.

[Entropy]

GPU BOOST is all kinds of broken, but it shouldn't throttle at 65c. Throw the temp target to max.

[ASSympt0te]

Thanks for all of the help, guys. I guess it is just a natural thing to worry about everything when you spend 500 dollars on a part . I am getting 9516 on firestrike with an i5-4670k at 4.5GHz.

[aidenrelkoff]

colder the better, as long as ts not at absolute zero (-274 celceous) 

[elan2468]

colder the better, as long as ts not at absolute zero (-274 celceous) 

If it gets that i cold, i want it then im gonna OC the mother living FUCK outta that thing

[Ren]

Check NVidia Control Panel for power saving options. Turn them off/set to max performance or something, these will throttle your GPU instantly with furmark n shit but usually it'd prevent it from going past certain clock speeds as well as temp/% load. This will be recognized very easily on Furmark though. Dunno about Fire Strike or other benchmarking software but I think you'd know if your GPU was being throttled anyway. I believe if it were being throttled by software or anything like that, it'd go below the clock speeds you had when it was stock/fresh out of the box anyway.

 

Try reinstalling drivers (GeForce Experience and maybe the actual video driver if nothing else works), but there may not be any issue at all here. I don't have a GTX card to mess with but I agree with others that your GPU has just basically tapped out. I'm more likely to believe it's one of those cases where NVidia has a card that can go above and beyond what they limit them to.

 

Another thing is trying to change the fan speeds to something stupidly low n see where your GPU starts going in terms of temps. If all else fails, just open a thread on the NVidia or EVGA forums and see what people have to say there if you're still curious. I'm betting if any EVGA employees/whomever sees it, they'll tell you whether or not you need to RMA or what exactly is going wrong with temp reading.

[jmaster299]

GPU BOOST is all kinds of broken, but it shouldn't throttle at 65c. Throw the temp target to max.

If you bothered to read, you would know it's not throttling anything. He's maxing out the core clock on his GPU, that means nothing is being throttled. 65c is exactly the temp his GPU should running under load with a proper fan curve and good ambient room temp.

[Entropy]

If you bothered to read, you would know it's not throttling anything. He's maxing out the core clock on his GPU, that means nothing is being throttled. 65c is exactly the temp his GPU should running under load with a proper fan curve and good ambient room temp.

The guy was worried that it was being throttled, to which I suggested that it was not likely. 

 

Did you misunderstand me, perhaps?

[jmaster299]

The guy was worried that it was being throttled, to which I suggested that it was not likely. 

 

Did you misunderstand me, perhaps?

That is not at all what you said. You said GPU Boost is "all kinds of broken", which it's not, and told him to increase his temp target to max, which it already is at 85c. I'll quote you, again.

 

GPU BOOST is all kinds of broken, but it shouldn't throttle at 65c. Throw the temp target to max.

If you bothered to read the OP's entire post, and actually knew the first thing about GPU's and throttling, you would know that his card is not actually being throttled at all since he is still achieving his max GPU boost clock.

[LukaP]

If it gets that i cold, i want it then im gonna OC the mother living FUCK outta that thing

negative. apart from not booting when the chip is too cold (cold bug iirc) at 0K (unreachable) all movement stops, so you couldnt even make the chip do work (apart from it all being a bose-einstiein condensate much earlier, so not even a solid anymore)