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660 Ti Idling at 80C

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Could be that the thermal paste is totally buggered, could also be full of dust.

 

Take it out of your system and clean it properly with compressed air. If that doesn't work then you probably need to replace the TIM

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I've recently, (as in, the past month or so) been having occasional crashes when playing graphically intense games. After some perusing, I noticed that my GPU is idling anywhere from 70-85 degrees Celsius. Even when no extra processes are running, opening something as simple as chrome takes it to it's limit. All my drivers are up to date as of today, and I was wondering what could cause this? It is a three year old card, so I don't know if it's just given up. It'd be nice to know if there's anything to be done. Thanks.
PC Specs

AMD FX 6120 6 Core @ 3.5ghz stock
EVGA 660 Ti @ stock clocks
Corsair CX500 PSU
GIGABYTE M3970AM-HP Mobo
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

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Could be that the thermal paste is totally buggered, could also be full of dust.

 

Take it out of your system and clean it properly with compressed air. If that doesn't work then you probably need to replace the TIM

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I've recently, (as in, the past month or so) been having occasional crashes when playing graphically intense games. After some perusing, I noticed that my GPU is idling anywhere from 70-85 degrees Celsius. Even when no extra processes are running, opening something as simple as chrome takes it to it's limit. All my drivers are up to date as of today, and I was wondering what could cause this? It is a three year old card, so I don't know if it's just given up. It'd be nice to know if there's anything to be done. Thanks.

PC Specs

AMD FX 6120 6 Core @ 3.5ghz stock

EVGA 660 Ti @ stock clocks

Corsair CX500 PSU

GIGABYTE M3970AM-HP Mobo

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Have you replaced you're Thermal paste?

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1.) Clean the card
2.)Change the cards Thermal paste
3.) Check to see if the fan will spin on its own.

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Thermal Paste was janky, replaced that. Also did routine cleaning. Now idling at 32C and reaching 65C under load. Such an obvious thing to overlook. Thanks for the help.

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