Fan Speed

[Flobberknock]

Hi Guys, 

 

I was playing GTA V for a few hours, and was monitoring my GPU with GPU-Z. 

 

One thing I noticed, was the obvious GPU boost throttling the clock speed when the GPU reached 80'C. 

 

The thing that confused me though, was that fan speed only went up to 70%. Never any higher. 

 

Is there any reason for me not to go into MSI Afterburner, create a custom fan profile and just have it go to 100% whenever the GPU goes over 75'C? 

 

I don't care about the noise as I always have my headset on which is pretty good at cancelling out background noise. 

 

 

[Levent]

Hi Guys, 

 

I was playing GTA V for a few hours, and was monitoring my GPU with GPU-Z. 

 

One thing I noticed, was the obvious GPU boost throttling the clock speed when the GPU reached 80'C. 

 

The thing that confused me though, was that fan speed only went up to 70%. Never any higher. 

 

Is there any reason for me not to go into MSI Afterburner, create a custom fan profile and just have it go to 100% whenever the GPU goes over 75'C? 

 

I don't care about the noise as I always have my headset on which is pretty good at cancelling out background noise. 

nope I would do that since you dont need to care about noise you might as well set it to %100 while gaming.

[daniellearmouth]

If you don't care about noise, there's basically no reason not to have it go to 100% when need be.

[Nena Trinity]

100% is only needed if the temperature is going to high... (80c is max...)

[Flobberknock]

Cheers guys, 

 

I've created a custom fan profile so when it hits 75'C it goes to 100%. I'll monitor and I'm interested to see if I start to get a more sustained max boost clock

 

If not, then I'll set it back to stock. 

[Praesi]

Just set a curve in Afterburner 10% per 2°. Should work fine.

http://imgur.com/qUSPj8u

[Avalen]

Well I think higher speeds degrade the fans a bit faster but by a negligible amount.

 

The sole drawback really is the noise.