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Currently my GTX 970 is idling at 59 degrees celsius, I havent done much intensive gaming, just web browsing and minecraft in the background, is this normal?

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If you haven't touched the fans in MSI afterburner, then yes. They have "ZeroFrozr" which turns off the fans when below 60c

 

Source: The box the graphics card arrived in, as well as being an owner of the exact same card.

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Currently my GTX 970 is idling at 59 degrees celsius, I havent done much intensive gaming, just web browsing and minecraft in the background, is this normal?

 

That's high if you have a good airflow case, but if its in a small case or you have poor airflow this can be normal.

 

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If you haven't touched the fans in MSI afterburner, then yes. They have "ZeroFrozr" which turns off the fans when below 60c

a lot of 970s have this, because they basicly dont make heat when idle...

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it is normal, mine idles at 59*C as well, when i turn the fans on to 25 % (minimum when using manual) they idle at 30*C which is 5*C hotter then room temperature 

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a lot of 970s have this, because they basicly dont make heat when idle...

At some point, running background processes (minecraft will do this too) will make it heat up, and even I (with a case full of noctuas) reach 50-60C at idle with their fan profile. I trashed their profile, decided to run 20% until 50C.

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That's high if you have a good airflow case, but if its in a small case or you have poor airflow this can be normal.

 

What's your set up?

Specs in desc

 

 

Is it a refrence card? And are the fans turned off? What are your under load temps?

Its a MSI card

 

At some point, running background processes (minecraft will do this too) will make it heat up, and even I (with a case full of noctuas) reach 50-60C at idle with their fan profile. I trashed their profile, decided to run 20% until 50C.

How do I do that :P

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Specs in desc

 

 

Its a MSI card

 

How do I do that :P

Download MSI Afterburner

Go to Settings->Fan-> Check "Enable user defined software automatic fan control" and fool around with the settings as much as you want. I recommend afterwards running AIDA64 for 1 hour including the GPU to test how high the temp gets under load - idle should sort out itself as long as it is running anything

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Its a MSI card

 

 

Yeah, thats not what i asked, i asked if it was a refrence card :P

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my air card idles at 34c my other is at 20-22c but thats on water . if you have the manual fan controls turned on  in msi after burner or evga's or any other you can set it to the default curve/custom one which starts at either 20-40% . if not it will be silent till it hits the 60c limit  then the fans will kick on to the 20-40% range

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Yeah, thats not what i asked, i asked if it was a refrence card :P

.-. ofc not :P

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Download MSI Afterburner

Go to Settings->Fan-> Check "Enable user defined software automatic fan control" and fool around with the settings as much as you want. I recommend afterwards running AIDA64 for 1 hour including the GPU to test how high the temp gets under load - idle should sort out itself as long as it is running anything

what do you keep your settings at

 

Are the fans idle when not under load? And what are your under load temps?

Finding that out

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