GPU temp rises stupidly high/quick

[Juan Remes]

I have an MSI R9 270X hawk and i always have controlled its fan by a custom fancurve with speedfan (amazing piece of software). A month ago and just recently a few hours ago too, my PC went full black screen while playing some BF3 and didnt want to boot, a month ago i unplugged everything and then it worked fine. Today i had to take the GPU off the PC and plug it in another PC to make it work (i was thinking the GPU was dead because the PC really didnt want to post with it inserted)

 

I grabbed a 5450 and my PC did boot! Then i installed my GPU on my sisters PC and IT BOOTED UP. The next thing i did was to re install my GPU in my computer and it booted up properly. Phew that was a close one (or so i tought)

 

I went and fired up battlefield 3 again but then i went and checked the GPU temps, HOLY SHIT, IT WAS AT 90°C. And i really dont know why. My pc is really clean, the fans were at full blast, i just dusted it out like 2 weeks ago, and it is a 2 years old card, not that old for the TIM to be dried out.

 

Ok so i installed the GPU on my sisters PC again, after installing the drivers and everything i fired up the GPUZ burning test, and the temperature did behave properly! How it always had until recently. The GPU didnt went above 65°C. The strange thing is that in my PC, the GPU is freaking boiling, just by launching the Sims 4 menu, it rises up TOO DAMN QUICK to 90 to a 100 degrees.

 

Things that ive done:

Clean in any possible way the GPU

Update the drivers to the latest and greatest possible (not beta, stable drivers)

My mobo has another PCIe slot and behaves exactly the same

Make another partition on my Drive and do a clean windows install with just the GPU drivers, still the same result

Tried both Normal and LN2 bios switch options, not a difference

 

I can only think this is a hardware problem with my computer, because the GPU behaves FLAWLESSLY on my sisters PC
My specs are on my signature, my sisters pc specs are:

AMD Athlon II x4 2.8Ghz

6Gb DDR2

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

Cooler master 450w generic power supply

 

Here is an example of the behaviour on my PC:

And here is another example of how it behaves when in my sisters PC:

Any ideas?

[Lolucoca]

Chrck with a real thermometer if your card is really that hot... It could be a faulty sensor...

[don_svetlio]

Try a different PSU

Run fans at 100%

Make sure cooler is making proper contact

[ExozeGD]

this happend to me with my asus hd6970 (massive cooler) and it said it was at 100c. i've now relized that amd doesn't really have that good drivers and wont work properly. i suggest wiping the system of any old amd drivers and reinstalling them to see if it then works

[Juan Remes]

9 hours ago, Lolucoca said:

Chrck with a real thermometer if your card is really that hot... It could be a faulty sensor...

Im really down to this, i have been doing tests and i think this may be the problem, because the heatpipe doesnt feel much warmer in my PC than when in my sisters PC, at 100C it should be pretty hot to the touch. But i really does not know how could be this possible, the sensor is supposed to be mounted on the GPU, which behaves properly on another PC.

9 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

Try a different PSU

Run fans at 100%

Make sure cooler is making proper contact

There are different PSU on both systems, fans are at max speed, and the heatsink has not been removed at all.

5 hours ago, ExozeGD said:

this happend to me with my asus hd6970 (massive cooler) and it said it was at 100c. i've now relized that amd doesn't really have that good drivers and wont work properly. i suggest wiping the system of any old amd drivers and reinstalling them to see if it then works

i have a friend, and his 6870 suddenly started reporting 95°C constatnly under load and 50°C idling, the card died within a year, but i never touched the heatpipe of his card to ensure it was REALLY that hot, as stated above, maybe its a faulty sensor.

[ExozeGD]

1 minute ago, Juan Remes said:

Im really down to this, i have been doing tests and i think this may be the problem, because the heatpipe doesnt feel much warmer in my PC than when in my sisters PC, at 100C it should be pretty hot to the touch. But i really does not know how could be this possible, the sensor is supposed to be mounted on the GPU, which behaves properly on another PC.

There are different PSU on both systems, fans are at max speed, and the heatsink has not been removed at all.

i have a friend, and his 6870 suddenly started reporting 95°C constatnly under load and 50°C idling, the card died within a year, but i never touched the heatpipe of his card to ensure it was REALLY that hot, as stated above, maybe its a faulty sensor.

the 6970 with the stock cooler is supposed to get up to 92c and it's the same with the r9 290x

[ExozeGD]

10 minutes ago, Juan Remes said:

Im really down to this, i have been doing tests and i think this may be the problem, because the heatpipe doesnt feel much warmer in my PC than when in my sisters PC, at 100C it should be pretty hot to the touch. But i really does not know how could be this possible, the sensor is supposed to be mounted on the GPU, which behaves properly on another PC.

There are different PSU on both systems, fans are at max speed, and the heatsink has not been removed at all.

i have a friend, and his 6870 suddenly started reporting 95°C constatnly under load and 50°C idling, the card died within a year, but i never touched the heatpipe of his card to ensure it was REALLY that hot, as stated above, maybe its a faulty sensor.

talking about 6970s, mine just died lol. was gonna upgrade anyways but still. now i have to use my old gts450 ;-;

[ShaunC]

Is there any reason why the inside of your case would be hot?  Do you have the watercooling radiator installed in the front of the case?  Have you tried with the side panel off and a fan blowing into the case just to see if temps would drop?  Mount any of your case fans in the wrong direction by accident? I probably would try to see if you can cool the card down with an external fan and the side of the case open just to see if it is a faulty sensor.

[Juan Remes]

Thanks everyone for the help, turned out to be the GPU itself, it just died for good. Post is full of artifacts and what not.

 

I really really really really hope i can RMA it, im outside the US and shipping fares are brutal.

3 hours ago, ExozeGD said:

talking about 6970s, mine just died lol. was gonna upgrade anyways but still. now i have to use my old gts450 ;-;

LOL high five! im running a 5450 ATM.

[ExozeGD]

12 minutes ago, Juan Remes said:

Thanks everyone for the help, turned out to be the GPU itself, it just died for good. Post is full of artifacts and what not.

 

I really really really really hope i can RMA it, im outside the US and shipping fares are brutal.

LOL high five! im running a 5450 ATM.

good thing you found out before it fried anything, somehow an old 6970 of mine got an ssd to lockup and never want to let go. that ssd is now completly nuked to the point it doesn't know if it's an ssd or a piece of shit. that ssd is now a coaster, a kind of expensive coaster... (the ssd was a 240gb kingston)

[Juan Remes]

7 hours ago, ExozeGD said:

good thing you found out before it fried anything, somehow an old 6970 of mine got an ssd to lockup and never want to let go. that ssd is now completly nuked to the point it doesn't know if it's an ssd or a piece of shit. that ssd is now a coaster, a kind of expensive coaster... (the ssd was a 240gb kingston)

Yeah, lucky me it was just the GPU. I just got in contact with MSI, and my GPU warranty is expired. Shipping plus repairing costs are hilariously high so i think this baby will go to the oven, fingers crossed.