Good Idle GPU Temps?

[AlgaeEater]

Got an MSI GTX 970.  Idles at 45c-50c.  Scale of 1-10 is that ok?  If not, how could I improve?

[blu4]

Depends on your ambient temperature too. The 45C is a bit on the higher side but nothing to worry about.

[Narnash]

Idle temps doesn't matter at all(as long they are near reasonable)

Most modern GPUs have a zero fan mode at idle resulting in "high" idle temperatures. It should worry you when you are idling and the fans still kicking in very hard, that together with temps over 50-60C and you would have most likely driver problems or bad applied TIM.

 

Temperature under load matters idle is just a gimmick "score".

[AlgaeEater]

Temps under high load (BF1, Overwatch) Hit a max of 70c

[Narnash]

47 minutes ago, AlgaeEater said:

Temps under high load (BF1, Overwatch) Hit a max of 70c

Totally fine temps, you shouldn't worry about them. You would even have enough headroom to overclock your GPU a bit, for extra performance ( as long as your CPU is fast enough to deliver enough data for GPU performance upgrades)

 

PS: BTW use quote or @AlgaeEater that way they get a notification and will answer you faster (or at least recognize that you ask them something)

[Princess Luna]

2 hours ago, AlgaeEater said:

Temps under high load (BF1, Overwatch) Hit a max of 70c

Anything under 87ish degrees is acceptable, problems start after this mark.
 

The idle temp doesn't matter as much as the full load one, even though 45Cº is a tad high for the common idle temps, if you're really only reaching 70Cº in full load there is nothing to worry about... do make sure if the GPU usage was on 99% some games will not max out your GPU usage resulting in lower temperatures, using something like the unigine heaven is the best for testing.

 

@Narnash I don't like this tendency of shutting down fans, I honestly can not be bothered by the fan sounds, if anything they make me nostalgic from my childhood with very loud IBMs, I turn this feature off through MSi Afterburner [;

[Simon771]

2 hours ago, AlgaeEater said:

Temps under high load (BF1, Overwatch) Hit a max of 70c

That's just fine.

50°C sounds kinda high at idle, but I don't remember what temps I had before I went to water cooling.

 

As long as your temps are under 85°C you are 100% fine.

[Shadow_Storm56]

3 hours ago, AlgaeEater said:

Got an MSI GTX 970.  Idles at 45c-50c.  Scale of 1-10 is that ok?  If not, how could I improve?

that gpu has the zero fan mode so idle temps are irrelavent. and that is a good temp for that card 

[Narnash]

13 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Anything under 87ish degrees is acceptable, problems start after this mark.
 

The idle temp doesn't matter as much as the full load one, even though 45Cº is a tad high for the common idle temps, if you're really only reaching 70Cº in full load there is nothing to worry about... do make sure if the GPU usage was on 99% some games will not max out your GPU usage resulting in lower temperatures, using something like the unigine heaven is the best for testing.

 

@Narnash I don't like this tendency of shutting down fans, I honestly can not be bothered by the fan sounds, if anything they make me nostalgic from my childhood with very loud IBMs, I turn this feature off through MSi Afterburner [;

I didn't invented zero fan modes  

It is true that zero fan modes "screw up idle temps". It's like comparing carrots with apples when you put idle temps of a gpu with zero fan mode next to the same gpu without an zero fan mode, just useless.

As long the temperatures don't sky rocket completely in idle there is no problem with a zero fan modes in generall till maybe 50-60°C everything under that, shouldn't harm anything and it is simply not worth it bother with it as long it don't sound like a jet engine.

I personally like a as less as possible fan speed at low temperature more than a complete zero fan spin (looks better and is easier for troubleshooting), but as I said I don't produce them and I also don't have to market them. 

[3 Lions]

My MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X idles at around 33c, when I play a game then exit to desktop it slowly goes down and normally sticks at 35c-36c.

[Shadow_Storm56]

39 minutes ago, Narnash said:

I didn't invented zero fan modes  

It is true that zero fan modes "screw up idle temps". It's like comparing carrots with apples when you put idle temps of a gpu with zero fan mode next to the same gpu without an zero fan mode, just useless.

As long the temperatures don't sky rocket completely in idle there is no problem with a zero fan modes in generall till maybe 50-60°C everything under that, shouldn't harm anything and it is simply not worth it bother with it as long it don't sound like a jet engine.

I personally like a as less as possible fan speed at low temperature more than a complete zero fan spin (looks better and is easier for troubleshooting), but as I said I don't produce them and I also don't have to market them. 

If it's -5 in ur house and ur graphics card ruNs at 100 on YouTub.... then you have an issue 

[Narnash]

10 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

If it's -5 in ur house and ur graphics card ruNs at 100 on YouTub.... then you have an issue 

Sure it is  

 you may know Lois Rossmann YTChannel, his garbage GPU on the recording PC crashes and causes bluescreens when it reaches 50°C he know that it's broken and since he only need it for office work more or less any spare GPU could do the job but he say he will use it till he squeezed out the last breath out of it